Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @tonygurney Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

1 year

Scottish Government ministers travelling abroad to represent and promote the country is, apparently, a “jolly”. Tory Douglas Ross travelling to New York for Scottish week with no official role is, presumably, a necessary journey?

39

126

299

Last Seen Profiles

@Coach_MCollins

@TomHart99697994

@j_i_hamilton

@FAZ_Feuilleton

@chmpgnsoshalist

@avneetdhillon

@becca2uk

@NicoleEinbinder

@x3LUCKY3

@eamonnryan41

@FMGSuite

@LindseySmithAZ

@_kendimce_7

@GreatAlvierCR

@GerkenSascha

@booksss_da

@saint1jcee

@iammillestate_

@MdHasan77963800

@Josh_Lane1

@epongandam

@LCSBaseball

@wisbechrugby

@hinari_egg

@MillCreek_MBB

@Sheng_Peng

@UOCuniversidad

@_xa1f

@FoxcatcherBet

@EU_NO_MORE

@ming_m_m_

@_earlyworm

@theJJPerez

@hybrid_verlag

@Twinney_A

@sakusakratan

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 years

Every single member of the Tory cabinet with children sends them to private schools. Not one of those schools is planning on opening any time before September.

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

'We owe it to children to open schools.' Education Secretary Gavin Williamson insists that children need to go back to school and that is what the government are working towards. Read more on this story here:

584

52

295

538

12K

31K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

In today’s episode of “Totally Stupid Branding” we have...

307

621

3K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 years

Back in the real world, today five people died in Scotland from #COVID__19

BBC Scotland News

@BBCScotlandNews

4 years

Bar workers have dumped a large pile of ice outside Glasgow City Chambers in protest at the new restrictions on bars and restaurants

499

245

1K

134

429

2K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

11 months

The @CommonsSpeaker looks bereft as MPs endorse the #PrivilegesCommitteeReport . Not a surprise given his long record of indulging Johnson’s lies, refusing to make him issue corrections, and gleefully expelling anyone who pointed out the lies.

173

854

2K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

1 year

Dear Scottish Television @WeAreSTV , I don’t know how to break it to you but one of your football commentators just says “we’re going to win tonight” but Scotland isn’t playing. I know this will be embarrassing for you so maybe have a quiet word. Love, Scotland x

266

338

2K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

Shame we couldn’t tune in at 7pm to watch the whole game live like a normal country.

BBC Sport Scotland

@BBCSportScot

2 years

We would definitely recommend tuning into BBC One Scotland at 10.30pm to watch extended highlights of tonight's 2-0 win over Denmark 😍😍 📺 @BBCOne Scotland ⏰ 10.30pm GMT, Mon 15 Nov

38

10

81

18

194

2K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

Thanks to @BBCScotlandNews for ensuring a wide range of opinions on the #BBCLeadersDebate . We’ve had people who are against an independence referendum all the way through to people who are really, really against a referendum.

44

409

2K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

1 year

Kind of @BBCScotlandNews ’ Glenn Campbell to illustrate the FM’s point about the fundamental impossibility of getting a fair hearing with his final, graceless, pointless, hysterical intervention.

77

323

2K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

Credit to @UKLabour for excelling once again. Keith Starmer was even worse on the Sunday Show than anyone could have imagined.

66

319

1K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

267 days at sea. 749 days being repaired. £3.2bn spend by Westminster. But, “ferries”.

169

609

1K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

Today the SNP Administration in North Ayrshire approved over four million pounds in extra help for our citizens to tackle child poverty, food poverty and fuel poverty. This will be in addition to the millions of pounds from @theSNP Scottish Government. Notice anyone missing?

