Angus Neilson

@Edinburgh_CC's axing existing operators. If people wonder why prices are crazy, it's because supply is being strangled. There are many reasons people do not want to stay in hotels. With under 1% of all housing allocated for full-time self-catering this will be an own goal.

There’s a clear inconsistency in criticising self-catering businesses for generating income from property while personally benefiting from property investment. That undermines the credibility of the Greens argument. #SaveSC

@kellyherbert7 @McivorJaymey @marksandspencer @GBNEWS The irony of insisting a pagan symbol made of a substance discovered in a pagan country at least a century and a half after the event being comemerated is special

Any chance I can get an Easter Egg please M&S? Will they ever learn 🙈 It’s like they do it on purpose to offend. Easter is not National Chocolate Day. Which extremists are you trying hard to not offend? @marksandspencer @GBNEWS

@kellyherbert7 @McivorJaymey @marksandspencer @GBNEWS Logically that means any Easter egg you buy will be labelled as an Easter egg? So any Easter egg you buy is an Easter egg so is this not a superfluous statement?

@EidynConnect @Lastholidayhome @GildedLily13 Not what Lord Braid said in the judicial review he said retrospect application of planning was illogical and unfair

@Lastholidayhome @GildedLily13 Laws change all the time. It’s not a total ban. It was time to put resident welfare first. The expansion of profiteering landlords into residential houses had to be controlled. It should have been done years ago. You can only get a license if you have permission for change of use

The decision says guests are “likely” … “Likely” to cause disturbance… “Likely” to increase activity… Planning permission refused on possibilities, not evidence. Edinburgh Council will not likely get sued I suppose? #VisitEdinburgh #SaveSC

@Bristol_Matt05 @TheRealJamieKay Nonsense ma y come here to work with no need or intention to become citizens. They have a visa to work.

@TheRealJamieKay You cannot be an immigrant in a country where you cannot become a citizen. You are a resident and a visa holder in the UAE. Immigrants in the UK are seeking citizenship. Big difference. Every person in the UAE is there on condition that they contribute

Ex-pats? Surely, Isabel means ‘immigrants’?

@EdinburghGreens @ETAG_UK @EdinburghLibDem @Edinburgh_CC @EdinburghLabour @EdinburghTories @ASSCnews #SaveSC  @scotlibdems @BrianDonnellyHT @EdinInquirer @ianswansonen @DickinsEdin #SaveSC @FSB_GarryC @scottishlabour @ScotTories @theSNP @murdo_fraser @djohnsonmsp @willie_rennie

This has been going on consistently ever since the introduction of short-term licencing for legit local S/C operators. We've a two-tier system where law breakers operate with impunity & those who abide by the law are shut down using Machiavellian means. #SaveSC @Edinburgh_CC

In #Edinburgh well under 1% of property makes up secondary lets, what we used to call full-time self-catering. Yet, despite their huge economic benefit to our city, they are being hunted & killed for sport at @Edinburgh_CC, while dodgy below the radar operators flourish. #SaveSC

So now shower singing = proof of holidaymakers? Cities have always had visitors. Short-term lets support local jobs, local businesses and tourism. Let’s stop blaming guests for housing problems they didn’t create. edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh… @FionaCampbell74 @SaveSCScotland

@oldtownrez @theSNP @MairiMcAllan @_KateForbes We had a Festival guest who stayed every year for 7 years. Last year we couldn’t give him a booking far in advance as we didn’t know if we could operate. He booked a hotel. Didn’t enjoy it and he and his family are not coming this year @SaveSCScotland @_KateForbes @VoteEwing

@thesnp STL Licensing regime now impacting the Edinburgh Festival with a 40,000 drop in visitors. Loss of income to the local economy will be millions. Over regulation has economic consequences. @MairiMcAllan @_KateForbes scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu…

@hackhilarity @jk_rowling And that would protect them against Ghislaine Maxwell how exactly?

J.K. Rowling has spent decades and millions protecting vulnerable children through Lumos, fighting child trafficking & institutional abuse worldwide. The same people screaming 'Epstein!' now spent years calling her a bigot for wanting to safeguard girls' single-sex spaces. Funny how the 'protect kids' crowd only cares when it can weaponize a dead predator against the woman actually doing the work. Insane hypocrisy. She's one of the biggest, most consistent voices for real child safety on the planet. Full stop.@jk_rowling

This is beyond silly. Neither I, nor anybody on my team, ever met, communicated with or invited Jeffrey Epstein to anything.

All for laws but what happens if you bring in a law and dont enforce it. The law abiding pay the price and no one benefits

@Christine726508 @allenanalysis That's what nato is for

@allenanalysis Stay with Denmark and end up owned by Russia or China.

NOW: Denmark’s Foreign Minister after the Greenland meeting: “It’s clear the president has a wish to conquer Greenland.” That’s not diplomacy. That’s colonial language, out loud.

Here we go again. Legit licensed self-catering being axed by @edinburgh_CC while black market gears itself up for another year of bumper biz. Unlicensed, unsafe & deeply unfair on those trying to play by a one-sided rulebook. #SaveSC

@kemp1888 @SaveSCScotland @Edinburgh_CC @scotgov What is a "real" business? I would say one that pays tax and provides employment? If so self catering is that so what is your issue?

@SaveSCScotland @Edinburgh_CC @scotgov 😂😂😂 you still around why not just get a real business or work that occupies the hours?

Says all that has been said yet fallen on deaf ears in @Edinburgh_CC & at the @scotgov, two old hands in the art of unintended consequences & harming local people's livelihoods. #SaveSC shorttermrentalz.com/news/lisbon-li…

@Jenny_1884 That's not true and you know it but while on the subject my wife retired after over 35 years as a nurse in the NHS and her retirement event was over zoom meanwhile Boris was having leaving events (totsl piss ups) for people that worked for months for him.

What I don’t get is Boris Johnson was ousted for supposedly eating a piece of cake & here we are with Keir Starmer doing far far worse & is still in his job. Who’s protecting him & why?

@AuthenticSafety @TonysimpsonTony @BGatesIsaPyscho Any evidence of that ?

@TonysimpsonTony @BGatesIsaPyscho It’s really a 15 mins prison. Restricted to how far you can go. Maybe you remember this is what happened during the pandemic. And now they have the digital infrastructure to enforce, which was installed during 2020 Lockdown: a prison term in case you were wondering.

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Glasgow Council approves plans for it to become a ‘15 Minute City’ in Scotland Remember when y’all just labelled WEF’s 15 Minute Cities another as a Conspiracy. Conspiracy Theorists remain undefeated.

@TwittterMachine @dave43law @BoLoudon Given the inbreeding maybe make it to 11 or 12

@dave43law @BoLoudon You expect these kinds of morons to understand maths? They can't count past ten without taking their socks off

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