Susan

Retired council comms. Carer. Believer in solidarity & sharing between all parts of the UK. Tam Dalyell was not wrong.
#Stirling #Aberdeen #Halifax

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

"And so I’ll continue to speak out, continue to use my money to help women who otherwise couldn’t afford to go to court, and continue to ensure that women in my area can still access female-delivered, female-centred support after rape."
Thank you, @jk_rowling

[Susan @snapperup]

There is mealy mouthed and then there is John Swinney's 2024 statement about what a woman is:
"I believe a woman is an adult female born as a woman, and I also accept that transgender women are defined as women."

[Susan @snapperup]

@wyllie_cameron @HolyroodSources Ah yes, getting muddled!

[Susan @snapperup]

Interesting critique by Geoff Aberdein on @HolyroodSources of contributions by MSPs L Bird and J Middleton at/around SNP conference. He didn't want to use the word 'arrogance' about the general 'we're just about there' message, but that's what it sounded very much like to me.

[Susan @snapperup]

@GlennGlennReal @ScotNational 🤣

[Naomi Cunningham @LoudBonnet]

This is an interesting idea. What's special about sex characteristics that our culture thinks its ok to destroy or maim them?

[Susan @snapperup]

Totally w @geoffaberdein @HolyroodSources - he's given up on overly & (imo) inappropriately jovial new version of 'Good Morning Scotland' @BBCRadioScot. I heard what BBC Scotland boss Hayley Valentine said on 'Scotcast' about a friendly tone across network. Not for news, please.

[Susan @snapperup]

Burnham is so right about loud music on trains. Team Badenoch read this one wrong.

[Naomi Cunningham @LoudBonnet]

"I think it is an astonishing and audacious power-grab to announce your (ungrammatical) pronouns and expect others to use them. I don’t think anyone is entitled to exercise that kind of detailed control over other people’s speech."

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

It must have been a different John Swinney who said in February 2025 that blocking Jackdaw was “the only sustainable judgment you can arrive at in considering these questions".

[Susan @snapperup]

@lucyidunn Well said.

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

Claiming the Prime Minister “does not understand Scotland” simply because he refuses to indulge your single-issue constitutional obsession is a peak nationalist level of entitlement😂.
The SNP was absolutely decimated at the ballot box, losing the vast majority of its MPs because the Scottish public explicitly rejected your endless constitutional grievances in favour of actual governance. Burnham wanting a “collaborative, practical and pragmatic” relationship to fix the economy and public services isn't a failure to understand Scotland; it is a direct recognition that the SNP no longer speaks for the majority of it.

[Neil Findlay @Neilsocialist]

Following the publication of the Covid report on the care homes scandal can anyone help me out and point me to any subsequent statement from:

Nicola Sturgeon
Humza Yousaf
John Swinney
Angela Constance

[Susan @snapperup]

@JohnSwinney Your party has ignored Aberdeen and the North East for years.

[Susan @snapperup]

@SnpBaaaaad 👏

[Susan @snapperup]

The SNP never forgave BBC Scotland for (briefly but correctly) dropping daily coverage of the lunchtime Nicola Sturgeon Show.

[Colin Smith @NoteTaker_X]

You are standing in a £350m factory whose entire business model relies on Scotland being part of the UK. Sumitomo didn’t invest in the Cromarty Firth to sell high-voltage subsea cables to an isolated Scottish domestic market of 5 million people; they invested to supply the massive GB-wide National Grid and build the undersea transmission links powering the entire British economy. Scotland is an attractive inward investment destination precisely because international manufacturers gain direct, frictionless access to the UK’s 67-million-person internal market without customs borders, trade tariffs, or currency risk. Claiming this investment somehow proves the case for breaking away from the very domestic market that justified building it is a breathtaking dishonesty John.

[Chris McCall @Dennynews]

The Jackdaw gas field off the coast of Aberdeen will be formally approved tomorrow morning, the Record understands.

[Susan @snapperup]

@DavidHTower @jruddy99 😆💯

[Susan @snapperup]

The deliberate implication that you were the only one doing the official opening says everything.

[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

Great to open Sumitomo’s new subsea cable factory in the Highlands - bringing hundreds of new, well-paid jobs to the area and helping unlock Scotland’s huge offshore wind energy potential.

[Susan @snapperup]

@BBCNews Sir Ringo Starr.