147

409

1K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

Thanks @BBCScotlandNews . In the midst of a deadly global pandemic I definitely didn’t want to hear from the First Minister of Scotland who has all the information and is integral to the decision making process. I’d much rather hear from mediocre journalist Glenn Campbell. 🤦🏻‍♂️

60

210

1K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

1 year

British Nationalists: Right lads. This is our chance. Hit them with everything we’ve got. Victory is assured. Scottish Voters:

296

395

1K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

Dear @BBCNews . He’s not the Health Secretary, he was the English Health Secretary. Happy to help.

12

214

1K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

It takes eighteen months for driver training. Blaming the people who’ve been in charge for three weeks indicates either lack of knowledge, in which case why comment, or bad faith point making. Which do you think?

239

339

1K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

Dear BBC, I am neither an MP nor an MSP. Neither am I the leader of a political party or have input into government. What time would you like me on next week?

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

3 years

Gordon Brown: Holding an independence referendum in Scotland during a pandemic and a recession "is not the right time at all" #indyref2

633

109

554

38

205

1K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

There’s that Andy Burnham on the radio demanding that Scotland be answerable to Manchester, aided and abetted by every corner of the media.

53

226

1K

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

The SNP win an election. @BBCScotlandNews report it with a clip of Nicola Sturgeon “defending” a spurious Tory claim followed by both Westminster and Holyrood Tories being given a platform to claim that an election win is not a mandate. This isn’t news, it’s propaganda.

22

327

995

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

Utterly bemused at the reporting of @bbcnews on the independent #HamiltonReport finding that the FM had unequivocally not broken the ministerial code as Nick Eardley posits that it will take a "few days to understand what this means". It means that the FM is innocent.

46

291

979

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 years

Leicester.

Jackson Carlaw

@Jackson_Carlaw

4 years

If the SNP is to retain the two metre rule while everyone else changes, it must prove to the public why it's necessary. Thousands of jobs in Scotland could be saved if the Scottish Government reviews the 2m rule.

1K

143

459

17

221

985

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

Yes, it's awful. Yes, he should go. But can we spend a few minutes exploring how Murdoch got video from a secure government building please.

58

234

985

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

5 years

I see that @KayBurley of @SkyNews is doubling down on her atrocious behaviour towards @IanBlackfordMP today rather than holding up her hands and saying sorry. Sadly not untypical of the type of metrosplaining Scotland continually suffers.

33

317

951

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 months

Business was ready. Recyclers were ready. Scotland was ready. All sacrificed so that Tory Westminster could prove that while they have no clue they have ultimate power over Scotland.

Cllr Anthony Carroll

@_AnthonyCarroll

3 months

Great to see Lidl opening up a Deposit Return Scheme across Glasgow for plastic & aluminium drink containers - making use of the infrastructure for the national DRS here & now 💚

2

137

395

257

427

976

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

The patronising “Scotland-should-be-grateful-for-what-it’s-given” mentality that’s been on display over the last 24 decades is the primary reason why we have such a large Scotland-Labour divide in this country.

Andy Burnham

@AndyBurnhamGM

2 years

The patronising “the-North-should-be-grateful-for-what-it’s-given” mentality that’s been on display over the last 24 hours is the primary reason why we have such a large North-South divide in this country.

1K

5K

34K

19

247

942

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

This “story”, from people who are actually paid to write, pretends that a non-existent currency created at an unknown point in the future after Scotland’s inevitable independence will be worth less than that used by the isolationist far right Tory run rump of the U.K. Laughable.

73

287

886

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

1 year

Scottish Client Journalists: The SNP is declining. Sturgeon is finished. Independence is done. Scottish Electorate: Well yes, we do support #independence , Nicola Sturgeon, and the SNP, thanks for asking. #56 %

65

251

880

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

1 year

Why do you think, despite it being Labour policy, and your MSPs voted for it, only the SNP have been attacked over the gender recognition bill? And why have you accepted the Labour Westminster attacks on your stance? (Just kidding. Of course @BBCScotlandNews didn't ask this.)

