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[Simon Jordan @Sjopinion10]

What a shame for Scottish football #hearts … nothing exciting or new about #celtic winning the league ..

Everyone can go back to not caring about Scottish football again 💤💤💤💤

[La Sueur @LaSueur_off]

Absolute cinema 🤯

[Jane Lax - MND - find a cure @Janela_X]

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It is scandalous that the likes of Sir Tom Hunter are not asked for advice on how to improve the Scottish economy. And we know that will not change in the next term. We'll just get more of the same.

[Stewart Michael @MikeStewart79]

If that counts as a vote for independence, I’ve got news for you.
Just 21% of eligible voters bothered to turn out and say they wanted it.

Here’s to another five years of the same old pantomime.

Monday’s call for Swinney will go exactly like this:

Swinney: “Keir, can 2% of the UK hold a vote to break up the UK?”

Keir: “No.”

Swinney: “Ah well, I asked. See you back here in five years for the same tired trick.”

Scotland, I despise you absolute fannies.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Jeez. I really can’t be bothered. Idiotic questions. When you were a footballer did the ball hit your head a lot? I wish in a virtual world you really could have your independence so I could watch you cope with the shitshow it would be on debt, borrowing, currency, and the massive austerity it would entail.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

I agree 100%. I am and have always been very proud to be Scottish. That will never change. But I am not proud of what the SNP has done to Scotland (or Labour for that matter), what it has become and I fear we are now in relentless decline, in stark contradistinction to our glorious past. But the Scots have nobody to blame but themselves. Nobody forced this dire mediocrity on them. They voted for it. Again and again and again. Devolution has only made it worse. The politics and ambition of the kailyard.

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses.

I’ll explain for the economically illiterate.

Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add:
- 12.07% holiday
- Sick pay
- Maternity pay if and when required
- National insurance
- Pension contributions

These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up.

Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t.

Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics.

Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs.

There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay.

So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost.

Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes.

The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.

[Marko Polo @markthehibby]

🚨Holyrood bubble 2026👉An employer of hundreds of thousands of people who has paid £45 MILLION in tax is the bad guy? A posh uni drop out career politician with extremist views including being on the side of Male Murderers in women's prisons is portrayed as the good guy. 🤡 Show!

[Chris Hendry @chendry100]

@heraldscotland Unequivocally yes. More wealth creators contributing to the tax base is precisely what the country needs.

[Linda Holt @LHolt99]

Doubling down on his envy and pettiness - Greer exemplifies what is so self-defeating about Scottish politics. You can tell he's never had a proper job and hasn't got a clue that wealth-creation is the key to a successful economy, not taxing the life it of everyone to fund an all-giving state.

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

Charlie Munger warned us:

“Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome.”

The UK government listened… and froze the tax allowance

Then built a 62% marginal income tax rate for anyone earning between £100k–£125k.

What does that incentive say?

“Work harder - and we’ll take most of it.”

“Push for promotion - and you’ll earn less.”

“Build a business here - but don’t you dare succeed.”

And then we wonder why:

• People refuse overtime

• Senior staff decline promotions

• Entrepreneurs move overseas

• Productivity flatlines

This isn’t economics - it’s intentional self-sabotage.

[Sir Tom Hunter @SirTomHunter]

I am an eternal optimist but I’m also a realist so as we trundle towards the Scottish elections and all the freebies on offer from our politicians the ask is – how are you going to pay for them?

Speaking of politicians, I am reminded of a brilliant episode of The Thick of It entitled ‘Rise of the Nutters’ – a satire on inept politicians making stupid policies

Armando Iannucci, a good Scotsman said he couldn’t write any more political satire as the real-life situation couldn’t be funnier; I would add it couldn’t be scarier.

Is it just me or are more nutters hoping to get elected into public office, and not just in Scotland but globally?

