Lindsay Hoyle began his second term as Speaker of The House-by allowing Nigel Farage to abuse & insult the previous speaker freely & without challenge-is this how he will continue?
Left: Nigel Farage speaking in Parliament
Right: LibDem MP Al Pinkerton explains how Farage turned up late, didn't have a seat, and the whips told him to vacate his seat so Farage could have somewhere to speak with a camera and microphone @AlPinkerton
Edinburgh Trams ... What the media won't report.
1. The SNP opposed the Edinburgh Trams.
2. The SNP wanted to dual the A9 instead.
3. Labour joined with the Tories & Lib Dems to force the SNP to fund the trams instead of the A9.
This is a public building. They’re charging £75 for a tour. We spend over £345m a year on the royals and are currently spending hundreds of millions on palace renovations. This is scandalous.
https://t.co/CU3fVlq5EG
“No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.”
—Labour's Aneurin Bevan, 1952
“You're there to make money.”
—Labour's Wes Streeting, 2024
https://t.co/5y6DN3MiTR
Just so we are crystal clear on Labour's attempt to destroy Scotland's North Sea oil & gas industry: https://t.co/xWpjK4wE9i The @scotgov has no power over our own oil & gas industry. ENERGY IS A POWER RESERVED TO WESTMINSTER. This is Thatcherism reincarnated!
Helen Whately. Shadow Secretary of State for Transport.
"Scrutiny is essential to good government, and I look forward to providing it".
She might want to scrutinise her expenses more. £39,000 per year in rent expenses. Yet she lives only 50 miles away from parliament.
#C4News
Living in Scotland where all this lovely green power is produced I want to know why I’m forced to pay £82.24 extra standing charge compared to central London? @faisalislam
Lindsay Hoyle ignored Diane Abbott at #PMQs, either he is a racist too or he ignored her because he was told to.
Either way Lindsay Hoyle is not fit to be the Speaker, RT if he has to go.
New Thames Water chief got £437k pay, including
£195k bonus for 3 months.
Previous CEO got £1.33m, including £446,000 bonus for the year.
Reward for fleecing customers, dumping sewage.
It wants 59% hike in bills. Wants regulator to be lenient on fines.
https://t.co/rBNhuDIA7T
We’re only talking about tens of thousands of direct and indirect jobs, the ability to deliver net zero, the economy and energy security.
A bit of clarity from Labour wouldn’t go amiss, particularly given the promises that there wouldn’t be a cliff-edge.
No front page for this 9 year old boy and distraught grieving father.
The media simply does not care about the mass extermination of Palestinian children and their parents
BBC Scotland has dropped the story that inward investment to Scotland last year hit a record high.
It appeared on the 06:30 edition of Reporting Scotland but was then dropped from the 07:00, 07:30, 08:00 and 08:30 editions. A major economic good news story suppressed.
We are only days into a Labour Government & Wes Streeting is already describing the NHS as "an economic growth department: https://t.co/01D32Lqbhm How on earth can you create economic growth out of people's health? Scotland has voted itself into an Orwellian nightmare.
Royal Mail to stop using its own freight trains after almost 200 years.
10,000 lorries will use roads, increase pollution, congestion and ill-health but company doesn't bear the social cost.
Done to increase private profits.
Govt committed to net zero?
https://t.co/KYb4r60XEx
'My Government promises to treat Scotland with respect'. 'I will end the Tory agenda of ignoring Scotland'. 'This is a new Labour Government committed to building a better relationship' etc, after meaningless etc... The guard may have changed. The disrespect not.