15

355

880

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

Later on @BBCScotlandNews we have an exclusive report as we interview Douglas Ross in a nice wee park whilst he tells us how he was right all the time and our reporter nods along totally “forgetting” to ask any questions.

19

253

829

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

Fascinating watching Andy Burnham continue his attacks on Scotland this morning, clearly calculating that his path to the Labour leadership depends on him being more of an English nationalist than Johnson or Starmer. #marr

772

218

742

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

Imagine thinking that this is such a great thought that you retweet your own tweet.😳

228

131

733

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

The year is 2054. Scotland has been independent for 29 years. Somewhere in a basement @alexmassie celebrates the fortieth anniversary of writing the same column for money. @BBCScotlandNews still invites him on as an “undecided” voter.

49

172

701

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 months

Did no one tell the KC it’s an enquiry and not a prosecution?

The National

@ScotNational

3 months

Nicola Sturgeon chokes back tears at Jamie Dawson KC's final question: 'The story of Covid in Scotland is the story of the hubris of Nicola Sturgeon, is it not?' 🗣 'I'm deeply sorry to each and every bereaved person'

199

67

293

238

182

710

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

If you’ve been told to stop following people because you have issues with the SNP then follow me instead. But be prepared for me to change your mind. #ScottishIndependence is the destination. The SNP is the vehicle.

30

140

675

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

The big take away from Cummings’ evidence? Every single thing the opposition complained about in Scotland was actually a consequence of decisions taken in Westminster by the Tory government.

6

257

673

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

6 years

For the avoidance of doubt - this programme, to feed school children during the school holidays, was an initiative from @theSNP when we ran @North_Ayrshire council. How do I know? I started it. @jeremycorbyn

STV News

@STVNews

6 years

Corbyn: 'We shouldn't have hungry children in Scotland'

44

5

12

21

508

647

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 years

In which a hard right newspaper asserts Scotland is Tory English property to be kept or disposed of with no regard for Scotland’s wishes. 🤦🏻‍♂️

54

293

623

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

Ooh. Ooh. I know this one. It’s because the cuts are actually to the Scottish budget, they’re made by the far right Tory Westminster government, and no one is surprised any more that @UKLabour shills are more interested in protecting the Tories than fighting for Scotland. Next?

22

226

622

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

1 year

Hiring this tired writer shows the Times is bereft of ideas.

192

103

612

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

Now @BBCNews are at it with their political correspondent saying that, “Nicola Sturgeon claims she has a mandate.” It’s not a claim, it’s a fact. That’s what you get when you win an election. Unless the Tory head of the @bbc has decreed that only the Tory opinion matters. Again.

5

165

547

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 years

So it turns out that despite @BBCScotlandNews previously saying that individual polls showing a lead for Yes won’t be reported but a series of four or five would qualify - they still don’t report them. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.

15

197

523

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 years

Scottish MPs don't get to vote on English affairs. English MPs get to run Scotland. It's time to leave.

Iain Stewart MP

@iainastewart

4 years

I have been appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland👇

588

60

511

13

267

515

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

Things Dominic Raab will use his phone for: Checking James O’Brien’s Twitter feed. Things he refuses to use his phone for: Saving people from imminent death in Afghanistan.

James O'Brien

@mrjamesob

3 years

Of course, he blocked me for compiling a few clips of him saying stupid things.

983

2K

21K

4

118

502

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

An explicit promise. A referendum. In this Parliament. Can we now stop bickering and get behind the independence campaign please. #indyref2

68

103

523

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

On #bbcpoliticslive the host allows the oleaginous Tory representative to make unfounded allegations regarding Scottish Government performance but stops @Dr_PhilippaW challenging the misinformation. The difference is striking and appalling.

11

215

501

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 years

That’s the Glasgow lab run by the Tory Westminster government. But you knew that.

BBC Scotland News

@BBCScotlandNews

4 years

#Coronavirus in Scotland: Testing delays due to Glasgow lab 'capacity issue'

104

14

40

7

253

491

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 months

I’m sure @BBCScotlandNews will be clearing the schedules to investigate.