We need to boost our economy and go for growth while attracting the very best into public office. Here are some quick wins for our politicians…

- Housing: Fast track planning, and Section 75 redesign

- Quangos bonfire: Reduce the red tape, bureaucracy and duplication

- Hospitality and retail: Freeze the rates system

- Tax: Level the tax system with England

- Oil & gas: Bring forward the Energy Profits Levy, and open up new licenses to explore our North Sea

- Business support: Streamline assistance through a one-stop shop

And once elected engage with business – nearly every serious business person I speak to it is “Country first, Politics second”. Take advantage and partner with business; make policies based on facts…

Scotland should be booming — why does it feel like it’s going bust?

https://t.co/jO0pmVyuNK

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

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Just fuck off with your misleading ‘free’ shit - typical SNP free shite!!! Prescriptions??

Nothing in Scotland is "free." Taxpayers foot the full bill—over £1.07 billion annually for dispensed prescriptions (soared from £598 million a decade ago). That's your "progressive" triumph: every Scottish worker and business subsidising endless low-value items like paracetamol and ibuprofen that cost pennies over the counter.

England? A modest £9.90 per item (frozen again for 2026/27). But 90% of items are already exempt for the genuinely vulnerable: elderly, pregnant, low-income, cancer, diabetes sufferers, etc. Targeted protection, not blanket waste.

And here's the SNP's favourite omission: even those who **do pay** in England get massive long-term cost reductions via Prescription Prepayment Certificates (PPCs). A 3-month PPC costs just £32.05 (covers unlimited items—saves money after just 4 prescriptions). The annual one is £114.50 (breaks even after 12 items, then everything is effectively free for the year—often saving hundreds of pounds). Many chronic patients pay far less overall than under Scotland's "free" system, where the NHS (i.e., you) absorbs every extra item with no personal cap or incentive for restraint.

Your universal "free at the point of use" policy? Pure economic illiteracy:
- It exploded prescribing volume post-2011 with zero personal cost deterrent.
- Biggest winners: comfortably-off adults who could easily afford £9.90—not the poor you pretend to champion.
- Result: ballooning taxpayer costs, potential waste/stockpiling, and opportunity cost that could have funded staff or cut waiting lists instead of SNP headline-grabbing.

You scrapped modest charges (with strong exemptions) and branded it "ending a tax on the sick." Pathetic. It's actually a **tax on everyone else** to fund inefficiency and buy votes.

Here’s the humiliating truth**: England's system protects the vulnerable while offering real, long-term savings to regular users through smart prepayment. Scotland's "free" flagship is fiscal fantasy dressed as morality—delivering no superior health outcomes, just higher bills for taxpayers and distorted behaviour.

Next time you or @theSNP boast remember: the only thing free is your detachment from reality. Scotland pays dearly for your slogans. England does it smarter.

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

Here @LiamHalligan absolutely nails everything that’s wrong with the UK economy now.

Worth 10 minutes of your time.

[The Majority #ScrapHolyrood @themajorityscot]

Like Salmond, Swinney will die before the UK breaks itself up. It's bad enough that he's wasted is own life on a teenage dream, but he dragged the rest of us into his endless #indywanking.

[Chris Hendry @chendry100]

@footballontnt Brought in to free-spending City with one objective - to win the Champions League.

Leaves with one win in ten attempts during which time Real have won 5 but hey, at least he'll always have this.

[Chris Hendry @chendry100]

@ConorNigel Scumbag behaviour. Hope you get spanked in your next fight which I'm sure you will. Been absolutely hopeless since you got popped for PEDs barrring one half-decent performance against a severely weight drained Eubank Jnr 👋

[Chris Hendry @chendry100]

@UnitedStandMUFC He is shit hot every week. It's the other 10 players who tend to be the problem. Does this guy actually watch the games?!

[Chris Hendry @chendry100]

@goodbadftblpod Plenty players you can have a pop at from the current squad but not Martinez, he's never let the club down. Two club legends now making a living out of slagging the club off. Sad to see and tarnishing their legacy in my eyes. Sooner this garbage podcast is off air the better.