Steve Plater

European, Geordie Celt & New Scot, retired diplomat, PhD in solar PV, crossworder, quizzer, asker of awkward questions. 🇯🇵🇩🇪🇸🇪

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

@indyscot12 With all these authoritarian pronouncements, does he think he's Napoleon? Or maybe we should dub him StarLin.

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

Calling Conservatives in SNP/Lab marginals in Scotland. Please consider lending your vote to SNP this once – to hold Labour back and avoid landslide. Thanks.

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

We're supposed to vote Lab for 'change'. What change? Oh, "the change Scotland needs". And what is that?? Without specifics + commitments, it's just a fluffy pink cloud. Whereas the SNP-led govt has delivered a raft of actual benefits. Vote SNP to keep them.

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

Do you want to gamble those real, delivered benefits – for some unspecified nebulous 'change'?

[Rosemarie and Owen Kelly @rosemarie_kelly]

@ScotNational

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

@JimmyMcd62 And how long before they come for the most precious resource of all – our clean, fresh water ?

[BothwellIndependista @arichmondScot]

Tomorrow let’s show the Tories and Labour that their lies, scare mongering and spin have all been to no avail. As #ScottishIndependence supporters let’s unite and #VoteSNP. @theSNP may not be perfect, but in a FPTP election any other vote will be taken as a vote for the union.

[Pete Wishart @PeteWishart]

Always remember that Alba is not an independence party. They are an anti SNP one who would rather see unionists elected than independence supporting MPs. Some Alba /Wings supporters have spent this election posting disgusting hate about the SNP. Never vote for them.

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

@smileyrach2 Authorise the US Navy to use Mar-a-Lago as a firing range for bombardment practice.

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

@glassrod57 @80_mcswan Pollsters + media have relentlessly tried to build a narrative of a supposed 'surge to Lab'. Surmise their aim is to get undecideds to perceive a bandwagon & 'vote for the winner'. But, folk are no daft....

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

@Pumpkinz16 How can it be a legitimate presidential function to try to overturn a legitimate election result?? SCOTUS should form their own party, as they are evidently politicians, not jurists.

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

@dorfman_p An idea: Joe offers "Hey Don, we both stand down – and I'll pardon you after the election as still sitting President.". Who would then be the Dem and Rep candidates?

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

@deelomas If you're in a Tory held constituency in Scotland, to GTTO vote SNP as by far closest challenger. Any vote for Lab or LD simply helps the Tory to survive.

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

@JohnSwinney I understood the Parliament to have been suspended, not abolished, in 1707 – then resumed sesssion in 1999. In which case, it could repeal the Act of Union and thereby end it? [SNP member]

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

@Elemjay1 My will says 'promession': use viable bits for transplant + research; the rest, freeze-dry in liquid N, extract toxic stuff e.g. mercury fillings & pulverise; leaves a shoebox full, to use as tree fertiliser.

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

@Pumpkinz16 Easy: "Good news – no need to wait any longer for your surgery appointment. We've scheduled it for 22 July.... 2026."

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

@larsen_hb To protect precious plants, dried coffee grounds or sawdust will stop slugs; but only temp, as rain/watering renders ineffective. We'd love hedgehogs, but access for them would let the ravaging rabbits in....

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

@GreyPict It's a con, IMO. Lab expect each voter to assume that the unspecified 'change' would be in what they care about: NHS, education, roads, arts funding, whatever. But without specific pledges = gamble, esp cf with SNP solid record of actual delivery.

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

@cookiris14 @paul_sandars They still haven't realised that postal votes delays are because the SNP have stolen all the stamps (and hidden them in the roof of the camper van).

[Steve Plater @steve7oaks]

@miketor63 Edison saw it in 1931: "I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power!" Or as I like to call it, the International Fusion Reactor: functioning reliably for many years, safely located, available to all.