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Sam Taylor

@staylorish

2 years

Noam Chomsky tells an Edinburgh Book Festival audience that Vladimir Putin should be given the benefit of the doubt on his motives for invading Ukraine, and that he (Chomsky) supports Scottish independence. The audience, which must be overwhelmingly idiots, whoops and cheers.

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“So… what? We’re just meant to accept that a big kid did it and ran away?” Pointed questions from @GlennBBC and embarrassing evasions from @_KateForbes .

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Ian Blackford delivers the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe, by telling his “in conversation” audience that there are no economic downsides to Scottish independence.

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1 year

Lorna Slater today fled the chamber to avoid listening to Liam Kerr’s point of order, which cited irrefutable evidence that either Slater has misled the Scottish Parliament, or Michael Matheson has misled Westminster’s Scottish Affairs Committee. (Video part 1/3)

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Interestingly, many people (correctly) pointing out that Yes Scotland and the SNP had to be legally completely independent, to comply with Electoral Commission rules. @Ross_Greer might regret revealing the CEO of the SNP organised a pay rise for him at Yes Scotland…

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1 year

“Peter Murrell gave me a pay rise. That’s why he’s a hero.”

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18 days

Patrick Harvie refuses to accept that the Cass Report is a valid piece of scientific research.

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8 months

1/ Yesterday, @HumzaYousaf said that high energy bills in Scotland are “entirely linked to the fact that we are not independent”. This is straightforwardly false. A short thread…

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8 days

John Swinney really did not like that joke.

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15 days

1/ The curious case of Humza Yousaf and the Horizon scandal. On 6th February 2024, I received this FOI response, in which Scot Gov unequivocally stated that Humza Yousaf never received any correspondence about the Horizon scandal when he was the Cabinet Secretary for Justice.

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7 months

Extraordinarily childish behaviour from a First Minister. Humza Yousaf repeatedly refuses to apologise for calling Douglas Ross a liar at FMQs today. The Presiding Officer clearly not impressed.

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2 years

Number of times these words appear in the @scottishgreens paper on independence: border = 0 currency = 0 exports = 0 imports = 0 growth = 0 carbon = 0 emissions = 0 electricity = 0 net-zero = 0 imagine = 4

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1 year

People keep voting for me, so who cares about our record? Pathetic stuff from Sturgeon at FMQs.

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Kate Forbes throws Sturgeon under the bus over the unminuted “Gold Command” meetings.

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2 years

The maddest part of @Ross_Greer ’s pensions remarks is his analogy with the American Civil War. He doesn’t seem to know that the war ended with seceding states being reabsorbed into the Union - the exact opposite of what Scottish independence would be.

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1 year

Not sure panning around for that crowd shot was a particularly good idea. #AUOB Glasgow

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11 months

Farcical scenes at @SP_NetZero committee this morning, as Lorna Slater leafs through her notes for the correct answer to read out…

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1 year

Lorna Slater seems to be making a habit of running away from difficult questions… #BBCSundayShow

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2 years

1/ Remarkable FOI response here. Scot Gov admits it cannot justify a statement made by Sturgeon at FMQs recently, because the statement wasn’t true. Sturgeon has quietly corrected the Official Report…

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3 months

An ill-advised pontification from Nicola Sturgeon on the difference between “deleted” and “did not retain”.

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2 months

Bold decision by Jenny Gilruth to go on TV to discuss a report, and then admit that you haven’t read it. #BBCSundayShow

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4 months

Other revelations from Friday’s hearing have understandably grabbed the headlines, but this shouldn’t be overlooked: in June 2020 (ie during the first lockdown) Scot Gov cabinet considered how the pandemic could be politicised to restart campaigning for independence.

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2 years

Complete gibberish. The grid in Scotland is owned by two private companies (Scottish Power and SSE) who depend on cross-border transfers from English and Welsh bill payers for network upgrades. Independence jeopardises those transfers, and therefore jeopardises network upgrades.

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1 year

Ash Regan believes the UK Government produces the GERS figures. “We can’t stop the UK Government… but what we can do is we can develop our own set of figures” A candidate to lead the Scottish Government does not know the GERS figures *are* Scottish Government figures. 🤯

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2 years

1/ A remarkable torrent of lies from @LesleyRiddoch on @bbcdebatenight this week.

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1 year

For anyone trying to understand opposition to the GRR bill, this contribution from barrister Naomi Cunningham is very useful. (From yesterday’s Women and Equalities Committee meeting at Westminster.)

