The optics are dreadful.
The KC representing bereaved Covid families sharing a boozy lunch with the very politician whose actions are under scrutiny?
At the very least, this is an appalling lack of judgement that damages confidence in the inquiry.
Anyone else starting to get really concerned about how chummy Nicola Sturgeon is with lawyers that are meant to be representing the Scottish COVID bereaved? Another SNP stitch up? #SNPout#ResignSwinney#McMafia
Nicola Sturgeon having a glass of wine in the sun with her pal Claire Mitchell KC.
Wait a minute, isn't that the same Claire Mitchell KC who "cross-examined" Nicola Sturgeon at the Covid Inquiry?
The plot thickens, Claire Mitchell accused Sturgeon of destroying Covid Inquiry evidence? They were Chums before she was given the Inquiry job by Aamer Anwar? Aamer Anwar given the lucrative post by Sturgeons Govt! Stinks of conflict and needs Law Society to investigate. Claire avoided questioning Surgeon. @scotgov@Lawscot
Nearly every pub and bar that intended to show it will have already got a £25 T.E.N licence in place.
He’s helped literally no one.
Yet his two budgets put tens of thousands of pounds on our costs each year.
Stop pretending he’s helping pubs.
A man convicted of raping his passenger in a taxi should absolutely not be allowed to hold a taxi licence
@HighlandCouncil - I’d ask what’s wrong with you but the answer is obvious: woman-hating
Swinney is terrified of an inquiry and is prepared to use every trick in the book to block one. The Scottish Affairs Committee should press ahead with an inquiry of its own, as this is the only way that the many questions this sordid affair has thrown up will be answered.
This is the City Barge pub in Chiswick right now. What do you notice? It’s 3pm and they’re open. It’s a sunny day. Yes, that’s right; they have had to remove all of the tables and chairs outside. They have had to destroy their own business. Why? Because Rick Rowe, a Green Party councillor on Hounslow council, who lives very, very, very close to this pub and complains about it almost daily, has banned all three pubs here on strand on the Green Chiswick, from having outside tables. I can only assume he hates pubs, hates business and hates the British way of life. This would usually be buzzing with people enjoying their afternoon. However, they’re the wrong sort of people for Rick.
Names & Shame the Highlands Council councillors who voted in favour of letting convicted rapist David Brown keep his taxi Licenses
Chris Birt
John Grafton
Ruraidh Stewart
Sean Kennedy
Willy MacKay
Duncan McPherson
Six of these ten Highland Councillors voted to allow a taxi driver who raped a passenger to keep his operator’s license — even though senior police officers urged them not to.
Please note that although we’re constantly told it’s women who grease the wheels for rapists, every single councillor who voted in rapist David Brown’s favor is a man. Take a good look at them, Scottish women: these 6 men would put you, alone and unwarned, in a taxi with a man who has already raped at least one passenger.
Brown has been put on the register for life; he raped an 18 year old girl and dumped her outdoors on a sub-zero January night in the Scottish Highlands; but these 6 men - Chris Birt, John Grafton, Ruraidh Stewart, Sean Kennedy, Willy MacKay, and Duncan MacPherson - are more concerned about his finances than they are about the safety of local women.
https://t.co/Rq2jzLJ9P3
🚨After being annihilated in #AberdeenSouth, Lloyd Melville demands “bolder” plans to axe oil & gas. 1,000 highly paid jobs lost every month isn’t enough for him?? So much for Flynn’s “friend of oil & gas”. Clueless ideologues happy to destroy Scotland’s economy. 🤡 @DLumsden_MP
Imagine if it transpired that Peter Murrell was not the only SNP figure to have spent party funds on personal purchases. Imagine if it emerged that dozens of SNP MSPs had similarly misused party funds, including public monies paid by way of grants. Wouldn't that be something?
🚨 SICKENING: Whistleblower Adele Weir exposed a Rotherham grooming gang with at least 270 victims.
The council’s response? They told her never to refer to “Asian men” in her report… and sent her on a two-day equality and diversity course.
They punished the person trying to stop child rape - instead of the rapists.
This is how deep the rot went.
What do you make of this? 👇
#GroomingGangs #PoliticalCorrectness #Racism
Could you ask your Labour colleagues who sent their kids to independent schools, why they did so. Could you ask the others, who can afford to avoid sink State schools by buying expensive homes near good state schools, why they did so.
Could you ask yourself why no other European country taxes education.
And could you then give your head a rattle: parents who elect to pay tens of thousands of pounds to educate their kids shouldn’t be demonised, but celebrated. They save the State the trouble of educating their kids, while still paying taxes as if the State was picking up the tab. Your vindictive VAT rise has closed more than 100 private schools, some centuries old. There is nothing noble about your self-justifying ideological vandalism.
Can we just pause a minute to consider how utterly bonkers mental it is, that it took 3 private citizens, 3 women, years of stress, fundraising, campaigning AND 3 COURT CASES ONE OF THEM TO THE SUPREME COURT, for the Scottish government to accept that women don’t have cocks
Two thirds of these Labour MPs will lose their seats at the next election. As a polity, they represent some of the lowest-calibre elected representatives ever to befoul the Commons chamber. Few have had jobs outside charities, pressure groups or Westminster. We deserve better.
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