Steph

[The Indy Poet @TheIndyPoet]

Vote Labour and you'll get an English First Party. Now that's fine if you're in England but NOT if you're a Scot and want Scotland First.

Think WASPI
GB Energy
Lower Energy Bills
Grangemouth
Mosmorran
Faslane Leaks
Edinburgh Computer
£1.5bn Cancelled Chinese Investment
etc
etc

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

MI6 USED TORTURE CONFESSIONS

Craig Murray (@CraigMurrayOrg) was Britain's Ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2002 to 2004. What he found there was a dictatorship where people were boiled alive, tortured, and then had their confessions handed to MI6 and the CIA as usable intelligence.

Murray did what you're supposed to do. He wrote formal complaints to the Foreign Office. He said, on the record, that it is morally and legally wrong to take intelligence extracted under torture. He highlighted a case where two men were boiled to death and the evidence pointed straight at state-sanctioned murder.

The Foreign Office's response was to summon him back to London, hit him with 18 disciplinary charges, and tell him to resign. He refused. The charges were quietly dropped. Then they removed him from his post anyway in October 2004. Just in case you thought the message got lost.

While the allegations were eventually dropped, Murray suffered a breakdown and a pulmonary embolism in the process. The British state didn't just end his career. It nearly ended his life.

His internal document, later leaked to the Financial Times, confirmed that MI6 was using CIA-sourced intelligence obtained from Uzbek authorities through torture. It was written down. By an ambassador. And the response was to destroy the man who wrote it.

Murray's superiors were told in plain terms that this intelligence was unreliable because it had been obtained through torture. They used it anyway. Then they smeared him in the press as a drunk and a rogue diplomat.

He subsequently wrote Murder in Samarkand, a memoir that blew the whole thing open. He won the Sam Adams Award for integrity in intelligence. The US government later denied him entry under the visa waiver programme with no stated reason. The only countries that had ever barred him from entry were Uzbekistan and the United States of America. Think about that for a second.

This is what whistleblowing in the national security space actually looks like. Not a Hollywood ending.

Source: @Wikipedia @guardian @BBCNews @Channel4News

[Al Morrison @AlMorrison14]

Swinney tries to advocate subsidised/fixed rates of basic foodstuffs for those in poverty and its roundly condemned
Highlighting subsidised meals & Alcohol in Westminster for rich politicians & their “guests” during working hours and the political elite loose their shit
Wankers

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer.

Why? Or, more to the point, how?

Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt.

But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR
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[Abier @abierkhatib]

They’ve basically treated the war crimes manual like a checklist, gone thro it line by line, crossed off every point, then even started inventing new crimes that weren’t on any list before. Fking monsters

Israel booby-trapped children’s toys in Nabatieh/Lebanon 1974

[C Roberts(tweets from a colonised Scotland) @CRobertsonUK]

In 79 it wasn't the 11 SNP MPs out of 750 that ushered in Thatcher, it was Labour betraying the unions pay demands, Labour rigging a devo ref to deny us the result thus losing the SNP MPs backing, and where England and only England voted for a Tory Govt.

Know Labour's history.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Nearly six months on - and people still are unaware of this

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein https://t.co/VGkeyqDYJY

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Hannah Spencer speaking to PoliticsJOE,

"You can smell the alcohol when people are in-between votes"

"As everyone is going in to vote, some people have been drinking in-between"

"I can't imagine if a cleaner did that, or someone working in a bank, had a few drinks then went back to work smelling of alcohol. That wouldn't happen"

"So many recent cases of questionable behaviour allegedly from MPs, an unprofessional culture. Life doesn't work like that"

"Why does this happen where some of the most important decisions are made?"

"I wasn't prepared for what goes on in the rest of the chamber where there is a lot of jeering going on from different sides of the bench"

"It is like a pantomime, like a laugh and a joke"

"We're making decisions about people's lives, we're here to do a job and to serve people"

"And it just feels like a pantomime"

"If we were having a team meeting we wouldn't be able to behave like that, so why is it happening in Westminster?"

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Nurses work 15 hours day at times, should they be allowed to drink at work?

Absolutely not.

It’s time to end the days of politicians and journalists drinking their way round west minister when they should be doing their respective jobs.

[JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @MrJohnNicolson]

Pretty desperate stuff from Anas Sarwar & Scottish Labour. #SP26

[John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) @Harryslaststand]

British MPs want to drink during the day and have their housing expenses covered by the state. Sounds to me like they are the real benefits cheats.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

THIS IS HOW YOU INTERVIEW TRUMP AND SHOW THE WORLD WHO AND WHAT HE IS ✊✊✊✊

[Council Estate Media @cem_uk_]

Call me crazy, but I don't think there should be a bar in parliament, tax-payer funded or not. I think any politician who goes into work drunk, should be kicked out of their job, same as they would be in literally any other job.

[wullieforindy(extremist)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤝🇪🇺🤝🇺🇦 @iammockatory]

@johnadgrady @ScottishLabour Do you think the change they want is private healthcare John?
How are you going to promote that to the people who voted for you ?
They’ll tell you where to stick that proposal

[Kevin Stewart SNP @KevinStewartSNP]

As Scotland’s Housing Minister between 2016 & 2022, I delivered more affordable housing in Scotland than any other who held the post since devolution.

Scotland under the SNP has delivered more affordable housing per head of population than Labour controlled Wales by a long shot.

[John Stealer @JohnStealer]

This is Dan Tomlinson. @ChippingLabour MP pictured in Israel.

He says

“How The Labour Party can take inspiration from Israel”

Inspiration from what?

1 - Sniping children in the head

2 - Training dogs to rape Palestinian hostages

3 - Murdering journalists

Do ask him.

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

Far from being dull this Scottish election is fascinating. A majority for the SNP is within reach. Sarwar is in a desperate contest with Reform for 2nd place with the Greens not out of it altogether. We’re seeing the death of the Tories and Starmer’s woes are adding extra spice.

Any journalist claiming this is dull and boring is pushing an agenda. It’s anything but.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

MPs oppose Wes Streeting’s decision to dictate what the NHS pays for drugs .

Quite right too.

To appease Trump Govt has agreed to pay £64bn extra for NHS drugs by 2036. No impact assessment published.

Can produce generic drugs cheaply locally.
https://t.co/DKP4kPGHKH

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Not enough focus on the fact that taxpayer subsidies for bars and restaurants are as high as £5.8 million per year (for the House of Commons alone, £7-8 million including Lords)

MPs base salaries are 93k PA.

They not only shouldn’t be pissed at work, but we pay for it!