The National

@ScotNational

3 months

EXC: Alister Jack’s deleted WhatsApps included messages to the PM about matters taking place in Scotland and to members of the Cabinet about 'specific policy' issues, it can be revealed. It comes after he told the UK Covid Inquiry he 'did not do Government by WhatsApp'.

128

666

1K

28

255

453

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 years

So on the day that #covid restrictions in Scotland are tightened @BBCScotland at the urging of far right Westminster Tories and sanctioned by the new Tory head of the @BBC decides to restrict essential public health briefings. They're not even pretending to be impartial any more

23

258

428

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

To be clear, and despite the label, I am not a Tory. I'm the man that upset a Tory from the @ScotTories by calling them Tories because, err, Tory is the name the Tories choose to call themselves. So they're Tories. I may or may not be taking this entirely seriously. 😇

33

90

424

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

Quite appalling coverage on @Channel4News there. Compare and contrast the simpering invitation to the rabid Tory British nationalist to undermine Scotland with the incredibly vicious attack by the presenter on Scottish independence. They’re usually better than that.

39

139

425

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

This is unacceptable and I can say that from experience. In my decades of campaigning for independence I’ve been physically abused and, on one memorable occasion, when at the polls with my family someone said, “You know your dad’s a c*** son?.” Where’s my article @thetimes ?

129

114

409

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 months

As an SNP councillor I am horribly familiar with the abuse I get when I post. However, the other day I was tagged by @MonicaLennon7 after a meeting we had with @lornaslater . To say I was unprepared for the underserved abuse directed at these women is a massive understatement.

140

74

423

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

11 days

Spoiler: She didn’t.

Carol Mochan MSP

@CMochan

25 days

Today I met with WASPI women from across Scotland including committed campaigners from Ayrshire. I will stand with the WASPI campaign, they have come so far.

112

15

40

8

214

423

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

In just over two months time council elections will take place in Scotland. Given the closeness of the @Conservatives and their Russian donors the @ScotTories must give a public guarantee that this money is not being used to fight their campaign.

50

191

398

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

Dear @BBCScotlandNews I’m calling for England to follow Scotland’s rules. Where’s my article?

9

115

405

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

I see that @BBCScotlandNews is maintaining their self imposed omertà on identifying the owners of Network Rail, the company causing rail cancellations. It’s the Westminster government. #RailStrikes

1

175

402

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 years

Scotland was denied information from Westminster that could have saved lives during a deadly pandemic. Shouldn’t that make the headline?

Glasgow Times

@Glasgow_Times

4 years

Not a single follow-up check has been carried out by officials in Scotland.

23

8

11

5

229

384

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

7 months

If you're wondering why @BBCScotlandNews is desperately trying to concoct a story around the Scottish COVID enquiry, to the extent of door stepping Jason Leitch, read this. It's distraction from Tory Westminster, nothing more.

BladeoftheSun

@BladeoftheS

7 months

The Covid Inquiry has revealed that genuine contracts were delayed and then cancelled so that fraudulent VIP lane ones could be put through. This explains the mammoth £14.9bn PPE fraud. Now it time to get all the money back and put them all in jail.

79

3K

7K

94

261

391

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

There are few more risible sights than a London Tory journalist, Sunak’s best man and husband of Johnson’s most high profile hire, completely failing to explain Scottish politics. I struggle to find a single verifiable assertion in this dire diatribe.

56

101

374

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

8 months

There’s an England Scotland game on @ITVSport and @WeAreSTV . The teams are being described as “we” and “they”. Care to guess which is which? #EverydayEnglishNationalism

99

121

369

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

There you have it. The @UKLabour representative on #bbcpolitcslive boasting that they suspended two councillors for refusing to vote for the Tories. We know where we stand. Time to leave. #Indyref2023

3

165

365

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

I’m confused. @BBCScotlandNews has just announced on the Sunday show that Salmond has not called on Sturgeon to resign. But @BBCsarahsmith was clear that he had. Who to believe? The @BBCNews or the @BBCNews ? Maybe @bbcpress can help?

