Peter Grant SNP
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@PeterGrantMP
Former SNP MP and councillor. Still an SNP activist.
If we're spending millions commemorating a woman in Scotland, I have some ideas. Here's a 🧵of high achievers worthy of statues. 1st Jennie Lee, MP & founder of @OpenUniversity . The work she did as Arts Minister was transformative. Also = Mrs Aneurin Bevan /1
Reform UK has suspended one of its Holyrood candidates after it emerged he diverted tens of thousands of pounds from a taxpayer-backed Covid loan into his personal account.
Reform leader Nigel Farage asks whether the government will drill in the North Sea for gas and oil, given the UK's critical reserve status Gas and oil will be used for "many, many years to come”, Keir Starmer says #PMQs bbc.in/4sPZaqn
"You are leaving tax revenue in the ground!" @lewis_goodall and energy secretary Ed Miliband butt heads over future plans for the North Sea oil fields.
Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.
Trump's full rant on Cuba: "I think Cuba, in its own way, tourism and everything else, it's a beautiful island, great weather. They're not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change, you know? They won't be asking us for money for hurricanes every week. I do believe I'll have the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form, you know. Taking Cuba. I mean, whether I free it, take it -- I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth."
