Fiona

Generally left-leaning. Voted Remain & No. Against nationalism in any form. Absolutely not an SNP fan. Completely scunnered with this SNP-led “government”

[Fiona @RedheadFM]

Well, well, well…..🧐

From today’s The Times:
Murrell 'trying to protect' Sturgeon over items dropped in plea deal. https://t.co/2y8An2e2bo

[Stephen Kerr MSP @RealStephenKerr]

Daniel Finkelstein is right. Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland to believe that the politician who controlled the SNP, dominated Scottish politics and tolerated no dissent somehow knew nothing about what was happening inside her own party. Questions about the money were shut down. Critics were frozen out. Loyalists closed ranks. Now, after Peter Murrell’s conviction, she says she bears no responsibility. You cannot demand total control when things go well and plead ignorance when everything falls apart. Scots are no longer buying it.

[Fiona @RedheadFM]

@DanielB55180468 @carolinepenman5 @marionmain3 Hate to burst your bubble but the majority don’t want it

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

This answer from Swinney makes no sense. The alleged sophistication & cunning of Murrell might explain why it was difficult to detect his thieving. But it doesn’t explain why the SNP failed to take legitimate questions seriously, and in fact told people to stop asking questions.

[Historywoman @2351onthelist]

If you haven’t read this, you need to read it now. According to Robin McAlpine, pretty much everything about the Murrell case stinks - from postponing the hearing until after the election to holding it on a Bank Holiday. And much, much more.

https://t.co/cD9ewolaio

[Historywoman @2351onthelist]

@MajorDMalpas @LWhitson16 Well said, Major.

Why would we be ‘over the moon’ when all our worst suspicions about the SNP have been laid bare as truth. Read Robin McAlpine.

https://t.co/cD9ewolaio

[Major D Malpas @MajorDMalpas]

It is about us. It’s about the kind of people you would have had Lord it over us after separation. It’s about the control of power, the corruption of power and shitting on the ordinary people outwith your elite. It’s a warning to us about the nature of nationalism.

You sit down.

[Malcolm Tucker @gorbalsgoebbels]

Is Starmer amazing? No.

Is he a decent bloke? Yes.

Every leader makes mistakes. Thatcher, Churchill, Blair. Now tiny issues are magnified into full blown crisis.

Perspective needed.

Line must be drawn or we end up with instability ad infinitum with PMs going every other year.

[Fiona @RedheadFM]

Is the problem the PM? Labour? No, it's us.
“We, the voters, are deluding ourselves. We are living beyond our means & don’t want to stop, so we keep electing politicians who make unrealistic promises & getting rid of them when they fail to deliver” https://t.co/TwYMhdcOZc

[Steve Sayers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿in🇬🇧=👍🏼 @SteveSayersOne]

Ok @scotgov - where’s the realistic peer reviewed plan we’ve been asking for since 2012?

[Fiona @RedheadFM]

@ItsLesleyFergs @kevverage But convincing just over 50% of the population is not sufficient to enact massive constitutional change, is it? Needs to be at least 66% (2/3). Cannot understand why David Cameron agreed to that figure. Less than a golf club mandate (or, apparently, the SNP threshold for change)

[Fiona @RedheadFM]

@MattPinner_ @Matt_Pinner R

[Fiona @RedheadFM]

@finlayson_vera @John2Win @TomTugendhat Think you meant to say MSP’s, not MP’s. And what percentage of the vote did the SNP get? 🤔🙄

[Kevin Hague @kevverage]

the independence debate in a nutshell

[Kevin Hague @kevverage]

thought experiment: imagine how much could have been achieved in Scotland over the last 10 yrs if energy devoted to constitutional grievance-mongering had instead been directed towards improving our economic performance and driving efficiency in public service delivery *now*

[Glenn @GlennGlennReal]

Well done Scotland voting to give Swinney and his incompetent activists another 5 years on the gravy train. You do know that there will be NO independence? He’s duped you all.
Scotland 5.5m people - Half the population are on some form of benefits, the rest that aren’t around 20-24% of that group are public sector workers paid for by the taxpayer.
The private sector, the bit that actually generates the wealth is stagnant & diminishing, while benefit dependency and long-term sickness explode.
@theSNP has run Scotland for nearly 20 years.
Result? A structural deficit so huge the rest of the UK sends us £26 billion every year just to keep the lights on.
Without that subsidy we’d be bankrupt.
We are being run into the ground by people who think more spending, more welfare and more grievance equals progress.
The numbers don’t lie. Scotland’s dependency culture is unsustainable and the SNP has zero credible plan to fix it

[Fiona @RedheadFM]

@scotfax @gorbalsgoebbels Oops! 🤣

[ScotFax @scotfax]

Nats right now realising that the Scottish Greens forgot to put in a commitment to an indyref in their manifesto.

[Fiona @RedheadFM]

@PaulaCoyscot @errie8906 You asked the question but can’t seem to cope with perfectly reasonable answers, if they’re counter to your view. Better to be thankful for the response, say respectfully you don’t agree & then reflect on it

[Fiona @RedheadFM]

@PaulaCoyscot @errie8906 Err, you asked the question & received a perfectly legitimate answer 🙄