Janet Law

SNP Member for decades

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

🚨BDS VICTORY 🚨 British oil company Dana Petroleum has been forced to WITHDRAW from Israel’s criminal plan to pillage Palestinian gas reserves off the coast of Gaza.
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[The Lady J of Tay @brawday]

Absolutely shocking.

[Mia Amor Mottley @miaamormottley]

No one on this planet has the right to gamble with our children’s future.

Sign the petition at https://t.co/dwzUVc7uT4 and help us build a movement of 1.5 billion voices for 1.5 degrees.

Every year of delay is paid for in homes, livelihoods and lives. The people carrying that cost have every right to demand more. Funding that reaches their communities, protection before disaster strikes and leaders who honour their commitments.

At @turkiyecop31 COP31, I issued a challenge that reaches far beyond the conference hall. Our future is too important for any of us to remain silent.

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

I spoke to @mrjamesob on @LBC yesterday about Sohan's and my three year investigation into an Israel-linked racist campaign attacking the US and Europe with anti-migrant and anti-Muslim ads.

For the UK, MPs need to raise in the parliament.

#dysinfluence
#greatreplacement

[Fatima Joji SNP @FatimaJojiSnp]

Absolutely!

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

Yes, it was "a different time" and all that, but *some* men absolutely did call out Russell Brand.
And Russell caved instantly.

It's simply not true that feigned ignorance or the fawning sycophancy of Jonathan Ross were the only responses.
#RodStewartGotItRight
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[Paisley on the web @paisleyorguk]

More than 320 employers across the Glasgow City Region, including Renfrewshire, sign up to pay the real Living Wage https://t.co/8a4WzMGdn9

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Rachel Reeves, "My constituency voted leave in the Brexit referendum"

"There was only one reason, they did not like high levels of uncontrolled immigration particularly from Eastern Europe"

- I bet they're loving all the post Brexit legal migrants from India, Nigeria and elsewhere -

"I remember doing a Q&A with a workforce, I remembering answering a question, that people who suffer when the economy turns soul is people in low paid work in communities like ours, because they're fewer jobs"

"One guy stood up and he said: it doesn't matter if there are fewer jobs, where all the jobs now go to immigrants. Everyone in the room gave him a round of applause"

"People believed - rightly or wrongly - that unlimited immigration without any controls was undercutting wages of ordinary working class Britons"

My view:

Rachel Reeves should be challenging the claim that “all the jobs now go to immigrants”, rather than recounting the applause and leaving it hanging with “rightly or wrongly”. A room agreeing with something does not make it true. Political leadership means being prepared to explain that, even when it is unpopular.

The evidence matters. The Migration Advisory Committee found little or no overall impact from immigration on the employment prospects of UK-born workers. It found that wage effects were generally small, although some lower-paid workers could experience negative effects. That deserves an honest explanation, rather than allowing a sweeping claim about immigrants taking everyone’s jobs to stand unchallenged.

Migrants also buy goods, use services and create demand for other people’s work. The economy does not contain a fixed number of jobs that newcomers simply take away from everyone already here. Where employers exploit workers or undercut pay, the response should be stronger employment rights, enforcement and bargaining power for everyone.

And “uncontrolled immigration” needs challenging too. EU freedom of movement operated under legal rules, including conditions on residence beyond three months. It also gave British citizens reciprocal rights to live and work across the EU. Politicians should explain those rights accurately instead of repeating the language used to discredit them.

There is also an obvious irony: ending freedom of movement was followed by a substantial shift towards non-EU migration, including people from India and Nigeria. Those migrants deserve exactly the same respect as their European counterparts. The question is what Brexit actually achieved for the people promised that ending free movement would improve their lives.

People’s anxiety about insecure work and low wages deserves to be taken seriously. Blaming their neighbours deserves to be challenged. Reeves should be explaining the difference.

[A.M.MacJ @ammacj]

@BBCScotlandNews There are three councillors on the board of NHS Grampian.
Two LibDems, one Tory.
The chair of NHS Grampian who left last month was a Labour councillor.
Will BBC Scotland be interviewing them?
@susiehanson @clairethomson01
@BBCLisaSummers

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

Schneider Electric, a global energy technology leader, report from the Schneider Electric Research Institute (SERI) examining how rising #solar panel and battery adoption shapes total #electricity costs finds that, when DER deployment is coordinated with electrification, the overall cost of running the electricity system could be cut by as much as 40% by the 2030s as solar panels and #batteries scale up. These savings could translate into an additional 0.8% of GDP to the global economy by 2030.
https://t.co/1PUgZt9dwk

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

Once you start noticing that the British press keep framing new massive benefit cuts as a question of whether Labour MPs have the personal bravery to vote in favour of them, you can’t stop seeing it. Over and over, now.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Do Reform just turn up really early in the morning and put a towel on one of the chairs or something?

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Good news announced at #COP31: through UNEP’s @MethaneData, 46 major methane sources have been addressed across 13 countries, with an impact equivalent to taking 26 million cars off the road for a year.

Methane is the second largest contributor to global heating, behind carbon dioxide. Cutting its emissions is one of the fastest ways to slow warming: https://t.co/QcU4eGp9dL

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Data centres in the US and Europe are greatly increasing CO2 emissions by building their own fossil fuel power stations, concludes a new report. And UK chancellor John Healey has just given them leave to do precisely that as a “temporary” measure.

https://t.co/RrHWVPFrij

[The Lady J of Tay @brawday]

John Swinney mocks Malcolm Offord over Brexit claims in FMQs clash https://t.co/ADcRDwk9mr

[UK Polling Report @PollingReportUK]

SEAT PREDICTION LATEST - GLASGOW SOUTH

SNP GAIN FROM LAB @gordonmckeemp
MAJ: 4.3%

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[Janet Law @jlbps]

@tommy_ciao @MarkSeddon1962 The point here is that recent governments are all worse than even Thatcher's in terms of calling out Israel

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

Margaret Thatcher was prepared to call out Israeli Governments, but highly doubtful if this lot did.

[Janet Law @jlbps]

@DaveKeating Surely US is equally subject to short-termism as the current President is now a lame duck?

[Claudio Francavilla @ClaFrancavilla]

@DaveKeating EU reluctance to have a real foreign policy (meaning: dropping unanimity) is clear.

But the analysis can’t overlook Heritage/MAGA will to weaken the EU - incl. by sponsoring anti-EU pol. parties, dividing EU states, and ridiculing EU institutional actors. Case in point here.