I see that #RishiSunak is worried that people might draw the conclusion the the potential #India-UK trade deal which might significantly benefit #InfoSys - you'll recall Mrs Sunak is a major shareholder in the firm - indicates that he has a conflict of interest...
No, we don't think there is a conflict of interest, its already clear that he & his #Tory chums are running the country in their interest - there's no 'conflict', more an even more obvious illustration of #ToryCorruption, that's all!
@ChrisMayLA6 The #Tories know the odds are they'll be out of office after the next GE. I get the impression that they're just playing for time whilst creaming off as much as the possibly can for themselves and their chums.
Meanwhile #Starmer is meeting all their Establishment buddies in preparation for his turn at the trough.
Latest Survation poll, conducted for True North, spells doom for @the SNP with Labour catching up fast and likely to be level on Westminster seats and making substantial gains at Holyrood.
Really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this noo. Crying about wellies for inspections while yer man Sunak is roaring about in a private jet, giving 4k a day to the UKIP supporters who own Portland Port, 20k a day to slaveowner founded Bibby Marine.
"A book about Marxism and 21 copies of "How to run a government so that citizens benefit and taxpayers don't go crazy" were also purchased."
Shettleston councillor Thomas Kerr steps into the ring, fresh from all the crying about his constituents being anti-English (which went down just as well as you'd imagine). Seems certain at this point Labour will take the seat but the pre-emptive crowing about the rest seems misguided. Justified resentment of one SNP MP is not likely to carry Labour through in other places. And if they don't get the seat it would be genuinely funny, at least.
This is no comment on the #SNP corruption case, which is rightfully investigated, but - #Sunak’s corruption is orders of magnitude higher than #Surgeon’s, with much more severe consequences for the planet.
The SNP case appears as an indictment of Scottish nationalism, while the Tories’ move seems to self-justify might-makes-right politics. Ideology at its finest.
"The American system does not favour third-party candidates: they typically cost established candidates elections rather than having a chance of winning.
Third parties are commonplace in Europe, such as the UK’s Liberal Democrats." -- The Monocle Minute
Oh, you mean the Liberal Government of 1906? 🤔 Or the Conservative-led coalition in 2010? 😆
Pretty sure the third party in the UK for this century is the SNP 😏
While Just Stop Oil is in the news... Your regular reminder that "Policy Exchange" is a Tory mouthpiece - they get some oil-funded dweeb to write a paper about legislation they want to make, present it to the Tories, the Tories claim this is evidence and make it law. Your not so regular reminder that Joanna Cherry works for Policy Exchange drafting anti-trans legislation, strange thing for an indy supporting MP to do, don't you think?
While we're all incensed about Keir Starmer's U-turn on the 2-child limit... Child benefit is reserved to Westminster so Scot.gov cannot change it but the SNP brought in the Scottish Child Payment to try and offset it.
Posting this because I have seen the odd #Labour person on social media saying Scot.gov have the power to scrap it (they don't), like this is some kinda gotcha (it isn't).
Police Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone maintains that erecting a “dead body tent” in front of Nicola Sturgeon’s house was “proportionate”. That, and sending in 20 cops wearing stab vests…
Not proportionate, Iain old boy—theatre. Just theatre.
I get that 'vote SNP - it's less bad than the alternative' is a difficult sell sometimes, but #SNP/ #Green is the best route to #Scottish#Independence, SNP fragments to it's constituent parts and we all get to vote for whom we want.... And be part of a proper grown up, democratic, left leaning, Nordic, European country. #KeepTheFaith#ScottishIndependence#ToriesOut#RedToriesOut
It's maddening that this is the thing the SNP found over the line. MacNeil has run over a 17 yr old, had an affair with a journo and put the hotel bills on his expenses, got two teenagers drunk and tried having sex with them while his wife was in hospital giving birth (!) and probably much more we don't know about.
"Angus MacNeil has been suspended from the SNP after not taking up an offer to rejoin the party's Westminster group."
Fed up with these ‘why are so many SNP MPs standing down?’ pieces just now. We got this in the run up to 2021 as well.
Hint: only one announcement has come from someone below retirement age & today’s announcement is from someone who is already 72! What the hell does anyone expect? #SNP#SNPMPs
If you've seen the screaming "Scottish" Daily Express headline about baby boxes today. Here is the actual paper where they associate the programme with a small decrease in smoking and a small increase in breastfeeding. Cherrypicking one thing that needs more work is a deliberate tactic of right-wing newspapers.
"Mechanisms mediating these effects... require further investigation."
This may be of interest to those who follow Scottish politics. A rare in-depth interview with former Special Adviser (Spad) and political strategist, Liz Lloyd, who worked closely alongside Nicola Sturgeon for years.
There are two few interviews with women who have held these influential jobs behind-the-scenes. This is an interesting listen for that aspect alone.
While all the focus is on #Tory MPs quitting before the next #GeneralElection, there is a growing number of #SNP MPs who are also looking for the exit.
#MhariBlack is the most high profile to announce this, since former Commons leader #IanBlackford.
But why? Presumably, like the Tory MPs, they know there's a massive electoral drubbing on its way.
The interesting question is what Black will do next. #Holyrood, perchance?
She can now stand as an MSP at the next #ScottishElections, and at some point, stand for Leader of the #SNP (#FirstMinister, if they retain power that long).
And she WOULD take us out of the toxic "Union."
No fucking around appeasing another country's laws preventing us from even trying.
Something Lesley Riddoch said towards the end of last night's meeting in Castle Douglas made me think: now that Peter Murrell's gone, is it time for folk on the left (like me) to rejoin the #SNP and try to push for a #RadicalIndependence policy?
I remain convinced that the majority for #ScottishIndependence is on the left, and that it's by creating a strong radical left vision based on #GreenNewDeal and #LandReform that we'll win.