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@IndyIsNormal @CatrionaStewart Exactly, I agree and I think the days of taking things at face value are gone. In fact it’s a necessary to know who funds and why ?

@larson07 @CatrionaStewart I agree. A few think tanks have made a point of being v transparent about who funds them… it really enhances their trustworthiness and credibility imo. If you choose not to do that… why not? What have they got to hide?

Pro-independence podcaster submits thorny FOI to Scottish gov and ... is offered a sit down with civil servants to help work it out Pro-union think tank asks for civil servant meeting to assist its FOI. Hard no. Bespoke service for some but not others? scotsman.com/news/politics/…

@IndyIsNormal @CatrionaStewart I’ve asked several times and for some reason they’re very shy about who funds them.An odd one,appears in a piece about ‘secret Scotland’but are not transparent about who funds them or whose agenda they’re promoting ?

@larson07 @CatrionaStewart It’s a fair point. He refused to answer me when I asked about that.

@AlMorrison14 @Malcolm_Offord Yeah but they’ll have all those millionaires with all the answers to keep them right or something …

@Malcolm_Offord Yeah and now we can imagine how these inexperienced “non politicos” will collapse under the pressure of taking on a job they have no idea how to carry out The incompetence of Reform councillors in England confirms it Don’t let these chancers anywhere near power in Scotland

If we want ordinary people as candidates for the Scottish Parliament, rather than the usual intake of airbrushed politicos, we can’t punish them for every unguarded thing they’ve said in the past. 80% of our candidates have never been politicians before, so have not been as careful as the usual would-be MSP. Yet still, the media have shown desperation, taking comments out of context and even picking out individual words to try and put them in a misleading light. Today, some of our candidates were even smeared by the media for being in an unofficial Facebook group of people who sympathise with Reform – a group not even owned or moderated by the party, which has over 13,000 participants and over 20 posts per DAY – for a handful of comments made by random other people in it. Our candidates had an inkling of the treatment they'd get at the hands of the media, and I hold them to a high standard for things they say and do as candidates. But I’ll not give in to such desperate smears. It’s all just Holyrood’s cushy club in action, terrified that we’re about to stop the gravy train in its tracks. They'll soon need to grow up, because we’ll be bringing some common sense and decency for a change.

This is what it's come to, opposition politicians actively trying to sabotage the Scottish Government and Parliament. Ridiculous immature behaviour.

@andrewlearmonth It proves Sarwar and Baillie repeatedly lied to QEUH families and parliament. Why not report that?

NEW: A second Tory MSP has been accused of using AI to generate hundreds of questions for the Scottish Government costing the public purse 'over £200,000 in one year'

@rowan9sam @CatrionaStewart No it’s ’These Islands ‘ who are very secretive about who funds them

@CatrionaStewart Is it old Manky Jaicket and his Force For Good madness?

80% of Keir Starmer’s 250 new NHS neighbourhood health centres will involve private partnerships. Why are none of the newspapers talking about this? 🚨 I’ve explained what we know so far - jujuliagrace.substack.com

80% of Keir Starmer’s 250 new NHS neighbourhood health centres will involve private partnerships. Why are none of the newspapers talking about this? 🚨

Bumper pay awards to FTSE100 bosses. Smith & Nephew CEO pay doubles to $15.3m. Similar story at BP, Shell, Rolls Royce and more. Average real pay for workers unchanged since 2008. Govts preach pay restraint to workers, silence on fat-cattery. archive.ph/w7OZJ

@marionmain3 You know I saw a tweet this am and her emotive phrase of ‘scars everywhere and my immediate thought was ‘what? No irn bru,tartan docs,scarf or some other patronising keech to go with her comment and then thought,can’t be ersed commenting . Nice to see i was right tho ‘

Rayner had tartan DMs, Phillipson Irn Bru Starmer had Tunnocks tea cakes & caramel logs. Is this Scotland at the beating heart of a Labour government or arrogance and condescension thinking we will be impressed? I hope Labour gets skelped on 7th May

@KeithGordon1047 @CallmeRayf @TedDitchburnNNP What was it 987 something like that from Douglas Lumsden? Eagerly await his analysis of the impact on the amount of salt sachets ordered for Holyrood

@CallmeRayf @TedDitchburnNNP They’re flooded with mind numbing stupid requests from opposition parties, journalists & political actors. Mental.

The SNP have created a sinister Secret Scotland, where freedom of information requests to Holyrood are routinely denied…unless you’re a nationalist.

@CallmeRayf Oh seriously ? Sam Taylor of’These Islands ‘in a piece about a ‘secret Scotland ‘? Who funds these Islands shooo 🤫can’t tell you , it’s funny enough - a secret

@BjCruickshank Hi from Norway. You guys should separate yourself from the UK somehow, do more with us, and Iceland.

@DarrensBestShot @buddiespaisley @Harryjwilliamss That’s the current system of devo. Massive councils where party come first . Why would we want anymore of it ?

@larson07 @buddiespaisley @Harryjwilliamss if you hate smaller areas being swept up into one big centralised all controlling office, I have really some bad news for you about what Holyrood is

Why would any one in Scotland vote for a party that wants to weaken its own powers?! Surely this policy is not a vote winner

@mehercle @IrisDuane The ‘real ‘ Parliament ? The one where the last lot tried to prorogue it and this lot got in without an actual strategy?The one where the public don’t actually know who they’re serving but recognise it ain’t us ? That one ?

@larson07 @IrisDuane I want all power passed back to the real Parliament . Shut the Shortbread Senate .

Over the last day Farage has called: - Welsh speakers, foreign language speakers. - For a removal of powers from the Scottish Parliament. Don’t be fooled, this is an outright attack on our democracy and the nations of the UK.

@mehercle @IrisDuane *passed*

@mehercle @IrisDuane As for terrible governance,devolution was deliberately set up by Westminster to restrict any kind of radical diversity from London. Power devolved is power retained wasn’t a slogan