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Mark Stephens
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Mark Stephens
@MarkStephens64
Academic (housing, poverty). Accidental community activist. Quakerish. Tweets personal. “Professor Stephens was unimpressed." - The Times
Scotland Bergabung Ağustos 2009
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@MonicaLennon7 Doubtless improving all these things will cost money. The Scottish Fiscal Commission identified a £4.7 bn black hole by the end of the next Parliament. So where will you get the money from? (And don’t say efficiency savings - they never deliver.)
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In Rutherglen and Cambuslang, join my campaign to replace a former SNP mental health minister who failed thousands of Scots when they needed urgent support.
After 19 years of tired SNP government, vote Scottish Labour on 7 May for real change that will improve lives. 👇
Anas Sarwar@AnasSarwar
As First Minister I will end the SNP’s scandalous failures on young people’s mental health. Scottish Labour will introduce a national neurodiversity pathway, immediate CAMHS support and community link workers.
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@gorbalsgoebbels Funnily enough Scotland experienced a net inflow of taxpayers. Maybe there’s more to life than the marginal tax rate.
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We are taxed more in Scotland than in the rest of the country.
Hard work delivers less in Natland.
Swinney is the fuckwit who keeps on giving.
He thinks he’s progressive, but scratch the surface and he’s another Farage.
A toxic nationalist.
John Swinney@JohnSwinney
I’m fed up with the Westminster system that means hard work delivers less and less, while people’s energy and food costs just keep going up. The fresh start of independence would mean we can use Scotland’s resources to benefit Scotland’s people. #BothVotesSNP on May 7th. 🏴
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@hussainlabour @zubirahmed @johnadgrady The “family doctor” went out when Labour forced local GP practices into mergers 25 years ago. It’s been lucky dip ever since.
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For those who already know me - and for those I’m still to meet…
I’m proud to be standing as Scottish Labour’s candidate for Glasgow Southside🌹🏴
I’ll be out every day making the case for real change here in the Southside.
Hussain for Southside, let’s make it happen!
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@jruddy99 I’m waiting for the UK government to deliver economic growth, not take away jury trials.
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I'm waiting for them to deliver the free Bike and Laptop for my kids.
The Herald@heraldscotland
The SNP will deliver a 'revolution in childcare' if it wins the Scottish Parliament elections, the party has promised 👇 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴
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@alanferrier Embarrassing promotion of frankly offensive and deranged havering. Not even presented as a quotation.
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@heraldscotland "The drowning man will always try and drag someone down with him.”
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Anas Sarwar has promised to end the SNP’s 'scandalous' failures on mental health support for young Scots 👇
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@jackmcconnelDG @ScottishLabour Previously the clue was in PFI. Remember?
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The clue’s in the name with @ScottishLabour.
Anas Sarwar@AnasSarwar
I will use public contracts to back Scottish jobs, Scottish businesses and Scottish communities.
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@LizzieLabour So if Sarwar needed Reform votes to be elected FM, he would not accept them, even if they were offered with no deal?
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John Swinney scaremongering that Scottish Labour will do a deal with Reform after this 👇 If that’s his logic, you have to ask yourself how it makes any sense - and whether that’s really the judgement Scotland needs in a First Minister
Paul Hutcheon@paulhutcheon
NEW: Reform candidate Thomas Kerr refuses to rule out bringing back a notorious advert on Anas Sarwar in relation to his Pakistani heritage. They spent thousands on the ad in a by election last year.
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@richardmarcj Decline in trade unions which provided a structure through which both to gain political skills and route to candidature? That and the Methodist church, which was important for values and lay preaching skills (notably Bevin).
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Why do they keep saying this??
Every member of this Cabinet comes from a middle-class profession: a lawyer or worked in politics, public affairs, or finance.
Not a single one has a working-class occupational background.
This is the *least* working-class Labour Cabinet ever.
The Labour Party@UKLabour
This Labour Government is the most working-class government in the history of the UK.
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@KennyFarq I think it’s one of those competitions where you have to complete the sentence (“fun for all the family”) in no more than 15 words. “Let’s demand better ….. schools, hospitals and deposit return schemes!” Not very imaginative, but you get the idea.
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The slogan of the Scottish Greens, as set out on the list ballot paper, is "Let's Demand Better". Ungrammatical. Nonsensical. Confusing. A classic case of political campaigning decided by committee.
Andrew Learmonth@andrewlearmonth
Glasgow nominations for the Holyrood election are out. The far-right Independent Green Voice is back. In 2021, this fake party, led by a Holocaust denier thrown out of UKIP, probably cost the Scottish Greens two MSPs.
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NEW: Opposition parties demand clarity from govt over the exit of nuclear-armed submarine captain from his role, following investigation into relationship with Labour MP Joani Reid
as.ft.com/r/5054f97b-ece…
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@LeeDavidEvansUK @richardmarcj A shame you did Profumo so recently.
Lucy Fisher@LOS_Fisher
🚨EXC: The captain of one of Britain’s nuclear-armed submarines has stepped back from his role this week after being investigated over his relationship with Joani Reid, the Labour MP whose husband has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China as.ft.com/r/dfb74254-809…
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@LOS_Fisher A very British scandal in the tradition of Profumo and Thorpe.
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This (below) is from my original story
Reid and this captain had known each other since they were young adults, and got in touch again via messaging *after* her visit to the base
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👀 Labour MP Joani Reid has had interactions with TWO SEPARATE senior naval officers connected to the UK nuclear deterrent
This excellent story by @AVMikhailova refers to an episode w/ an officer at Faslane (V-boat captain in my story was not present)
thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
Lucy Fisher@LOS_Fisher
🚨EXC: The captain of one of Britain’s nuclear-armed submarines has stepped back from his role this week after being investigated over his relationship with Joani Reid, the Labour MP whose husband has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China as.ft.com/r/dfb74254-809…
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@heraldscotland @SarahLudford Kate Forbes was hounded all the way to holding two of the most senior cabinet posts - finance and deputy first minister. Jo Cherry lost her seat.
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'In 2014, the SNP and the wider Yes movement had a formidable team of top-tier performers led by Alex Salmond and his deputy Nicola Sturgeon before she became ruinously obsessed with gender ideology.
'This was before the hounding of women such as Joanna Cherry and Kate Forbes.' 👇
𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴
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@peter_tulip Addendum. Indeed tactical voting has become a national sport in an increasingly fragmented electoral landscape: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@peter_tulip 2/2 But we do sometimes get candidates winning on low % vote.
3/3 Would be fair to note we rejected AV (preferential voting in single member seats) in a referendum in 2011 - though mostly for fear of unclear overall results.
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The Independent, Lou Nicholson, wins the South Australian electorate of Finniss after coming fourth in first preferences.
Preferential voting delivers the least-hated (i.e. most moderate) candidate.
antonygreen.com.au/sa2026-finniss…
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@Tattysoup @Stephen4_2 It is. The song predates the closure of Ravenscrsig but few of my students had heard of that either. I used my course to teach Scottish history as well as urban economics!
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@MarkStephens64 @Stephen4_2 In proclaimers song letter to America if I remember right?
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Non football pic. It's the end for Linwood car plant in 1981. Was Rootes, later Chrysler then Peugeot Talbot. My uncle worked in there and was never the same after it closed. Many argue that the Linwood/Johnstone area has never recovered 45 years on. Anyone on here work in it ?
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