@Scotgov making Scotland an international laughing stock in the Supreme Court - contradicting the government’s previous arguments from the GRR Bill. Ideology is now hitting the wall of reality hard. #WeKnowWhatAWomanIs
Given that we know that coercive control is something insidious and manipulative and that people often don’t realise they have been victims until years later, the Assisted Dying Bill is an enormous threat to vulnerable people. There are no adequate safeguards here.
Do the most vociferous proponents of assisted dying never pause to wonder why the majority of palliative care doctors - who do, after all, work with dying patients daily - are troubled by the prospect of legal change at the present time?
Doesn’t professional experience count?
As Alex is laid to rest in the Scotland he loved, & as his achievement in awakening Scotland to the degree that independence is now inevitable places him in that select pantheon alongside Wallace & Bruce, our solicitude & respect goes to Moira, his siblings, nieces & nephews. 🏴
@ScotNational We all know Conversion therapy isn't an issue in the UK. It's a false flag so they can attach a ban on anyone opposing their gender ideology.
'Scotland is a country not a county.'
Understandably, many of us are at a loss to begin to adequately describe what has been wrenched from our lives.
Alex was the natural leader of the Scottish people.
More than that, a hero of the people. He tried to appreciate everyone, saw the good in people, and gave Scotland a destination, inspiration and hope.
We will honour him.
Alex was the great political prophet of our time, sadly like another great prophet in another great story, he was betrayed by his closest disciples, denied and disowned by those that owed him most. None of whom could lace his boots.
We will remember.
Fin ye drive across a bridge wi oot having tae pey, hae a wee smile and thank Alex.
Fin yer bairn grows up and goes tae university and disna pey fir a degree, smile n thank Alex.
Fan you dinna hae to pey for your NHS prescriptions...smile and thank Alex.
Files ye drive effortlessly roon the Aiberdeen bypass, smile thank Alex.
When you party in the street on Independence Day, on a new chapter o' Scottish history, 'Prosperity for Scotland'.... Smile and thank Alex Salmond.
The future is ours if we follow his example and deliver the dream.
We owe it to future generations. We owe it to his memory and all those that went before him. We owe it to ourselves.
Our hearts go out to Moira and the family and his many closest friends who worked with him daily to deliver good, for all of us.
Please try to take some comfort in knowing that a nation grieves with you.
'The Dream will never die.'
Charlie Abel
ALBA Aberdeen
It is BECAUSE the SNP made a lurch to the Green/Progressive/Woke that they collapsed. The appointment of extremists like Mhairi Black is one of the reasons I, as an SNP supporter, did not vote for them. And there were thousands of others. Mhairi lives in a fantasy world. Time for the SNP to get real
@SophieMolly_OFF There’s no such thing as “Trans Kids”. And puberty blockers are not safe. You are disturbed and possessed by an empty ideology that will never truly bring you peace. Repent.
“But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’”
-Mark 10:6
Fascinating Joanna Cherry-Nicola Sturgeon exchange on @ITV on why the SNP has suffered such a huge reverse. Cherry identifies the style of Sturgeon's leadership allowing no space for debate & discussion. Can't help feel this is a fair summation of the Sturgeon years.
Here’s some free advice for the SNP:
Drop the gender nonsense and cut yourself away from the Greens.
Lose Swinney and the rest of the devolutionists.
Start campaigning honestly and constructively for independence and for God’s sake reconcile with Alex Salmond.
No, you failed because you turned your back on independence. You failed because you became obsessed with student identity politics. You failed because you haven't delivered competent grown-up governance. You failed because you maliciously went after capable people that weren't "on message". You failed because you rewarded loyalty over ability. You failed because of hubris and complacency. You failed because you are a failure, we saw it in 2004 and we're seeing it again 20 years later.
Wee reminder we're not voting the Tories out in Scotland tomorrow cos they were never in. They haven't won an election here since the 1950s. All the years of Tory rule, all the harm they've wreaked, is because Scotland is part of the UK and gets the governments England votes for.