Alasdair Weir

Christian | Husband | Father | Member of @ccstockport | Practising solicitor | Scottish born, but lives in and loves Stockport (Opinions my own)

[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

@mrdanwalker ❌ overfilling
❌ square top
❌ only half of floor in matching black & white
🙅‍♂️ banned from cake club
😂😄

[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

@jessphillips The job of a non-executive is to hold the executive to account. Whereas she just...held him.

[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

Get in! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Lisa Nandy MP @lisanandy]

The Tories appear to be out on the attack today. Why would they be feeling so thin-skinned?

[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

@William_Wragg @DerbysPolice But officer, I took this short drive to test my eyesight.

[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

@TomKibasi Good point. However: it was ‘oven ready’ but a year later it’s not baked. So businesses can’t ‘get ready’ (as Govt tells them to do). A late deal is pretty bad, if not as bad as no deal. And there is plenty time in 2021 to point out how thin it is when the consq. are on view

[Peter Kyle @peterkyle]

From the man who told me to ‘show some guts’ for warning about this *during summer*...

‘PM Boris Johnson has suggested the recent spike in coronavirus cases in the UK is a result of a "fraying of people's discipline" over the summer.’ https://t.co/xdL1KrMCd5

[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

@PickardJE The most shellfish man in Britain

[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

@mrdanwalker Too much media coverage to reply to this simple Q, Dan. But the original Guardian/Mirror story seems to hold up. I assume they gave him right to reply before publishing. Wonder why it’s taken him till today to do that?

[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

I understand if people now feel they can disregard Govt guidance. But please don’t. We are nearly at the point where we can emerge, step by step, from this testing isolation. Each of us following our own instincts, and what we feel to be reasonable, will set that back. #StayHome

[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

Blub

[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

If I can’t work at home but can’t get to work except by public transport, what do I do? #StayAlert obviously, but what does that mean???

[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

I listened to an expert, Prof. Sarah Gilbert, a vaccinologist at Oxf., being interviewed this morning. Not long following there was an interview with the politician who once said we’d all had enough of experts (Michael Gove). Guess which interview I found most informative?

[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

He is risen !

[CCStockport @ccstockport]

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[CCStockport @ccstockport]

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[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

I know less about judicial review than I perhaps should, as a lawyer. (Not my practice area.) This from @jessphillips is an important practical view on the good it can do. Our politicians and public bodies should not be above the law or scrutiny.

[Jess Phillips @jessphillips]

Thread. I find the proposals to "review" the judges and and judicial review process chilling. Having assisted with a number of judicial reviews and super complaints to protect victims of domestic abuse I can see that without the courts citizens would have been less safe.

[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

‘So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.’ A prayer of Moses (Ps 90:12) apt for a new year’s eve. #happynewyear2020

[Alasdair Weir @aplweir]

@NavPMishra @OwenJones84 @StockportLabour @LabourNorthWest How will you fix the housing crisis and bring skilled jobs to Stockport? Especially if we leave the EU?

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Parliament did not ‘block’ the Conservative-negotiated Withdrawal Agreement. They literally passed it. J-Dog, meanwhile, voted against a previous Conservative-negotiated Withdrawal Agreement. Just as Boris Johnson did. Why would he not mention this? ‘Common sense’, presumably.