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In 2007 Douglas Alexander said the only way to achieve Scottish independence was for the SNP to win a majority in a Holyrood election and then a majority in an Indyref. This could come back to haunt the new Scottish Secretary. He won't want this retweeted.

The SNP minority gov wanted to dual in 2007, but opposition parties voted for the money to be used for the Edinburgh tram project. Lib Dems described dualling as a “grand gesture” and that “it is important to break the link between economic growth and transport growth”. Oh dear

@iainmacwhirter Macwhirter’s excrement obsession endures..

Of all the issues facing the Scottish government, this should be the easiest to resolve. Just state clearly that you accept the Supreme Court ruling and that sex is binary. Everything else takes care of itself.

@magnusllewellin Meanwhile back in the land facts …. there are more Scottish pupils attending university than ever before and ScotGov funding for universities is at a record high. There is no stated intent by ScotGov to reduce the number of places available.

SNP ministers are planning to reduce the number of university places for Scottish students to offset budget cuts, documents suggest. thetimes.co.uk/article/709f04…

@CalumRoss23 For the hard of hearing at the back …. It’s Scottish councils who are responsible for delivery. The Scottish Government made the money available years ago ….. 🙄

The Scottish Government has not delivered any tablets or laptops to school pupils since the SNP's pledge in 2021 scotsman.com/education/snp-…

@alexmassie Alex Massie is paid to lie. That’s his job. So, I suppose he’s quite right when he says it’s absolutely not his job to respect the electorate’s political views…..

It’s not the media’s job - and it sure as hell ain’t mine - to ‘respect’ any political party’s ‘ambitions’ or ‘aspirations’ & those that routinely conflate their party’s goals with those of the nation as a whole merit particular contempt.

@DeanMThomson Good reasons why energy-rich Scotland neither needs, nor should want, to produce nuclear energy to send to energy-poor England theguardian.com/business/2023/….

A good reason for Scotland to have more of them, alas the SNP refuse.

@meljomur Lovely wee example of logic fail 🙄

@IndyBint I didn’t write the article. So I’m guessing you support MSPs having a subsidised bar at the Scottish Parliament.

“Restaurants and bars in the Scottish Parliament are being massively subsidised by the taxpayer with the figures, published by the Scottish Parliament, showing a subsidy of £680,147 for the nine months to December 2020, which is 17 times more financial support than the average Scottish pub received during the pandemic.” dramscotland.co.uk/2021/03/29/680….

@KennyFarq Just leaving this here for future reference …yesterday England’s elected government legislated to circumvented its citizens own human rights in order to facilitate people trafficking . And Scotland’s government legislated to expand and enshrine the legal rights of its children.

Just leaving this here for future reference. What are the textbook characteristics of populist nationalist othering? # Reinforcing the concept of Us and Them. # We are good and true. # They are morally deficient. # They are weak in ways we are strong. # Eliding nation with party. # The party is the guardian of "national values". # "Our values" and "their values" must be defined in opposition to each other in a manner reductive and misleading. # Commonality of interests between us and them must be denied. # They are a lost cause. # We are better off without them.

@KennyFarq Starmer’s idiot cheerleaders really jumping the shark now….according to KFarq here, Democracy does not exist to reflect your political views ….it exists only to allow one group of tories to periodically replace another group of tories 🙄

The Labour election campaign is not there to make you happy. It is there to make Labour win. This isn't hard to understand.

@Sunday_Mail What legal reasons 🤔 There are no ongoing police investigations ….and no live proceedings…..it all sounds completely bogus !

Partner of SNP politician in affair claim called police over 'threats from relatives': dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-… dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-…

I have been called a liar when i posted the information below by unionists. No wonder they are not pro indy when they can't research and are disbelieving of Scotland's true inovation and potential. I have posted many links now. Waiting on appologies.

I love this reasoning: "We have to win over Tories in order to get Labour in to power. To do so we have to adopt Tory polices otherwise we'll never remove the, er, Tories" This line of thinking is more common than you think 🇬🇧😳 twitter.com/SpaJw/status/1…

@staylorish Even more Bonkers . Sam here casting his wee Tory boy Starmer as a cheerleader of fascist vandalism is quite the look 🤣Putin’s mafia-style leadership also introduced ‘entrepreneurial’ ‘meaningful change’……can’t wait to see Starmer’s next wee puff piece on ‘strong leaders’ 🙄

Bonkers. Who could possibly disagree that Thatcher encouraged “meaningful change” and “entrepreneurialism”? You don’t have to believe those were good things to notice that they did happen.

@RoddyQC @hmcafonso Takes a special kind of fool to think increasing turnover whilst massively reducing profit is in some way worth defending …..in reality , it’s the fastest way to go out of business 🙄

@hmcafonso “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt”. You might want to heed this adage.

Not sure what’s more depressing: the inability to distinguish turnover (which has increased) from profit; or the fact that some so called *real* Scots actually seem to want Scottish businesses to fail. 🤦🏻‍♂️

@blairmcdougall So, remember that Nicola Sturgeon wasn’t actually part of any Covid WhatsApp Groups …. 🙄

just for the record, I don’t think Alistair Darling made any difference to the indyref result. He wasn’t impressive. The real impact of the debates was that Alex Salmond was absolutely shite and simply ludicrously unprepared on currency and blew it

You got to love the Scotsman, the day after this polling their front page is 'Do you hate cold mornings' Laura Waddell, 'Maybe Finland has the answer' and 'Are more people saying no to the mince pie?' All crucial Qs I know ...

@RealStephenKerr Irony just died.. The idiot Kerr’s Tory party has just been found to have wasted £100BILLION …..and all he can do is bump his gums on Twitter about the mis-use of a few sheets of A4 🙄

Clearly the values of Westminster aren't Stephen Flynn's values. Any excuse to waste taxpayer money!