thomas g smillie

overweight,overworked, chef. saintjohnstone and scotland DM

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

Andy Burnham's social care plan for England doesn't include people under 65 but the Scottish scheme does.

Early prisoner release in England includes men convicted of domestic violence but the Scottish scheme doesn't.

The BBC doesn't always give the full picture.

[Dave Doogan MP @DaveDooganSNP]

🤥 In 2014, Scotland was told that our pensions were safe in the UK.

🥀 Now Labour is proposing changes that could leave Scottish pensioners £2,000 a year worse off to fund social care in England.

👊 Only the SNP will stand up for Scotland's pensioners!

[Míng Kerr⊗Normalist @Guiseppim]

When Scotland decided to roll out free care services, it did so from Scotland's fixed, devolved budget.
When England decides to roll out free care services, in England only, it does so by reducing the future pensions of all nations.
Pooling and sharing only ever goes one way...

[YES Brechin @BrechinYes2]

A care system for England Burnham style.
Do away with the pension triple lock so pensions don't increase too much.
Now Scots Welsh and N Irish pensioners will help pay for the English system. Nothing in this for them other than a smaller pension. England wants. England takes.

[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

I have received the first official estimate of the cost to Scotland's pensioners of the Prime Minister's attack on the triple lock.

It will take up to £4bn from Scotland's pensioners. And the Prime Minister plans to use it to pay for social care in England.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

Everyone keeps calling it a cost of living crisis.

But when companies keep raising prices while reporting record profits, maybe we should start calling it what it really feels like:

a cost of greed crisis.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Sheila McKenzie🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Sheilam19534814]

Time line for the day Mr Burnham's dad died

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿FM said Burnham will be the last UK PM at 9/10am

Statement of death made on news at around 3/4pm

Burnham is beneath contempt to use his dead dad to
attack🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿FM John Swinney
A repugnant & desperate stunt by an insecure & inept🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿PM😡

[Martin J Keatings 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MartinJKeatings]

I don't particularly like John Swinney as a politician. What I will give him his dues on is that when it comes to running the Scottish budget and mitigating the damage Westminster causes, he's bloody good with the numbers. It's his wheelhouse. He might be more Biege than...

[Linda McC. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @lindamccorr]

So Burnham is taking away the triple lock in pensions in order to fund social care for England as Scotland's is devolved. I don't suppose he even realised this he is so clueless a out Scotland.

[THE DAILY REBUTTAL TEAM @MaureenFairgri1]

JUST FACTS TO RP

[Dick Winchester 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @DickWinchester]

In Scotland personal care has been free for 24 years. It has not impacted the state pension but taxes are a little higher here for the better paid. Now, Westminster will restrict pension growth in Scotland to help pay for personal care in England.

You Yes yet?

@theSNP

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Dr. Ron Dickinson🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ron_dickinson]

So Scottish pensioners, "enjoying" lowest pensions of any developed economy with our particularly cold dark winters will lose our #TripleLock to help fund FREE CARE - FOR ENGLAND!!!

Does Burnham have ANY IDEA how this looks??

#DissolveTheAnglostate NOW

[Cú Chullain @paddyb53]

The SNP Govt made the choice of providing free Social Care to those who need it and properly fund it out of their budget. Scottish pensioners are now seeing the triple lock on their pensions taken away to provide free Social Care in England...seems fair enough...doesn't it.....?

[Dick Winchester 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @DickWinchester]

So the plan is to take money from Scottish pensioners to pay for the English social care system.

[Ronald McCallum @RonaldMcCallum1]

2014 Your pensions will be safe if you vote No.

2026 We're coming for your pension.

@UKLabour shafting Scots again.

[iScot Magazine @iScotNews]

All that unionist tsunami of propaganda to hammer home a contrived gotcha "You said once in a generation"

Yet, Lisa, right on cue..... 'promises not delivered' - like voting No to keep our EU citizenship, Lisa?
@iScotNews Feel free to circulate this bolt of truth.

[Biddim @RoyBertram4]

Labour to end Pension Triple lock
So 1.1 million Scottish pensioners are going to end up paying for English health care.
. Another robbery
FFS. - ARE YOU YES YET
HOW OFTEN DO YOU WANT TO BE KICKED WHEN DOWN?

[Lesley Riddoch @LesleyRiddoch]

Andy Burnham in leaders speech says he will abolish right to buy in England - but only for new homes. Scotgov abolished Thatchers disastrous policy completely in 2016. Just sayin

[Mhairi Hunter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @MhairiHunter]

Had an interesting conversation about the triple lock issue which highlighted some misconceptions I think so I'm going to do a wee thread. This is very polarised & pretty much a proxy war for generational conflict. My sympathies are with the younger generation generally. But ...>

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

What Sarwar pledged

Devolve drug law
Devolve employment law
GB Energy 53,000 jobs
Grangemouth
Immigration policy
Renewables revolution

What Labour delivered

No drug law
No employment law
No GB Energy jobs
Grangemouth closed
No immigration policy
Wind turbine factory vetoed