31

124

356

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

6 years

So let me get this straight. @ScotTories @RuthDavidsonMSP , late of the Bake Off, had time to break cover to condemn @MareeToddMSP for making traditional Scottish tablet but keeps silent on the abuse doled out by her @North_Ayrshire councillors to @JoyOfTheSNP and others. Yes?

18

216

339

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

1 year

Hi ⁦ @timesscotland ⁩, The SNP administration at North Ayrshire Council alone is planning on building over 1600 new homes by 2027. Maybe you mean Tory England? Love, Scotland

78

170

354

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

Fact check: There are no @UKLabour councillors in Ardrossan. That’s why we’re spending over £170M in the town to upgrade facilities, improve the public realm and build new a leisure centre complete with swimming pool. That’s what happens when you #VoteSNP

Anas Sarwar

@AnasSarwar

2 years

The sun was shining on us in Ardrossan today. You can see in North Ayrshire what a difference Scottish Labour Councils make. Every part of Scotland deserves local champions to fight for their area. Vote Scottish Labour on May 5 to put your community first.

100

14

96

14

152

339

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

The fact that Sarah Smith is trending in the UK must surely give @bbcnews pause for thought as to whether she or they have any credibility in Scotland. But it won't.

12

107

330

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 months

I see that @SkyNews is continuing their boycott of the third largest party at Westminster in favour of a far right party that has never had an elected member.

104

156

332

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

Nice to know that The Spectator, led by staunch Scots Andrew Neil and Fraser Nelson, fully support staunch Scot Ben Wallace in his view that the British army consists solely of English soldiers and exists solely for English needs. Can we stop paying for it now please?

The Spectator

@spectator

2 years

'It's not our job if you can't run your health service in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon.' 🗣️ Defence Secretary Ben Wallace on the military being overstretched Watch the full episode 👉

1K

484

1K

16

137

318

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 months

For context this is the lad that got angrily upset that the Scottish Covid hospital was named after a Scottish nurse rather than an English one…

Douglas Alexander

@D_G_Alexander

3 months

In a Scotland where 250,000 kids are growing up in poverty & 860,000 people are on NHS waiting lists we deserve better than manufactured nationalist nonsense about cafe names. 17 years in power & this is all they’ve got to say. It’s just embarrassing. It’s time for change.

372

270

1K

77

103

320

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

If you’re wondering where @BBCScotlandNews get some of their pathetic attack lines I give you:

44

167

301

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

1 year

Nice to see @BBCScotlandNews covering all angles on Scottish politics by having a Labour _and_ a Tory newspaper writer commenting on #FMQs . Balance, BBC style.

16

117

308

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

6 months

It’s taken less than a month for this lad to go from declaring that he’ll stand up for Scotland to declaring that Scotland should do exactly what the Tory Westminster government does. That’s what you’ll always get from @UKLabour MPs.

Michael Shanks MP

@mgshanks

6 months

The UK Gov has announced 196 pools that have been awarded a share of the Swimming Pool Support Fund. Leisure centres in Scotland are crying out for investment but the SNP hasn't announced any similar scheme here, despite receiving £6m to do so. Why?

362

252

730

105

151

302

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 years

News values: A violent riot by far right thugs in Glasgow merits five seconds on @BBCScotlandNews whilst simultaneously characterising a peaceful demonstration as a "rival". This is truly appalling @bbc .

11

141

279

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 months

Unlike U.K. Labour the SNP has never formed a coalition with the Tories. So if you think @UKLabour won’t do a deal with the Tories at Westminster you should think again.

