Jim Deacons 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

A bit grumpy, wife thinks I'm a numpty, don't take myself seriously, love football (Hibee), pro Europe and Independence, like people, hate injustice.

[Chris Williamson @DerbyChrisW]

.@LordJohnMann is an Israel apologist. His report on so-called 'antisemitism' in the NHS was commissioned by @wesstreeting, another Israel apologist. But AS in the NHS is nonexistent. The real purpose of Mann's report is to silence opposition to genocide.
https://t.co/ESOQ3izrzG

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

FMQ's is in 30 minutes. This article appeared on the BBC BritNat page in the last hour. It's no coincidence.

This is a station that refused to report a court case yesterday involving an ex-high profile Scottish Labour MSP, yet it will churn out a conveyor belt of tabloid propaganda articles in order to undermine the SNP.

[Bill Cruickshank @BjCruickshank]

@DrPamGosal Didn't know you were a member Pam, I am a long time member, a wee tip you are talking mince.

[annemac @annemac21776530]

@BBCScotlandNews Made Sarwar look small. Just a nasty little disappointed man who didn't get to be FM. No rice he still doesn't allow replies. Why are we paying him for being a public servant when he ignores people

[polo5 @poloandsons]

Colin Smyth appeared in court yesterday on serious drink driving charges.
He is currently on bail for possessing indecent images of children. He has separately been charged with placing a camera in the toilets at Holyrood.
The UK's colonial media in Scotland is largely silent.

[FellaGreen67 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🍀🌻 @GreenBhoy1967]

@JimmyMcd62 Joani Reid's husband arrested for spying for China. Reid herself reported for being drunk and flirtatious with a naval officer at Faslane. A submarine captain steps back over an alleged relationship with her.

But sure, let's keep investigating the SNP's missing £600k instead.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@cenkuygur: "Its weird to ban people who are against a genocide, but allow people in who are pro genocide"

But not weird when you realise the govt doing the banning has been supporting, arming & helping the regime committing that genocide.

[John Dick 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🇪🇺🚴🏻‍♀️ @dick_john]

@Daily_Record Says the tainted Hutcheon

Who more than most has helped you lose tens of thousands of readers, hundreds of jobs and embarrassingly now having to be printed in England

Champion of Scotland?

Not for a long time

#ChangeTheRecord

[FellaGreen67 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🍀🌻 @GreenBhoy1967]

Reform's Welsh leader Nathan Gill jailed 10.5 years for taking Russian bribes. Farage pictured with Nadia Sass the wife of the Russian handler who ran Gill. But the inquiry Unionist want is into the SNP's own money stolen from their own party. The brass neck of these people

[Meidas_Scotland @MeidasScotland]

HOLYROOD'S REAL PUBLIC SERVANTS Vs ONE VERY DUBIOUS CHARITY CASE

SNP cabinet ministers have returned nearly £2 million in pay with full audit trails. Reform’s Malcolm Offord promised his entire salary to a trust he alone controls — one the Scottish charity regulator has now opened a formal inquiry into.

SNP cabinet ministers have voluntarily frozen the ministerial part of their pay at 2008-09 levels for 17 years. They take the full legal salary but immediately return the excess straight to the Scottish Government for public spending — over £1.94 million returned by March 2024, projected to hit £2.64 million by 2026.

Fully auditable: The figures come from official Scottish Government FOI responses (e.g. FOI-202500451978) and are absorbed into audited public accounts checked annually by Audit Scotland. Anyone can request their own FOI for proof — it’s black-and-white government records, not party spin.

Reform’s approach (Malcolm Offord only):
The sole notable pledge is from Reform Scotland leader Malcolm Offord, who said he would donate his entire MSP salary (~£78,000/year) to the Badenoch Trust. No other Reform MSP has done anything similar, and there is no party-wide policy.Emphasis on Offord’s arrangement.

This has been widely criticised as a less-than-admirable scam. Offord personally controls the tiny Badenoch Trust (director, secretary, and controlling trustee; the only other trustee is his personal assistant).

The charity is registered only in England & Wales, operates from his Edinburgh office, and was never registered with OSCR (Scotland’s regulator) despite operating solely in Scotland.

OSCR opened a formal inquiry in May 2026 and ordered it to register. No donations have been publicly confirmed yet. Critics call it self-dealing: public money routed through a vehicle Offord controls with minimal oversight and clear regulatory breach.

Pros & Cons comparison
SNP approach
Pros: Long-term (17 years), collective, fully transparent and auditable, money goes directly to the public purse — genuine, verifiable sacrifice.
Cons: Limited to ministers only; total sum modest compared to Scotland’s budget; partial U-turn in 2025 looks opportunistic.

Reform/Offord approach
Pros: Bolder on paper — full salary donation.
Cons: Individual only, unproven, routed through a self-controlled charity in regulatory breach — lacks independence, transparency, and credibility. Far more optics than substance.

Bottom line: The SNP’s policy is clearly the stronger, more admirable, and fully auditable example of politician restraint. Offord’s pledge collapses under scrutiny into something far more dubious.

Credit: @CMS481 for original post/research.

(Photo of Offord Parody, Satire)

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[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Too much of our public funding is going to private companies to make massive profits to give to their shareholders"

Spot on @KimJohnsonMP

Keir Starmer promised that Labour would launch the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation. But like with everything else, he was lying.

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

As angry and annoyed as you might be after the SNPBad carpet bombing by BBC Scotland and its BritNat newspaper allies, remember this, it's nothing to how bad *they* felt when the SNP won 58 seats *and* the biggest pro-Indy majority ever. And they've got five years to stew.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

It’s begun: The Great Rewriting of History by the politicians, journalists, media commentators who stayed quiet over Gaza to keep climbing the greasy pole - while a handful of us who spoke-up were smeared, abused, or fired.

As @Hamza_a96 says, don’t let them do it:

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

Don't think we've ever heard BritNat Breakfast presenter Laura Maciver interrupt an interviewee as often as she did with Angela Constance. Maciver rarely interrupts during interviews but she seemed pumped for this one. SNP interviewees have that effect on many BBC interviewers. Their tone, pace and aggression rises.

[JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @MrJohnNicolson]

“Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander met with Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm to discuss policy within weeks of becoming a minister.”

But Alexander failed to declare the meeting (as he was required to do) for a year and a half.

Exclusive from BBC’s @PGourtsoyannis

[Bill Cruickshank @BjCruickshank]

As a long time member of @theSNP I am disgusted & betrayed by Murrell, but I would never paint a target on his back & put him in potential danger: https://t.co/ZqruFyHK9G The Rancid has gone way beyond normal reporting. An "inquiry" into its so called journalism is badly needed.

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

The Radio BritNat phone-in for the third day in a row is projecting a situation in England onto Scotland. This time it's a pro-Israel propaganda announcement by the UK Labour Govt. This is how your TV licence cash is being spent. Can we have an investigation into BBC Scotland?

[Bill Cruickshank @BjCruickshank]

The British Anglo State media has been non-stop Murrell for 10 days now. When are they going to call for an inquiry into Starmer, Alexander & Mandelson? https://t.co/Mj1Qa9aP8I

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

BBC reporter Andrew Kerr asks if the Scottish Greens are "the SNP's little helpers". The ever gormless Kerr demonstrating once again the juvenile tabloid bias that infects much of BBC BritNat's political output these days. Is Andrew the BritNat's little helper? Seems like it.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

The Guardian reports that Reform UK have got

Another £3m from foreign based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne

And £4m from another crypto billionaire Ben Delo