Nick Whelan

Scots & English Law @dundeeuni, Dundee born n bred.

[Nick Whelan @Nick_whelan_]

@Cat_Headley @jruddy99 @euanmccolm I suppose the question to ask is: If you can’t find the support of <20% of your own parliamentary party or <10% of the WM Scot PLP, how could someone be expected to govern the party?

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@MazzaInvests Cancel your Netflix subscription mate.

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@Davyjrob67 Devils advocate here, I’ve got multiple friends employed on great wages in the defence industry here in Scotland. Good quality, room-for-progression jobs they wouldn’t otherwise have. Neither of them went to university either.

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@NicholasTyrone They’ve obviously never been to Dundee.

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Cracking day to be the editor of the National.

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@Scott_Wortley I am bewildered that with a parliamentary party 400+ strong he merely shifted most of the deck chairs and brought ministers back in who’d previously resigned. An ironic endorsement of Starmer’s government?

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@HeracleanVision It also happens to be the right thing to do. Do we stand with our hands in our pockets incase big fraud Nigel says something nasty?

[Innes McGarry @InnesMcgarry]

Good to see a politician remember the Scots who fought for democracy in Spain but the line about volunteers is only true if you only count pro-government volunteers.

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@aquitainexox @drcherrypark Your grandfather won that fighting facism. I think I know who’d really be insulted today.

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Is this all they’ve got on him?

[Noa Hoffman @hoffman_noa]

EXCL: The Tories have accused Sir Keir Starmer of using the Government Car Service to transport his kitten Prince between Downing Street and Chequers.

It comes after Paymaster General Nick Thomas-Symonds confirmed that ‘residents of Downing Street’ – including those in previous administrations – have frequently and publicly taken pets between residences.

Tory chairman Kevin Hollinrake slammed the outgoing Prime Minister for using the ministerial fleet to ‘run a cat delivery service to Chequers’ and accused him of 'taking the puss'.

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@JackWB1 I feel sorry for the residents of Clacton. An eccentric figure could embarrass Farage with some decent local policies. No need to stick to the stocking-filler jokes.

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@VonnSand A little talked about feature of the ‘education for all policy’. It should be: those with the means to pay should pay for those who cannot.

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@MhairiHunter Do you not feel the system of electing heads of parties on councils alongside an unelected CEO a bit old fashioned? I democratic even?

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@alasdair_clark It’s new new new Labour

[Stephen Watt @StephenWatt_]

It's not a good sign when the Scottish Parliament is actively posting about cuts on LinkedIn!

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@sarah__british @Keir_Starmer Uh oh, no switched the news on in a wee while?

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@rosscolquhoun Obviously not knocked many doors in Dundee as of recent? Poor consistent turnouts and lots of no-go areas for all political parties. Would you like to come around Douglas or Happyhillock with me?

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@BBCPolitics That’s because he hasn’t been given a job yet.

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@_tomscotson Where are you pulling this absolute nonsense from? Can you tell me where Ed Miliband’s constituency is?

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@chrisdeerin Wouldn’t be the first or even second time it’s happened.