Guardian Scotland

@GdnScotland

4 months

Scottish Labour leader appeals to pro-independence voters to ‘boot Tories out’ reports ⁦ @libby_brooks ⁩

56

0

2

206

139

296

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

10 months

In their eight years in charge at Holyrood @UKLabour built precisely six houses despite sending £1 billion back to Westminster because they couldn’t think of anything to spend it on. They haven’t changed.

Tory Fibs

@ToryFibs

10 months

Holy Moly. Labour say £0.00p of taxpayers’ money will be spent building new homes for families. The Green Party pledge 500,000 council homes for ordinary people paid for by taxation. Which side are you on?

74

407

883

17

189

287

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

Pretend politician and democracy denier Keith Starmer being very clear that Scotland is only of interest if it supplies @UKLabour backbench fodder for Westminster. Scottish interests do not matter to his party.

4

119

282

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

The clear take away from Johnson’s interview on #marr is that he is clearly, undeniably, demonstrably thick as mince.

15

53

270

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

The ⁦ @guardian ⁩ continues its mission to systematically misrepresent Scottish politics. Today its thesis is that Labour have made “huge gains” and made inroads into the “SNP’s soft underbelly” by, er, making fewer gains than ⁦ @theSNP ⁩. Tedious and insulting.

19

100

270

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

5 months

This is why the SNP Scottish Government took the Scottish railway back into public ownership.

Prem Sikka

@premnsikka

5 months

In the last 10 years, £75bn of public money has been handed to train companies. In return people don't own a single train engine, carriage or a seat, but pay sky-high fares. Tories told us rail privatisation would end subsidies. They lied. Privatisation is a scam.

128

4K

10K

59

119

276

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 months

Even Carol of @BylineTimes and @GoodLawProject is at it. The Scottish Government did not make decisions on WhatsApp. They used recorded Government systems the contents of which have been supplied to the enquiry. It was the Westminster Tories that tried to hide their decisions.

114

144

262

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 months

What the Scottish press won’t mention - the dangerous state of the nuclear weapons infrastructure located closer to Glasgow. What the Scottish media will mention - mum taking her child on holiday. What would we do without them.

Robert Peston

@Peston

4 months

After the former most powerful government official has asserted that the UK’s nuclear weapons and defence capability is dangerously fragile, the government will surely have to make a statement to parliament. See attached from @Dominic2306

106

285

564

24

184

263

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

5 months

New @UKLabour leaflet through my door this morning.

59

106

257

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

For weeks @BBCScotNine majored on how the Scottish Government owned Scotrail was at fault for service interruption. The vox pops were universally negative. Now that it’s the Tory Westminster owned Network Rail the ownership is ignored and the comments are positive. We see you.

1

129

254

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 months

Interestingly the most taking part of this is @mrjamesob muttering, “I didn’t know any of this.” Whilst we are forced fed “British” news that actually only applies in England, people in England see Scotland in much the same way they see Lithuania.

LBC

@LBC

2 months

'I've just had enough James.' As the SNP deputy leader considers withdrawing the party's MPs from Westminster after the Gaza ceasefire vote chaos, Councillor Liz gives @mrjamesob examples of how it has 'overruled' decisions made in Scotland.

86

443

964

28

140

257

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

1 year

This is confusing. Every single media outlet was insisting that the FM was a terrible leader that everyone despised. You don’t think? I mean? It’s not possible? Were they just making it up? To suit their own agenda?

7

90

245

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

I’m from Scotland. I assume I can do whatever I want in Manchester. You know, the way you demanded the right to do whatever you wanted when you visited Scotland, in a blatant political stunt aimed at currying favour with a potential leadership electorate in your party.

Andy Burnham

@AndyBurnhamGM

3 years

In the absence of leadership from the Government … If you’re travelling on public transport in GM tomorrow, please wear a mask out of consideration for others 🙏🏻 We do things differently here and that means looking out for each other and not buying the “Freedom Day” rhetoric.

