Ben Procter

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

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

The proportionality may be true however the allocation is a political choice.

[Kevin Stewart SNP @KevinStewartSNP]

The SNP is not “proposing to take control” of any committee. The party affiliation of conveners and vice conveners are determined by D’Hondt to ensure proportionality.

Useful information here:-

https://t.co/jK3uO0D5qO

[Andy Wightman @andywightman]

Looking fwd to 1st time Swinney or Gilruth appear before Committee arguing that eg £10m grant to local authorities ring fenced for childcare can only be spent on childcare & not the general objects of the local authority contrary to the new SNP definition of ring fencing.

[Andy Wightman @andywightman]

@conor_matchett There is no requirement to use D’Hondt in the standing orders. Parliament should vote against the Bureau motion this afternoon and agree a more balanced apportionment of places with no party having both convenor and deputy convenor from same party

[Ian Murray MP @IanMurrayMP]

A truly wonderful friend.

A lovely tribute from @GeorgeFoulkes

https://t.co/THCXxnzSIk

[Paul Hutcheon @paulhutcheon]

Opinion | The SNP's Holyrood election win is tainted by the Peter Murrell guilty plea.

Scots voted on May 7th without the crucial knowledge of the former SNP CEO's corruption.

https://t.co/kKtS16SQvn

[Adam Langleben @adamlangleben]

An extraordinary woman, in the truest sense.
Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale z"l, diplomat, MI6 figure who handled Oleg Gordievsky, and Labour whip – obituary https://t.co/TLUqh1UifZ

[The Herald @heraldscotland]

Scotland's 'Queen of Spies', Baroness Meta Ramsay, a Glasgow-born former senior MI6 officer and Labour peer, has died aged 89

https://t.co/PXMkydizTR

@DonaldAErskine

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

It was an honour and privilege to have served alongside her on the Scottish Labour Executive Committee.

Her integrity, commitment and quiet strength will be remembered by all who had the privilege to know and work with her.

Rest in peace, Meta.

https://t.co/N4CNpqiRuH

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

Meta Ramsay dedicated her life to service and duty both before entering Parliament and throughout her time within it. Much of what she did for Britain will never be fully known, nor was it ever done for recognition or praise. It was done out of a deep sense of duty to her country

[Jacob Freedland @JacobAD82]

EXC

SNP funds embezzled by Peter Murrell included taxpayer money

Sturgeon ex-husband had access to £2.2m+ over 12 years from grants from the UK-wide Electoral Commission

Means bags, cars & jewellery and could have been bought with money from taxpayers, not just members

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

@Maureen4RHW Congratulations Maureen

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

They will not receive £10,000.
They will get given a loan for £10,000.

God forbid we fix supply side issues rather than throw good money after bad.

[Scottish Government @scotgov]

We're supporting first-time buyers.

Through our First Homes Fund, eligible first-time buyers will receive up to £10,000 towards their home.

Find out more: https://t.co/eh1xb7RrLs

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

“Restore power to Parliament” by scrapping the part of government that coordinates national security, emergencies and cross-government delivery? Absolute fantasy politics.

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

ANNOUNCEMENT!
Musical chairs in Downing Street don't matter when the real power sits next door at 70 Whitehall. Reform UK will scrap the Cabinet Office and the Cabinet Secretary and restore power to No 10, to ministers and to Parliament. Full policy document here: https://t.co/nKbWGhVOHL

[Jack Elsom @JackElsom]

Extraordinary that the Green Party thought they could get away with a statement saying he quit for “family reasons”.

[kate @leftinista]

This is a shot in the dark but if anybody would be willing to have me, I’m looking for temporary digital comms work this summer/ comms internships. Particularly interested in doing political digital communications & have experience with video editing & producing digital content!

I’m London based & am available for the majority of the summer. Please please get in contact if you are willing to have me- I would be so appreciative!!

[Ben Procter @BenProcter]

@ChristopherB_27 I hate that my brain has worked this out to the ward in both cases.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

If all of this has already been done how on earth is it going to take another decade and a half to build this bloody railway?

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

MPs' expenses pay for stuff for like their constituency office, staffing costs and getting to and from Westminster to do their job. Over 5 years, that's a lot of money. It does not go into their pockets.

Mike knows this.

[HOPE not hate @hopenothate]

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate, Rob Kenyon, had a SECOND deleted social media account, and the archived posts are damning.

https://t.co/sJTR1gl63y

[UK Prime Minister @10DowningStreet]

NEW: UK net migration has fallen 82% in the last three years.

We are delivering a secure Britain.