The Radio BritNat phone-in is discussing Starmer ... or is supposed to. It's just had a caller attacking John Swinney and falsely claiming the FM is "disenfranchising" Reform voters. Swinney hasn't deprived anyone of their vote or their rights. It wasn't challenged.
Serious fake accusations like this should be stamped on immediately when made on live radio or TV. No one is served by allowing disinformation like this to be aired.
Labour have set up a £500 million taxpayer funded AI fund called the Sovereign AI fund.
It will be run by Suzanne Ashman who ‘just happens’ to be Tony Blair’s daughter in law🙄
Labour say that there is no conflict of interest.
I say that there is and this is blatant nepotism🤨
Five PMs in four years. Six in ten years. Brexit chaos.
Remember when the Better Together lot told us we should vote against independence for continued EU membership, financial prosperity, and political stability?
#ScottishIndependence2026
Glasgow's 'Super-hospital' is safer than the average in Scotland much safer than many in England and has been so for many years - this is a BBC 'Witch hunt' https://t.co/QWb1PokJa4
Is this the same Malcolm Offord who publicly declared during a televised election debate that he would rather stick pins in his eyes than world with The SNP🏴GOV🤔
SO🤔He got exactly for what he wanted
&
is now complaining
“It’s disrespectful” @JohnSwinney won’t work with him😂
The British media is doing everything it can to make this mendacious, corrupt, incompetent, lazy, security risk the PM. Ask yourselves why? Why do they want that so badly, who benefits? It's not going to be the British people.
Follow the money, always follow the money.
With Keir Starmer in meltdown mode, this man is being presented as the saviour of the Labour Party.
But did you know that last time Andy Burnham stood for leader, he pledged that his FIRST foreign trip would be to Israel?
Here’s what else I’ve discovered:🧵
Here's Gary Robertson trying to delegitimise a clear cut election mandate by claiming turnout was too low and by aggregating party votes into a national total - something that does not happen in elections, only referendums. This is dishonest.
This isn't interviewing. It's an attempt to mislead the public by disguising disinformation as a question. It happens all too often on BBC Scotland.
This is Lord Rothermere the owner of the Daily Mail.
He lives in a massive mansion in the English countryside, but he pays no tax here because he identifies as French.
While the Daily Mail is registered in Bermuda and pays no tax anywhere.
That is his ‘Patriotism’.
King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £125m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed.
But he still needed a 45% pay rise.
Like if he needs a pay cut.
RT if you want the Monarchy gone.
#NotmyKing#AbolishTheMonarchy
If Reform had won, they'd have claimed a massive mandate to make any changes they wanted without engaging "anyone"
They have openly stated they want to remove powers, and undo devolution. Why would any true Scottish Government deal with a party that wants to close down Holyrood?
Hey @BBCNews , got a story for you!
About 11 reform new councillors have stepped down or been expelled already!
It will cost a lot to elect new ones. How about running that as a story, just for a smidgen of impartiality?
Any decent Labour would have crossed over to SNP by now. They dont care about Scotland . They would rather far right rule than their own countries independence #independence 🏴
Glenn Campbell's analysis of the Swinney/Starmer meeting on BritNat Breakfast this morning was predictably poor. He said Swinney maybe hasn't got as much as he thinks. Swinney has got *exactly* what he wanted. The constitution will be raised by the FM. It'll dominate coverage of the talks.
One of the things that we've noticed with respect to Scottish political journalism is the very poor analysis from senior reporters. They never saw Scottish Labour's capitulation until the final days despite social media predicting it immediately after Starmer's 2024 landslide. We said last September Sarwar was cooked and Starmer would be gone within a year.
Campbell's analysis has been dreadful in recent years. He foolishly claimed Rachel Reeves' first budget in Oct 2024 was going to define the 2026 Holyrood election and help Sarwar, despite nobody knowing how it was going to pan out and there being another budget scheduled for 2025.
Paul Hutcheon was still punting the idea of a FM Sarwar in the middle of the Holyrood campaign despite the motormouth being well behind. Gina Davidson of LBC laughably concluded pre-vote that a 62 seat victory would be a poor result for Swinney.
A pro-Union culture runs through the Scottish political media and renders it unable to see the truth. A desire to please their paymasters leads to group-think and bizarre conclusions/analysis that makes them look foolish.
On May 3rd businesswoman Marie Macklin appeared on The Sunday Show to discuss criticism of Malcom Offord. She was presented as neutral. She attacked Ross Greer and the SNP. The day after the vote she revealed she was a good friend of Offord and supported him during the campaign.
Once again BBC Scotland has questions to answer about the presentation of guests as neutral on political programmes when they are anything but. In this case it's worse given Macklin appeared during an actual election campaign and made several politically motivated comments that favoured Reform and negatively impacted the Greens and SNP.
As Starmer follows the string of Tory PMs who've failed to revive the UK economy, Scotland continues to suffer the consequences of voting ' No' in the 2014 Referendum.
Palantir has been granted “unlimited access” to NHS patient data.
This is the same company that is involved in mass surveillance and genocide.
We did not consent to this. Get Palantir out of our NHS, now.