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1 year

Incredulity on #BBCSundayShow as Lorna Slater appears to be making policy on the hoof, 48 hours ahead of a key deadline on the Deposit Return Scheme. Everything is up in the air for small producers, but she can’t define what a small producer is…

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2 years

The most interesting thing about this is how easily Sturgeon tells an obvious lie. The promise was broken because it was a daft and unworkable promise. It had nothing to do with Covid.

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2 years

I asked @NicolaSturgeon about her broken promise to create a publicly owned energy company designed to help Scottish consumers with energy bills:

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2 years

Swinney’s remarks here are a disgrace. Firstly, he is wrong: GERS allocates >100% of net North Sea revenue to Scotland. Secondly, the total net flow is a fiscal transfer from rUK to Scotland: the opposite of his claim. And that’s after >100% of North Sea is allocated to Scotland.

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2 years

More footage from the 2014 vault. @NicolaSturgeon is adamant that there will be no horse-trading over pension obligations. She gives an “absolute guarantee” that the Scottish Government will honour the obligations. Something has definitely changed.

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2 years

Many people believe the word “net” gets @NicolaSturgeon off the hook here. It does not. She is lying. When the wind blows, Scotland exports renewable electricity to England. And when it doesn’t, Scotland relies on nuclear and gas, just like England does.

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3 months

Remember this spat? Even without any WhatsApps from May 2020, I think we can safely say that Sarah Smith’s report has been completely vindicated.

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2 years

1/ Bombshell FOI reveals Mark Blyth - high profile economic adviser to Scottish Government - came out for independence without having done any work. Blyth subsequently admits that he’s 🚨 “struggling to find the positive case that I hoped for” 🚨

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3 months

Hugely significant moment: Sturgeon flounders when it’s put to her that no written record exists of when, how, and why things were happening. Her defence: this doesn’t matter, because things did happen. Effectively an admission that document retention was inadequate.

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10 days

If I was a Scottish nationalist right now, I’d worry that voters might be noticing what’s going on, and concluding that independence would simply be the same shit-show, but with far less money to spend. And how many people are going to vote for that?

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Màiri McAllan says Scotland is half way to net zero *not least* due to the ScotWind leasing round. But none of the ScotWind projects have been built yet - their contribution to progress so far is nil. No wonder targets are missed when the Cabinet Secretary appears to be clueless.

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6 months

Anas Sarwar asks the First Minister about his record of misleading parliament. Humza Yousaf responds by saying that it doesn’t matter, because people keep voting SNP. Pathetic.

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3 years

Sturgeon always struggles with economic questions. On this morning’s Today programme she was embarrassingly out of her depth on the role of the Bank of England and QE. Of course she told lies, but I’m not even sure she knows she is lying. She might just be terrifyingly ignorant.

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2 years

6/ “I know that sounds like an extraordinary conspiracy theory” says @LesleyRiddoch That’s because it *is* an extraordinary conspiracy theory.

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2 years

Astonishing remarks from Alyn Smith just now on Sky News. He believes Ian Blackford actually deserves praise for one of the very worst aspects of his handling of the Patrick Grady situation.

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1 year

1/ Disgraceful behaviour from @AngusRobertson in the Scottish Parliament today, as he repeatedly refuses to answer an urgent question from @LiamKerrMSP on why he continued to push the bogus offshore wind stat *after* officials advised him to stop using it.

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3 years

Remarkable twist to the story in Angus: Tim Rideout taught SNP supporters how to game the Covid business support grants, and encouraged them to divert the money to his own group. He did all of this on Facebook, and boasted: “I have made over £50k for the indy cause today”

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3 months

“There was a hampering that would not have been there had we been independent.” An extraordinarily delusional remark. Furlough scheme was funded entirely by the Bank of England printing money. An independent Scotland, unilaterally using sterling, simply could not have done it.

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1 year

The SNP’s record of failure in government doesn’t matter, because people keep voting for us, says @AngusRobertson .

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2 years

Amazing. The SNP really is doing this. @NicolaSturgeon suggests English taxpayers will fund the state pension in an independent Scotland, and relies on erroneous remarks made by Steve Webb in 2014, which he subsequently corrected in this letter:

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2 years

And he actually did say both of these things in the course of one answer.

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2 years

So @Ross_Greer has quietly deleted his tweet about Ukrainian refugees, but hasn’t publicly acknowledged that it was false.

