@AngusBMacNeil@jmacross46 UK National debt was £560 billion when Tories came to power in 2005. It was £1.4 trillion just before Indy Ref in August 2014. Today it is £2.74 trillion - an increase of £186 billion in last 12 months. Interest payments are £88 billion/year.
Unbelievable exchange this morning on Radio Scotland between the presenter and Professor @RichardJMurphy, interrupting him and conducting an interview with barely concealed contempt. Really bad.
Westminster won't have zonal pricing as this would make electricity cheaper in Scotland and would encourage businesses to locate there. Are you awake to what's happening?
Scotland could have had the cheapest energy bills in Europe ... until the UK Government ruled it out.
This is the story of zonal pricing, and how Labour stopped it.
Scottish #Liebour MP's who voted to make Palestine Action a proscribed organsisation
Shame on them all
This is what happens when Scotland votes for English party MPs - they are told what to do by London
Today’s figures show best monthly 4hr A&E performance in 2yrs & best delayed discharge in 18months, much more to do & only beginning of improvements I want to see. Visiting Lothian today to see progress on cutting waiting times - 14% annual reduction in inpatient & daycase waits.
This morning's BritNat Breakfast show is employing a complete blackout of the latest A&E waiting time figures which are the *BEST* for two years but is running an NHSBad story about a ward closure and its impact on one patient. ONE.
Political corruption is rampant at BBC Scotland. From caricaturing Scotland's NHS to airbrushing Anas Sarwar out of all coverage of Starmer's welfare reform chaos. We do so hope the Scottish Govt is raising concerns privately. To do nothing would be as bad as the journalistic fraud itself.
BBC persists with fiction that any shortcomings after 18 years of @theSNP government must be the SNP's fault
They act like we already have #ScottishIndependence
Never acknowledging constraints & interference from Westminster
Devolution always a fudge, not intended to succeed
When Scotland declares independence, we will have a blank slate. We can redefine our nation’s values and goals, refresh its policies and ambitions, remake our institutions, and design a nation to thrive in this century, not the last.
The biggest story of the week bar none is the Labour civil war over Starmer's disability cuts. The Radio BritNat phone-in has ignored it but has managed to have TWO consecutive phone-ins on the NHS.