Alison Monk

Professional Shopper, Europhile, SciFi and crime fiction fan, occasionally political. No one is safe until everyone is safe.

[Alison Monk @AliLauraMonk]

@llihhcruhc1 @archer_rs Scots system is as pants as English, as no one concludes missives until last minute.

[Alison Monk @AliLauraMonk]

@wmarybeard @TheTLS Scottish bank notes have had wildlife on for years.

[Alison Monk @AliLauraMonk]

@ScotExpress So what has the party changed to make sure Murrell couldn't happen again?

[Alison Monk @AliLauraMonk]

@GHmltn Maybe he did it to himself as with all of the other damage he's suffered.

[Alison Monk @AliLauraMonk]

@GussieGrips @BrianSpanner1 Also there is the question as to why Murrels plea was conveniently delayed until after the elections in May. How dodgy was that decision given the lack of separation in powers.

[Mark Zegveldt @ziggy6769]

Just a thought if the SNP can’t be trusted to look after their own party accounts then how the hell is the taxpayer meant to trust them when they have access to billions of taxpayers money. No wonder we have a five billion black hole. The coffee ☕️ machine business must be booming 🙄

[Old Gassy @OldGassy1984]

Nicola Sturgeon finds herself struggling to log in to a website...

[Lissa Evans @LissaKEvans]

I have the last 2 proofs of 'My Name is MacKenzie Bly', which I wrote because I have always loved and cherished books that make me laugh, and I wanted to write something purely funny. I *think* it's for everyone over 11.
It's out in August. RT by end of tomorrow to win a copy.

[Alison Monk @AliLauraMonk]

@labourlewis To quote my 19 yo son he'd like to see a PM last longer than a pair of socks. This is self indulgent navel gazing by Labour which isn't going to do anything good for the country or their party.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote:

"Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It's true."

It's not true, it's utter garbage.

I'll go through facts and figures. /1

[Alison Monk @AliLauraMonk]

@edinhelp can the bin by the Barnton Junction bus stop on Queensferry Road be emptied please.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"SNP Government 'pressured' Scottish Water not to publish sewage dump data before election"

Well, well, well, would you look at that. What have they got to hide apart from 1,000,000s tonnes of sh*t?

https://t.co/zuw6Q46lWg

[Alison Monk @AliLauraMonk]

@Helen_Fields Anything by Terry Pratchett

[Alison Monk @AliLauraMonk]

@robinsall @SethSHowes Read Jasper Ffords Thursday Next novels, that has DIY biology kits.

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

1/3 The constant intrigue over Starmer-Mandelson is exhausting. We all know what happened & why. Starmer wanted Mandelson in the US because he was widely thought to be someone who could humour Trump & prevent him harming UK interests. Very few protested at the time.

[Lionel Barber @lionelbarber]

Plus ca change in Britain

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Just read it.

Spot On -

An Aussie reply to Trump’s rant about ‘NATO not being there for us’:

“Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.

You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.

Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.

Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.

And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.

And you're calling Greenland poorly run?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.

"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.

And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.

So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth.”

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

The 'Rhodesia Solution': How to use word tricks to 'disclose' a scandal to a Prime Minister while allowing him not to act. And to say, later on, that he wasn't really told...

[Gordon McKee MP @GordonMcKeeMP]

I wasn't born yesterday

[Alison Monk @AliLauraMonk]

@ziggy6769 Struggling to decide probably Libdem to keep SNP out locally and then Labour on the list.