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11 months

Heartening signs of UK/EU cooperation as everyone agrees to laugh at Humza Yousaf.

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

www.thetimes.co.uk

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4 months

This looks like clear evidence that Ken Thomson (former Director-General for Strategy & External Affairs in the Scottish Government) was encouraging message deletion in order to defeat FOI requests. His defence relies on us believing he doesn’t understand how FOI exemptions work.

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5/ Which is interesting in light of his remarks today. Humza Yousaf could have proactively chosen to do something about the Scottish convictions back in 2020. And he cannot pretend to be unaware that the situation in Scotland was always separate to that in the rest of the UK.

Alan Zycinski

@AlanJZycinski

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NEW: FM @HumzaYousaf “utterly furious” UK Gov hasn’t extended legislation to pardon sub-postmasters to Scotland - accuses ministers of using Horizon victims as “political pawns”. “Outrageous…unfair…unacceptable” @LBCNewsScot

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1 year

Maybe, just maybe, if the SNP is lying to its own comms chief, it’s lying to literally everyone, about almost everything?

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1 year

In light of recent events, a brief update from me:

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1 year

Humza Yousaf quotes out of date 2020 figures at FMQs because the 2021 data is less favourable. The continuity First Minister means continued misleading use of statistics.

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1 year

Stephen Flynn at PMQs says average energy bills in Scotland are £1,000 more than UK Gov Energy Price Guarantee - an extraordinary claim recently splashed across the front page of @heraldscotland . These Islands has investigated it, and can find no evidence to support the claim.

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1 year

Fiona Hyslop repeats bogus SNP grievance about transmission charging and customers bills (at yesterday’s Holyrood NZET committee). The guy from Ofgem patiently explains how it actually works, and that Scottish consumers pay lower transmission charges than anywhere else in GB.

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11 months

Humza Yousaf’s “plan” is rightly being condemned as ludicrous. But worth remembering that it’s exactly the same plan Kate Forbes articulated during the leadership contest. And she is supposed to be the sensible one. There are no sensible ones.

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3 years

1/ How could @NicolaSturgeon be so confused about QE, as evidenced by her floundering interview on the Today programme this morning? Clearly Sturgeon is out of her depth. But so are the people she turns to for advice on these matters.

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4 months

Searching post-speech questions from @BBCJamesCook , to which Humza Yousaf had absolutely no answers. (1/2)

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1 year

Tough questions from @HTScotPol and tetchy responses. Is it really credible that Sturgeon cannot remember when she found out about her husband lending £107,620 to the SNP? (Second question in clip.)

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3 months

Jamie Dawson KC: “That review will not have access to WhatsApps which have been destroyed by Ministers and senior officials, will it?” Humza Yousaf: “No.” Jamie Dawson KC: “I have no further questions M’Lady.”

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7 months

The Presiding Officer threw Oliver Mundell out of the chamber in 2020, after he twice declined to apologise for calling Nicola Sturgeon a liar. Interesting in the context of Humza Yousaf’s behaviour today. He declined three opportunities to apologise, but was not thrown out.

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7 months

Extraordinarily childish behaviour from a First Minister. Humza Yousaf repeatedly refuses to apologise for calling Douglas Ross a liar at FMQs today. The Presiding Officer clearly not impressed.

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2 months

Perfect illustration of the WASPI grift. An MSP for 17 years. Presiding Officer of the parliament for 5 of those. And we are supposed to believe she just didn’t know about the equalisation of the state pension age? First announced by Ken Clarke in 1993!

Tricia Marwick

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2 months

When I started work at 16 I expected my pension when I was 60. I paid for it every pay day. Never happened. It was delayed and delayed again. 50s women are owed our own money. Don’t make excuses. Politics is about priorities. Give us what we are owed & what we paid for. #WASPI

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1 year

Population of Scotland = 5.5 million. For 600 million glass bottles to be littered every year would require the average person in Scotland to dump 109 bottles per year onto our streets, beaches, and parks. Obviously that doesn’t happen, because the majority are already recycled.

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@HumzaYousaf

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The Westminster Government is not just trying to scupper the Deposit Return Scheme - they're trying to undermine devolution. It's also really poor for the environment. If we don't include glass that's 600 million bottles that won't be removed from our streets, beaches and parks.

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2 years

Andy Burnham tells an Edinburgh Fringe audience that he asked to meet with Nicola Sturgeon during his trip to Scotland, but got no reply.

