Kieren

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

Oops. @ProfJMitchell responds (see quoted tweet) to Ross Greer’s suggestion in parliament that the Scottish Green amendment is closest to his proposals.

[Marko Polo @markthehibby]

Never gets old...😂

[Dan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Kingbingo_]

@ZackPolanski Zack thinks the people of this country are mindless sheep who have no agency and just wait to hear 'narratives'.
No, these people had enough all by themselves.

[Marko Polo @markthehibby]

'SNP HQ should have handed over the bank statements to the Finance & Audit Cttee but refused to. Procedurally the NEC should have forced the handover of those documents but was bullied out it by Sturgeon. Had procedures been followed, Murrell would have been caught' #JailSturgeon

[Oswalds Bar @OswaldsBar]

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[Mark Irvine @Mark1957]

Holding The Unions To Account

The whole point of a trade union is to represent the views and interests of its members - they are, or ought to be, bottom-up organisations not top down -'member led not activist led

@Glinner
@SexMattersOrg

[malca goldstein-wolf @WolfMalca]

Ich liebe alles daran ❤️

Die #Allianz fordert 300.000 £ von #ProPalästina-Aktivisten,
ihnen droht lebenslange Insolvenz!

Ein britisches Gericht hat dem deutschen Versicherer Allianz gestattet, eine Zivilklage in Höhe von fast 300.000 £ gegen sechs
Pro-Palästina-Aktivisten zu verfolgen; gleichzeitig wurde der Antrag abgelehnt, das Verfahren bis zum Abschluss der gegen sie laufenden Strafprozesse auszusetzen.

Gegen die Aktivisten liegen separate Strafanzeigen vor, da sie bei Protesten in den Jahren 2024 und 2025 rote Farbe auf Allianz-Büros gesprüht und dabei einen Sachschaden von 38.000 £ verursacht haben sollen. Während sich der reine Sachschaden auf 38.000 £ beläuft, umfasst die Gesamtforderung der Klage fast 300.000 £. Die Allianz hat weitere 200.000 £ für „Reputationsschäden und geschäftliche Beeinträchtigungen“ geltend gemacht.

Die Gruppe erklärte, sie habe das Unternehmen aufgrund dessen versicherungstechnischer Verbindungen zum israelischen Rüstungskonzern Elbit Systems ins Visier genommen.

Da es sich um ein Zivilverfahren handelt, haben die Aktivisten keinen Anspruch auf die finanzielle Prozesskostenhilfe oder den Schutz durch ein Geschworenengericht, wie sie im Strafrecht üblich sind; sie sind somit gezwungen, sich ohne formelle Rechtsvertretung zu verteidigen.

Etwaige zugesprochene Schadensersatzsummen würden direkt aus den Ersparnissen und künftigen Gehältern der Beklagten beglichen; die Klage droht sie somit in lebenslange finanzielle Not und den Bankrott zu treiben.

[FrankLeeBrian @FrankLeeBrian]

SNP spin again.

Oil & gas jobs fell UK-wide due to 2014 price crash, COVID, maturing fields — not just "Tories".

OEUK data shows volatility; Scotland benefited from UK-wide support, debt funding, and Barnett formula extra spending.

SNP/Greens' hostility (no new fields, Bute House agreement, windfall tax support) accelerated decline in Aberdeen.

"Scotland's hands" ignores GERS deficits & SNP's own record.

Just transition needs realism, not grievance.

[FrankLeeBrian @FrankLeeBrian]

Classic SNP oil grievance myth from the latest nationalist clown to join the circus 🙄🤦‍♂️🤡

Scotland wasn't independent — UK as a whole chose not to create a Norway-style fund (different pop, politics, timing). UK oil revenues helped fund national debt, welfare, defence. Scotland's geographical share of North Sea tax has been volatile; GERS shows it often offset by higher per-head spending via Barnett (~£8bn extra).

SNP couldn't manage their own £400+k funds properly and let an embezzler steal them, so the chances of fiscal probity by these chancers is zero.

Hypothetical £1tn ignores reality. Grievance, not governance.

[ＣＡＩＬＥＡＮ @CAILEAN_UK]

@jackmiddleton95 In the 1980s the UK was dealing with:

high inflation

industrial decline

the 1976 IMF bailout

rising unemployment

collapsing heavy industry

Oil revenues were used to plug fiscal holes, not build long‑term assets. This was a deliberate choice: stabilise the UK economy now.

[Marko Polo @markthehibby]

#SNPout #AberdeenSouth

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

Stephen Gethins is (probably) the first MSP ever to have to correct the Official Report of a maiden speech. But this letter is not an honest account. Gethins did not “misspeak”. The published text of his speech initially included the false statistic (it was subsequently edited).

[Brian Spuzuki @BrianSpanner1]

It’s genuinely fucking frustrating that the working class in this country think they’re owed something.

The best folk to tell them this are folk who got £36,000 of free Uni and now work a 4 day week for a Scottish Govt quango designing art installations for cycle lanes.

[Kieren @RonTLC]

@gorbalsgoebbels

[Aviemore @Fyrishsunset]

In 2023, Westminster capped bus fares at £2 throughout England, so it’s actually the SNP that’s now copying them 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Andy Wightman @andywightman]

I remain concerned that Scottish Parliamentary procedures enabled and continue to enable the election of Convenors and Deputy Convenors from the same party for Parliamentary Committees. Given there was no scrutiny of this motion in Parliament, I have written to all members of the Parliamentary Bureau seeking answers as to how they came to agree this proposal. I will publish responses here.

[Brian Spuzuki @BrianSpanner1]

I used to wonder how people become pliant drones for the worst regimes in the world.

Really all it takes is to give them a thimble of power.

Such weak insipid people.

[Andy Wightman @andywightman]

The £10,000 is “given to you” as an equity stake. Scottish Minsters will own part of your home repayable on sale. The scheme will also push up house prices so you may gain little practical benefit.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The SNP’s latest use of freebies to buy votes (which the Scots keep falling for).
Of course, it’s not a free £10,000 grant—it’s a shared-equity scheme (like an interest-free equity loan) where the Scottish Government takes a proportional ownership stake in the property, which is repaid later.
You need to qualify for a mortgage in the usual way first. Then you can take Scot Gov’s £10k to help with the deposit.
If that comes to say, 5% of the purchase price, when you come to sell, say for £300,000, then you will pay back Scot Gov £15,000.