Mark J Smith

Scottish. Born in Dundee, raised a Fifer. Music is life

#IndyRef2

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British Nationalists in Scotland who can't get their head around independence for Scotland because they think GERS is The Bible and that it's all about the SNP.

Your fantasy union is over.

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@WalkAlanWalk @ProfPMiddleton How do we know Baillie/Sarwar contacted the HMRC? "Scottish" Labour are otherwise known as Liars Incorporated.

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@ProfPMiddleton I'm sure the HMRC will drop everything to attend to a demand from the deputy to a branch office tea boy.

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@ColiMcchristie1 @PhantomEngineer @scotgov If we were independent, UK Gov would neither take nor hold nor spend ANY of our money we would be retaining everything. Maybe then we could budget for councils based on THEIR needs and not based on a budgets decided by Westminster.

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@ColiMcchristie1 @PhantomEngineer @scotgov so where does the Scottish Government get their budget from? Ta-daaahhhh it's allocated TO them by the UK Government.

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@ColiMcchristie1 @PhantomEngineer @scotgov It probably will be, when we have our first GE they may decide to splinter into other parties, or disband, or we can vote them out. The main difference will be there will be no LAB/CON/RFM British parties.

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@ColiMcchristie1 @PhantomEngineer @scotgov Maybe if we were an independent country there wouldn't be billions of our pounds kept and spent by another government in England,

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@ColiMcchristie1 @PhantomEngineer @scotgov ScotGov don't set Council Tax rates. The Council does that. Clue is in the name.

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@BeingScots When you order a "single fish" in Scotland you generally get
two battered fish. Supper is two battered fish and chips.

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@ScotsIndyTweets Another BBC "reporter" with anger issues. Between him and Andrew Kerr the snarling is not a good look.

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@thecourieruk Maxwell owes the public and The Courier an apology for such a dreadful straw grasping dirge of an article.

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@GeorgeFoulkes The Fat Controller speaks. I think that your first sentence is the key thing here, should be enough to convince Scots that we are being controlled and restrained by Westminster.

Thanks Pishy, you've just advocated for the independence of Scotland.

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@BBCScotlandNews FM has asked HMRC to determine whether there were any VAT returns claimed. Your headline suggests that SNP knew they were "illicit purchases" but claimed VAT back anyway 🙄

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@ScotNational well, he would say that wouldn't he. Like he has any say, he's even less important than Sarwar, if you could imagine such a thing.

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@GaryDalziel1 @msm_monitor @Irene60779832 We had a situation yesterday when possibly the most loathed party behaved more like parliamentarians than the usual Britnat contingent.

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@msm_monitor Slight correction - Findlay and Sarwar go on Swinney.

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@LivvyJohn @FrazJackson if that is so, how did "the party" know that they were claiming back VAT on goods bought through embezzlement. The poice weren't investigation tax fraud. This is what the FM has asked HMRC to check because it wasn't part of the investigation into Murrell.

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Reporting Scotland covered today's FMQ's by erasing the first and third questioners. The programme chose Sarwar and Findlay because it wanted to keep the Murrell attacks going. This is corruption.

The BBC is supposed to accurately report what happens in our parliament's main set piece, not manipulate coverage to create the false narrative it craves.

Moreover, this is now two weeks in succession that Anas Sarwar has led FMQ's news items. This is bias.

BBC ... Blatant Bias & Corruption #BlatantBiasCorruption

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Atrociously misleading wording from Laura Goodwin. John Swinney didn't admit anything, the FM revealed that the SNP had *pro-actively* contacted HMRC to check VAT claims hadn't been made against Murrell's fake purchases.

This is unethical and embarrassing from Goodwin. It comes on the same day Andrew Kerr asked if the Scottish Greens were the "SNP's little helpers". Are these people really unaware how juvenile and tawdry this is? Have they no professional respect?