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1 year

This is no longer a story about the 25% claim. It’s now about the integrity and honesty of a Scot Gov Cabinet Secretary. Angus Robertson ignored official advice to stop using the stat. He has serious questions to answer.

SNP minister uses fake figures to inflate Scotland’s wind-energy potential

Angus Robertson ignored warnings and repeated a debunked claim that Scotland has a quarter of Europe’s offshore wind energy potential

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Speaking yesterday about the 60% of Scottish exports which go to rUK, @StephenFlynnSNP says: “most of it travels through to go elsewhere”. A conspiracy theory from the mad fringes of Scottish nationalism, repeated by the SNP’s new Westminster leader.

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7 months

“We must become ungovernable. We must make the economic and social cost of keeping Scotland in the union greater than the cost of letting us go. In short, we must be willing to adopt a fully treasonous attitude towards Westminster and the union.” Yesterday’s maddest speech.

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2 years

Have reflected on this tweet. I now realise how preposterous it was to suggest a Scottish nationalist might read a book about economics. I apologise unreservedly for the offence I have caused.

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2 years

When was the last time Sturgeon recommended a book that wasn’t a novel? Has she *ever* read a book about economics or business?

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3 years

Asked by @GlennBBC how someone who wants her to remain First Minister, but does not want independence or a referendum, should vote, @NicolaSturgeon says: “They should vote for me.” How can SNP votes now legitimately be used to represent a post-election mandate for a referendum?

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You are not going to believe this. This morning @Ianblackford_MP spoke to @KayBurley and explained the proposed SNP negotiating position. The SNP will demand to be “properly compensated [by UK Government] for the contribution that people have made in anticipation of a pension”

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1 year

Scot Gov gives ~£25m a year to “third sector” organisations, but it can’t identify those organisations and tell us how much each received, because retrieving that information would be too expensive. Interesting FOI response on a day when financial transparency is in the news…

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2 years

Sturgeon once again tells an unambiguous lie. Scotland’s energy consumption is not entirely from renewable sources

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1 year

This is staggering, not least because the motorhome was clearly recorded on the balance sheet in the 2021 accounts. How can the treasurer be unaware of the explanation for that line item? He signed off those accounts. His signature is actually underneath the balance sheet.

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1 year

Another day, another bombshell... SNP treasurer: 'I didn't know about party buying £110,000 motorhome'

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4 months

Remarkable. On the very same day that her Cabinet discussed politicising Covid to restart campaign for independence, Nicola Sturgeon indignantly denied that any such thing was happening. Clips from her daily Covid briefing on 30th June 2020.

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4 months

Other revelations from Friday’s hearing have understandably grabbed the headlines, but this shouldn’t be overlooked: in June 2020 (ie during the first lockdown) Scot Gov cabinet considered how the pandemic could be politicised to restart campaigning for independence.

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The snippets quoted in the press really don’t do justice to quite how devastating Jamie Dawson KC’s remarks were in describing Scot Gov’s interactions with the UK Covid-19 inquiry. Part 1/2 of some highlights…

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2 years

Angus Robertson accidentally tells the truth. The SNP doesn’t just want a second referendum. It wants a “rolling process” of endless referendums.

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3 months

Baroness Hallett is sceptical that cabinet minutes would record a conclusion with which Nicola Sturgeon disagreed. She does have a point there.

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5 months

Does Shona Robison actually understand how Barnett consequentials work? The fact that business tax cuts in England generated consequentials for Scotland does not mean Scot Gov has to spend that money on the same thing. That’s the whole point of devolution.

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11 months

Entirely false statement from @HumzaYousaf at FMQs. At year end 2022, total UK renewables installed capacity was 53.5 GW and renewable electricity generated during the year was 134.8 TWh. Scotland’s figures were 13.9 GW & 35.3 TWh respectively, so 21% and 26% of the UK totals.

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5 months

Worth rewatching this moment from a recent @ITVBorderRB interview, where @petermacmahon deftly identifies that Shona Robison has agreed to NHS pay deals in Scotland which she expects the UK Government to pay for.

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1 year

Justifiably furious point of order from @agcolehamilton , referencing my report for @These_Islands debunking a bogus claim about Scotland’s potential offshore wind resource, which has been repeated on numerous occasions in the Chamber of the Scottish Parliament… (Part 1 of video)

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2 years

A stake through the heart of the SNP pension lie. The UK Government’s Pensions Minister is unambiguous: @Ianblackford_MP , @_KateForbes , and @NicolaSturgeon are not telling the truth.

