Michael Fleming

Internetworking Engineer.Normally moving 1s and 0s around for a living. When I'm not moving them I'm capturing them.

[Mark McLaughlin @MarkMcLaugh1in]

💬 @JohnSwinney today admitted there weren't "adequate controls" to prevent Murrell's thieving.

"The systems in place shouldn't have been able to be abused but they were."

I reminded him last week he said the systems did not fail.

Response: "DON'T PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH!"

[Michael Fleming @tenkrow]

@MarkMcLaugh1in @JohnSwinney Not a fair exchange, it’s recorded for anyone to view you arrogant tit.

[Matt Forde @mattforde]

This is what a severe allergic reaction to scrutiny looks like

[Michael Fleming @tenkrow]

@AndyBurnhamGM @afneil Sounds as desperate as the nationalists and that’s not a good look.

[Michael Fleming @tenkrow]

@CreativeDeduct @PeterStefanovi2 That’s because he doesn’t.

[Cath @rugbycath]

The state of this when asked a serious question in relation to the Supreme Court ruling. We're stuck with 💩 like this for the next 5 years. I absolutely despise the likes of @EmmaRoddickSNP She's just another serial grifter.

[James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @mr_james_c]

The thing about bond markets is that if Labour said:
"We're going to borrow this money to do a massive investment in nuclear energy, built to Korean standards, we're going to expand our airports and ports, renew and expand Britain's highway and rail systems, renew Britain's armed services and we're going to dramatically overhaul our planning and approvals system to do it rapidly"

Labour would get a very positive response from the markets and its borrowing rate would fall.

Unfortunately what Labour tells the markets is "we're going to borrow money and throw it at our client groups - welfare recipients, pensioners, the public sector and unions - basically the least productive members of society". Oddly enough this doesn't go down very well.

[Michael Fleming @tenkrow]

@LucyHunterB Seems par for the course, whole place is dysfunctional.

[Simon Forrest @SimonForrest11]

Edinburgh Airport, the most unpleasant and unwelcoming airport in the world.
A national embarrassment.

BBC News - Edinburgh Airport raises drop-off fees from £6 to £8.50
https://t.co/43aIeUhSPZ

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

Strap in: Follow one of our paratroopers from @16AirAssltBCT jumping in to Tristan da Cunha – one of the world’s most remote communities – to deliver vital medical support 🪂

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

Q Manivannan. Student visa holder. September 2021. Now MSP. £77,711 a year. No British citizenship. No permanent residency. Still temporary status. Still fundraising to stay.

A sitting lawmaker begging colleagues on party group chats for £2,089 and £5,047 just so he can stay in the job. It’s Kafkaesque if Kafka had a sense of humor. While British students carry £50k debt like shackles and families choose between food and rent, Holyrood pays a foreign national £77k to exist here while he begs for cash.

The SNP didn’t just open the door in 2020—they took it off the hinges. They deliberately changed the rules so non-citizens could stand for election. This was no accident. Try this in India, France, or America. You’d be in handcuffs and deported in 24 hours. In Scotland, they made it a career path.

In October 2023, while Scottish families worked double shifts and rationed just to survive, this MSP publicly supported vandalizing posters of Israeli hostages.

This isn't diversity, progress, or inclusion. It is institutional liquidation. This is a parliament so hollowed out and drained of purpose it can no longer protect its own citizens interests. The system isn’t broken, it’s working exactly as designed, just not for Scots. The rules were never written to protect you. They exist to erase and replace you.

[Jambo Smithy @JamboAldo]

@OlafSNP @JohnSwinney

[Bruce Bowman @boswelltoday]

@OlafSNP @JohnSwinney

[OCGLeaks @OCGLeaksUK]

@theSNP @JohnSwinney

[Michael Fleming @tenkrow]

@McAllister1973 Trump has just fucking told the world from the oval office why he removed the tariffs and it has fuck all to do with a visit Swinney made.

[Michael Fleming @tenkrow]

@EMackintosh1 @JohnSwinney @ScotchWhiskySWA This is a Senior special advisor paid from the public purse embarrassing herself. It had the sum total of zero to do with your boss, none nada.

[Donna-Louise @NoLongerTheFuzz]

1/ In January 2008, PC Neil Sampson walked towards a man with a knife. He took seven stab wounds doing it.
His dog Anya, already bleeding, kept hold of the attacker so her handler could live.

That same man, Essa Suleiman stabbed two people yesterday in a terror attack in Golders Green.

Here’s what happened next. 🧵

[Malcolm Offord MSP @Malcolm_Offord]

Come on board for a sail first Mr Greer, so you know what you’re taxing.

Here’s my biggest yacht. No beds or galley, so bring that wetsuit you're fond of wearing. Not even a loo, so be prepared to “bucket and chuck it"!

[Edward Chang #AbolishHolyrood @darknessintheg1]

It might come as a shock to him but to everyday Scots #RossGreer is the privileged one.Achieved nothing in his working life yet,because of a fatally flawed Electoral System,gets to Lecture the rest of us while coining in a salary most Scots can only dream of.All of which he has done the sum total of FUCK ALL to earn.

Privilege off the fucking charts.

[Michael Fleming @tenkrow]

@alextomo How fucking ignorant can a journalist be on a subject , step forward @Channel4News chief correspondent. Renewables, cheap. Go educate yourself.