Ben Procter

Change Manager • Represent @CoopParty on the @ScottishLabour SEC • Chair @ScotCoopParty• Member of @UKLabour Nat Policy Forum • 🏳️‍🌈 • Prolific traveller

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

@jonwillchambers He’s basically just agreed to the deal he already had?

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

Hey @ScotRail,
Does your new app really not accept Apple Pay?

Feels like yet another step backwards…

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

This means that whisky made in England is geographically protected and can be called English Whisky

Why is that an issue?

[The SNP @theSNP]

🥃 Andy Burnham has just given English whisky the same level of protection as Scotch whisky! 😱

MSP for Speyside Laura Mitchell explains why that isn’t a good idea. 👇

[Kumail Jaffer @Kumail_Jaffer]

The Mayor responds to Zack Polanski in Urdu

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

@samueljenkinson

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

I’m really glad that the UK government is funding this.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Paul Nowak is replacing Frances O’Grady, his predecessor at the TUC, who was appointed a Bank of England director in 2019 under a Tory government.

She in turn replaced Unison chief Dave Prentis, also appointed under a Tory govt. He replaced Brendan Barber (TUC), who replaced Bill Morris (TGWU), who replaced Gavin Laird (appointed under Thatcher) etc etc. This is not new!

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

@samueljenkinson Just remembering this for later

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

@DrDavidJeffery Is this a new one… I can’t recognise it

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

@samueljenkinson Honestly, I’d be more disappointed in him if he hadn’t. Hell, even Truss did.

[Peter Twinklage @PeterTwinklage]

consider how much more dire the situation must be if Dario, Sam, and Musk are all issuing these statements in unison

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

In other news, water is wet.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Florence Eshalomi says Reform UK seem to have problems with people who "look and sound" like Sagal Abdi-Wali, the party's Holborn and St Pancras by-election candidate

[Gail McDade @Gail_McDade]

Twice the number of reasons to https://t.co/pEZM86huQC

[Tim Stanley @timothy_stanley]

People said "how can the Lords reject/delay something the Commons wants: isn't that un-democratic?"

But the Commons, presented with the same bill, and having heard the Lords, thought again and voted it down. Ours is a deliberative democracy: argument, reason, checks & balance.

[Glenn Campbell @GlennBBC]

Andy Burnham has written to John Swinney to insist the subjects of independence and another referendum remain “off limits”.

[The Washington Sun @washingtonsun]

Welcome to The Washington Sun.
https://t.co/XpDhB9OsHY

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

@ColinBEdgar Can’t quite comprehend it. It just seems unreal.

[RNLI @RNLI]

Our charity exists to save lives at sea. Our mission is to save every one. Our lifesavers are compelled to help those in need without judgement of how they came to be in the water. They have done so since the RNLI was founded in 1824 and this will always be our ethos.

[RNLI @RNLI]

@Normanyodaism We're sorry to lose your support, Cyril. Our role is to go to the aid of people in danger on the water, without prejudice or exception, just as it has always been since 1824. If there is a risk to life, we will always launch.

[Chris Musson @ChrisMusson]

Good for bus passengers who finally get the subsidy train passengers already have. But nothing is free and it's certainly not SNP money. It's an additional £120million a year of taxpayers' cash, piled onto a £4.7billion projected Scot Gov shortfall by 2030. So, what's being cut?