609

2K

12K

1

70

236

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 years

Johnson: Veiled woman look like bank robbers. Johnson: The Scottish Government are talking rubbish about face coverings. Johnson: We'll be announcing our face covering policy shortly. Media: Johnson is a God.

3

106

235

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

26 days

There are no British elections on 2 May. Do you mean the English local elections? If your U.K. output only applies to one part of your supposed coverage then say so. Stop pretending that English = British.

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

26 days

The deadline to request a postal vote for the local elections on 2 May is 17:00 BST today Find out more details

4

30

14

187

57

241

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 years

I can't believe @BBCScotlandNews are still doing this. Cutting away from the @scotgov #COVID ー19 briefing in favour of an English FA cup quarter final from 1985. #madness

23

128

223

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

8 months

But, but, the @heraldscotland 's client British nationalist journalist posted a snarky tweet that no one turned up. Who to believe?

Olaf Stando 🌻

@OlafSNP

8 months

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 What a bonny bunch of folk marching down Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, demanding Scottish independence in the EU. There’s thousands here at the @believeinscot march, with speeches from @HumzaYousaf , @jamiehepburn , @lornaslater , @ionafyfe and others. #ScottishIndependence ✊🏼

407

589

2K

43

89

215

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 years

Westminster government: A morality play in two acts.

3

156

202

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

9 months

Once more for those at the back. Scottish Labour doesn’t exist and Labour members in Scotland will do whatever their leader Sir Kid Starver tells them.

Cllr. Graeme Downie

@CllrDownie

9 months

Once more for those at the back. Scottish Labour opposes the two-child cap and the bedroom tax and it's an utter sign of desperation for the SNP to be saying otherwise. @mgshanks can deliver the change Rutherglen needs!

528

29

92

48

87

208

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

2 years

Anecdotally, I was told that people are stopping by the newspaper stands, pointing at @thetimes and laughing uncontrollably.

2

54

192

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

6 months

For the avoidance of doubt this is an appalling decision which is why it was taken by Tory Westminster and applies to the English NHS. Scottish data is not compromised in this way as it’s controlled by the Scottish Government.

Parody Rishi Sunak

@Parody_PM

6 months

Your private NHS data has just been handed to US spy tech firm, Palantir, as part of a £430m contract. Palantir have promised not to sell your data for profit because it belongs to the government, which must be very reassuring for you.

54

960

3K

9

141

192

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

Absolutely superb conclusion to the EU debate from @Feorlean today. The Scottish parliament will miss him.

5

30

190

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

6 months

Look. I know that the Tories were happy to let people die without making any attempt to save them but can we follow the lead of @BBCScotlandNews and go back to talking about iPads all day?

35

96

191

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

3 years

Cower? Cower!? I’m really happy this lad had mild symptoms but my family members who died didn’t. Nor were they cowering. They were simply let down by the worst Tory government ever known. Their deaths, and the deaths of tens of thousands of others, are on their heads.

1

65

186

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 months

Except, during @UKLabour ’s eight years in power they built seven houses in Scotland. In North Ayrshire we’ll build over 1600 in the next four years with a significant part of the cost being met by the SNP Scottish Government. (Around a third in our latest development.)

Anas Sarwar

@AnasSarwar

4 months

Scotland is facing a homelessness crisis but the SNP government has slashed the housing budget. This is unforgivable - we need action to tackle homelessness now.

199

35

105

55

99

187

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

1 year

Hands up all those who are shocked that the far right @bbc board member was able to pursue his own #Brexit agenda with the aid of a supine ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩. What? No one?

10

114

185

Tony Gurney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tonygurney

4 years

To be clear - Rod Liddle, Fraser Nelson and the rest of their nasty hard right clique at the appalling Spectator should also not head for Ayrshire. Thank you.

Coffee House

@SpecCoffeeHouse

4 years

The SNP's Kate Forbes has urged people not to head to the Highlands. What a ghastly thing to say, says Rod Liddle

463

52

106

11

58

173