Ian Smart

Lefty lawyer; Scottish Labour Party hack; St Mirren till I die

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

On Wednesday, 8th April, my wife of thirty two years, Maureen O’Donovan, passed away. I’ve written about it here. Sorry it’s very long but it was a very long marriage. https://t.co/yQA4W82WvP

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

Anybody know what time we will know the outcome in Israel? Looking at you @Daniel_Sugarman

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

More interesting to me is what happens in 2031. Can the SNP hold on to power simply based on “standing up for Scotland”. I certainly wouldn’t rule that out.

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

A lot of friends of mine on here analysing and mocking the weekend currency plan. Fair enough up to a point but, in truth, it isn’t necessary. There is not going to be another referendum. It’s over. Even the SNP privately realise that.

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

Read this.

[Kelvingrove Mummy @TheGlasgowMummy]

I would like to give my informed consent to be putting back on display at Kelvingrove, I dont like it in this cupboard with the mops and buckets
@GlasgowCC

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

@with_rhymes @LucyHunterB Look, it is surely a better focus for their attention than how much they hate Jews. So let them get on with it.

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

@ForWomenScot @smaglens Give her a break! She might be a feminist elsewhere on the globe.

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

She writes really well. She should try writing a book.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇
https://t.co/BfxVLo0AD1

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

@MsLMG79 Ah for the days when getting stoned had a far more innocent meaning.

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

@WingsScotland I’m sure she is having a riot.

[Carol Mochan MSP @CMochan]

That didn’t take long

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

Quite right. Women should not put themselves at risk but management should make it clear any civil servant found to have ignored the law will be summarily dismissed. Someone should ask management if they will do that.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Civil servants have been told not to challenge trans women who wrongly use female lavatories.

Guidance published on Thursday states that trans people in Whitehall departments should only use the lavatories and changing rooms of their biological sex, not their gender identity.

However, it also warned staff against “confronting” biological men using the wrong facilities, saying it could “amount to unlawful harassment”.

🔗 https://t.co/nsczjUnd8z

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

He’ll say the same every year at their conference until he stands down. And, in his heart, he knows that.

[Kenny Farquharson @KennyFarq]

Swinney says independence is "very, very close" without ever explaining how. This is just talk. No strategy. No path.

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

I appreciate the SNP Leadership and the Scottish political press have a mutual benefit in flogging the independence dead horse but the rest of Scotland has long since moved on.

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

@ForWomenScot @WingsScotland I’m not sure the mention is entirely complimentary

[Matt Forde @mattforde]

Excellent.

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

This enterprise seems to be going well

[Dan Bloom @danbloom1]

EXCL: Police are conducting a criminal investigation into a dispute connected to the founding of Your Party

Met Police received a report "relating to the alleged unauthorised access of a political party’s database"

A man in his 20s was recently arrested. Enquiries continue

[Ian Smart @ianssmart]

So I’m in the kitchen and ask my step son if I can throw out the burnt toast he has left next to the toaster. “If you don’t want it” is his reply. As if he thought burnt toast was a delicacy for which I might have a particular penchant.

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

Frequent reference this morning to “currency, pensions, mortgages” at SNP conference. Some bemoan the lack of answers. Others say answers exist, but are not accessible enough. But nobody talks about the real issue: that the answers are all somewhere between unpalatable and toxic.

[Jonathan Dunn @JonathanDunn12]

So proud of my sister 💙

https://t.co/E5ZD4HXrQl