Mick W@tson ↙️

Bioinformatics | (meta) genomics | Data science.
Some politics. Views are all my own and do not represent past, current or future employer.

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I have big news!

I will be leaving @roslininstitute and @EdinburghUni at the end of September to take up a new position as Principal Data Scientist at @DSM!

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@Dungarbhan The Greens game the system. This was never foreseen when the system was designed

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@garyshort @HughMcsween Creating a massive deficit in the process

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@HughMcsween Driven by massive public sector pay rises and a £5bn deficit paid for by English tax payers

[Conor Matchett @conor_matchett]

A note on Nicola Sturgeon's claim 'motor vehicle' expenditure would have been normal to see in the accounts.

She's wrong, and even more so given the campervan was listed *clearly* as an asset, i.e. something *owned*, not rented by the SNP

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@StuzMate The videos are there online of her denying there was an issue and discouraging anyone from mentioning it

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@meadwaj @ZackPolanski I think we're all in agreement here, EXCEPT for what we think constitutes a plan the bond markets would be happy with. I obviously didn't see the speech.

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@outofunion 60% in favour of unionism

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@meadwaj @ZackPolanski Well I think we'd all like to not be in hock to the bond markets haha, but it does require not having a large national debt and lots of unfunded spending commitments

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@ProfPMiddleton You guys really really hate scrutiny huh?

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@ZackPolanski It's so tiring when you smear every good argument against your undeliverable policies as "corporate interests"

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@jollyman56 @ConnorGillies @SkyNews She knew

[Dean M Thomson @DeanMThomson]

Worth remembering: after Chapman resigned in May 2021 as SNP treasurer - citing prevented from fulfilling his legal obligations - only 3 folk were capable of signing off the books: Nicola Sturgeon (the incurious), Peter Murrell (the criminal), and Colin Beattie (the retread)

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@staylorish That guy likes the limelight even more than she does

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@meadwaj @marcusveniquis Blair argues for rapid move to renewables and electrification. Do you disagree with this?

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@NeilMerriman @meadwaj Welfare spending including pensions is set to rise by £70bn in the next five years. If we were to introduce a wealth tax, it would immediately be swallowed many times over simply by this one thing.

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@MikeyTheBuddie Imagine thinking this was a logical argument 😂

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@staylorish @StephenJardine Car crash

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@Chrisviews43 @RupaHuq Voting Green will put Reform into government. That is very very clear.

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@bencsmoke The Greens offer zero change because they can't deliver any of their wild promises