Chris Blake

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Chris Blake

Chris Blake

@ChrisBlakeLBW

Geologist now working in the Timber Industry • Munro Bagger • 247/282 • Mostly mountains, cricket, football & politics.

Dingwall, Scotland Katılım Ağustos 2023
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Chris Blake
Chris Blake@ChrisBlakeLBW·
@JohnSwinney Wasnt it the SNP who put the kybosh on the Rosebank field? Make your mind up John.
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John Swinney
John Swinney@JohnSwinney·
We can’t let history repeat itself. Thatcher’s policies wiped out our industrial communities - Labour’s windfall tax is doing the same to today’s North Sea workers. Scrap it, save jobs and let Scotland build a fair transition into renewables.
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Chris Blake@ChrisBlakeLBW·
@LesleyRiddoch Half of Scotland? So you can only support the Scotland team if you support independence? What a completely weird take.
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Lesley Riddoch
Lesley Riddoch@LesleyRiddoch·
Listening to Radio Scotland phone-in. Tidal waves of repressed hope & joy unleashed. Have to write a column today. But sitting greetin, laughing and replaying vid of McTominay searching for his mum after that goal. Helps to hear half of Scotland is also awash with emotion. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Chris Blake@ChrisBlakeLBW·
@GillianMacMSP @scotgov Totally confused by your tweet, surely the Greens would want the closure of a heavily polluting plant?
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Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens
Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens@Gillian_Mackay1·
Workers in Mossmorran are being betrayed just as workers in Grangemouth were. @scotgov must urgently make a statement outlining how they plan to support the workers. We cannot lose yet more livelihoods to the whims of detached multi-millionaires. This is not a Just Transition!
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Chris Blake@ChrisBlakeLBW·
@_JamieMcIntyre @thebankscot @scotgov Despite the grant funding we simply aren’t planting enough comm. forests. 80% of low rise housing in Scotland is timber frame, yet we import all the timber from East Europe! If the @scotgov spent the money on planting instead of peat everything would be 👌
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Jamie McIntyre
Jamie McIntyre@_JamieMcIntyre·
@ChrisBlakeLBW @thebankscot @scotgov Exactly. So unless you're suggesting we shouldn't have public & community forestry, we need to fund it. Not use public funds to subsidise *commercial* forestry which is already grant funded *and* enjoys very generous tax advantages.
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Jamie McIntyre
Jamie McIntyre@_JamieMcIntyre·
Why does @thebankscot anticipate the quoted benefits - because Gresham House told them? Where is the independent oversight? By their own past admission, SNIB have no forestry expertise. And seemingly did not even consult @scotgov's own forestry department. scotsman.com/hays-way/scots…
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Chris Blake@ChrisBlakeLBW·
@_JamieMcIntyre @thebankscot @scotgov Public and community forestry doesn’t pay, it’s a money pit. No one has ever turned a profit from planting birch, oak and rowan. If this country wants to have the £1bil timber industry in 30 years we need to plant commercial forests now.
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Jamie McIntyre
Jamie McIntyre@_JamieMcIntyre·
@ChrisBlakeLBW @thebankscot @scotgov That doesn't address the issue that the money could have been used to support public & community forestry, whose benefits are more fairly shared. This was *public* money invested at the very same time public forestry budgets were slashed.
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Chris Blake
Chris Blake@ChrisBlakeLBW·
@AlexHartley93 It’s the equivalent of scheduling an outdoor pingpong tournament for February in Fort William.
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That’s So Village
That’s So Village@ThatsSoVillage·
What’s the most village thing that happened in your match at the weekend?
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Chris Blake@ChrisBlakeLBW·
@ThatsSoVillage We dropped the oppositions opening bat on 70, 120 and 175. He went on to score 215*. We lost 282-0 vs 235ao.
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That’s So Village
That’s So Village@ThatsSoVillage·
What’s the most village thing that happened in your match at the weekend?
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Chris Blake@ChrisBlakeLBW·
A disappointing result but was great to bat against a rising star of Scottish women’s cricket. I tried to see off Mollie but she got me with her last ball. This girl will go far, I’m sure of it! 🏏 #Cricket #nosca #WomensCricket
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Chris Blake@ChrisBlakeLBW·
Trip to see the Reds in Cincinnati. Rained off in the 6th… that’s not cricket! (Or is it? 😂)
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Chris Blake
Chris Blake@ChrisBlakeLBW·
Last climb before the weather broke.. Sgurr Alasdair on Skye. Mildly terrifying.
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