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Owen Jones invites Humza Yousaf to rebut the argument that Scottish independence means austerity on steroids. And he can’t do it. In fact, he doesn’t even try. This is why, despite repeated promises, the fiscal plan is still nowhere to be seen. It is too horrific to publish.

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5 years

This is astonishing. Grace Blakeley has written a book about financialisation and inadvertently revealed that she has no idea how a bank works, what bank capital is, or even on which side of the balance sheet it belongs.

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3 months

This is very silly, and more than a little sinister. I’m not a Tory, but Scottish Conservatives do exist. “Make Scotland Tory free” means fewer Scottish voices are represented at Westminster. Scotland does not speak as one, however much the SNP might prefer that it did.

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1 year

More like an extremely bad audition for an amateur dramatics production than a parliamentary speech.

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3 years

Yesterday’s Rally for Independence #AUOBFaslane looks to have drawn a crowd of as many as 10 people to hear the 18 speakers on the bill.

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2 years

Great to hear ⁦ @NicolaSturgeon ⁩ challenged on her lies about Scotland’s renewable electricity. Production & consumption are not the same thing - spot on from ⁦ @BBCLauraMac ⁩. And Sturgeon wants Scotland to remain in the single GB electricity market - very interesting!

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People checking the SNP conference webcast to laugh at how small the audience is realise they are the entire audience.

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Breathtaking ignorance. France has been able to cap electricity tariffs because state controlled EDF is overwhelmingly nuclear. Gas tariffs are up substantially because France relies on imports. It has virtually no domestic oil & gas production so there is barely anything to tax.

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2 years

Extraordinary scenes at #AUOBBannockburn . Watch until the very end, when the camera pans around…

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1 year

Believers in SNP spin that Scotland is self-sufficient in renewable electricity may be interested to learn that more than 40% of Scottish demand is currently being met by importing electricity from England and Wales.

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Yesterday, Stephen Flynn gave a speech at the Institute for Government, demanding the devolution of more powers over energy. Asked to explain exactly what he was proposing, he identified “the ability to licence”… something which is already devolved. 🤯

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Less than 24 hours after @JohnSwinney ’s 100% renewables lie, @Ianblackford_MP lies to the House of Commons. A slightly different lie to the Swinney version, but equally false. The SNP is institutionally dishonest on this issue, and nobody is holding them to account for it.

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It certainly isn’t true that Scotland has 25% of Europe’s potential offshore wind resource. But it may be true that one MP in particular has told 25% of the lies about this. The @StephenFlynnSNP supercut.

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3 months

Sturgeon’s defence that we didn’t need to see her WhatsApps, because she was always entirely honest at the daily briefings… is rather undermined by this irrefutable evidence of dishonesty at a daily briefing.

Ciaran Jenkins

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‘Can you guarantee to the bereaved families that you will disclose emails, WhatsApps, private emails if you’ve been using them. Whatever. That nothing will be off limits in this inquiry?’ My question to @NicolaSturgeon August 2021

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Sturgeon once again makes the untrue claim that Scotland’s electricity consumption is almost 100% renewable. Clip from yesterday’s speech in Washington DC.

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4 years

Eyebrows have been raised about this section of John McDonnell’s speech on Labour’s broadband announcement. A short thread on a massive error. (1/8)

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2 years

Good grief. Sturgeon cannot answer the most elementary of questions on the currency policy. This plan would be torn to shreds in an actual campaign, which is doubtless why Sturgeon doesn't really want a referendum.

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

2 years

"Can you name another country that does anything like that, other than Panama and Montenegro?" @C4Ciaran asks Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon about the SNP's plans to use the pound as an interim currency after independence.

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Scottish nationalist ultras have obviously had a committee meeting and decided the best way to win over the majority in Scotland who don’t want a referendum in 2023 is to shout at those people and call them fascists. I’m not entirely convinced they have thought this through.

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“How can we model something that doesn’t yet exist?” An extraordinary statement from a Scottish Government Minister.

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Sam Taylor

@staylorish

1 year

Angus Robertson yesterday gave evidence on Scot Gov’s promotion of Scotland internationally to the Scottish Affairs Committee at Westminster. He refused to answer questions on why, after officials him to stop using it, he continued to push the bogus wind stat to foreign govs.

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