All that unionist tsunami of propaganda to hammer home a contrived gotcha "You said once in a generation"
Yet, Lisa, right on cue..... 'promises not delivered' - like voting No to keep our EU citizenship, Lisa?
@iScotNews Feel free to circulate this bolt of truth.
@themajorityscot So you think the Scottish government getting Barnet consequential compensates individual pensioners having pensions made less valuable ? Really?
@staylorish "introducing pensioner payments" 🤣 Thats hardly the point is it. Westminster is robbing individual Scottish Pensioners directly. You want them to take solace from an increase in the Barnet Consequentials?
Aside from the accuracy of this tweet, ScotGov could always increase the state pension with the Barnett consequentials of a rise in English spending on personal care. I don't see Swinney volunteering to do this.
Independence MSP's
1999 - 36
2003 - 34
2007 - 49
2011 - 71
2016 - 69
2021 - 72
2026 - 73
SNP has won 5 Holyrood elections in a row, Labour had their worst ever election & Tories fell to 4th.
Independence MSP's have been the majority since 2011.
If that's not a mandate what is?
Maximum monthly State Pension.
Luxembourg £5,426
Norway £1,839
Switzerland £1,657
Denmark £1,486
Sweden £1,373
Belgium £1,338
Netherlands £1,322
France £1,254
Spain £1,238
UK £997
Guess which is unaffordable?
This woman took an organisation with 125,000 members at the *peak* of its powers -
left it with 50k members
A husband who defrauded it
A wildly unpopular GRC law that had to be overturned by the grownups
and never delivered or even tried to deliver the organisations main aim.
They have reduced the value of pensions payable to Scots to finance English Health care. Thats how devolution works. Oh and if you rhink its ok because you and yours arent of pensionable age, just wait till they send you all of to war #conscription
EXCL: This morning, the Labour Prime Minister said that the Gaza genocide is “still under consideration”.
But I have been given access to documents that prove an Andy Burnham leadership bid was funded by a former Israeli soldier.
Tomorrow, I will publish his name.
He can afford to continue to fund Zelensky, but he can't afford to fund our pensioners.
And in the most brazenly disgusting and opportunistic way, he uses his own father's death to make an emotional case against Scottish independence.
Thousands die in Scotland every month, precisely because of the union. Poverty is what the union has provided for Scotland since Thatcher, the number one killer of Scots since that time.
Burnham doesn't understand Scotland, and he's clearly fine with that. If he thinks that support for independence can be blunted with stentorian emotional statements that offer nothing concrete, he hasn't been paying attention.
The monarchy, House of Lords, Trident, the closure of Grangemouth -- there has been not one mention of any of that. He is, to all intents, a gas and water social democrat advocating small measures at a time when nothing less than radical reform will do.