Roddy Forsyth

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Roddy Forsyth

Roddy Forsyth

@RoddyFor

Nice guy

Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@EllieCumbo Blair needs to answer a question: you enacted major constitutional reforms in 1997, such as the HRA, which consciously sought to limit government policy options so were you right then or are you right now in suggesting that government needs to tear up the rule book?
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Ellie Cumbo
Ellie Cumbo@EllieCumbo·
It's not a vindication or a take-down of any individual- the message is much bigger and more important than that. It's uncomfortable reading for everyone- which to me looks rather like a sign he might be right.
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Ellie Cumbo
Ellie Cumbo@EllieCumbo·
Unfair. The essay is not about Burnham/Streeting/Starmer- it's a criticism of both those who would trigger a leadership contest because power isn't making them feel good, & those who arrived in govt without "a worked-out, coherent plan for the country in a fast-changing world."
Lucy Fisher@LOS_Fisher

NEW: Tony Blair has issued a veiled attack on Andy Burnham, branding it a “delusion” that British voters want Labour to shift left Blair hit out at the faction in the nascent Labour leadership battle spinning a “rehash of the far-left critique about nothing good coming out of the last ‘40 years’ of ‘neo-liberalism’, which presumably includes the last Labour govt” Comes as part of a 5,600-word essay by Blair on the challenges facing the UK, including AI revolution and fast-changing global order ft.com/content/0e97b3…

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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@InspM0r0s3 @AgentP22 Are you some sort of anti-police creep running a false flag operation? If so, GTF. If not, you’re an idiot and your sneering attacks on ordinary people trying to do a bit of good are, er, counterproductive.
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Inspector Morose
Inspector Morose@InspM0r0s3·
@AgentP22 So from reading the articles, they could hold it, but have gone ‘Bit harder now, sod it, can’t be arsed’.
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Agent P
Agent P@AgentP22·
Absolutely ridiculous. An annual children’s event has been cancelled because police now say a slow-moving taxi convoy is too difficult to manage. It beggars belief.
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@drowsyfire @LewisVickers2 @julesMcBot I’m sure individual detectives did their best but Police Scotland is under huge pressure from its paymasters in the Scottish government to look no further. We need a petition to ask the National Crime Agency, which has jurisdiction in Scotland, to investigate the scandal properly
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JulesRools.. (Extremely)
JulesRools.. (Extremely)@julesMcBot·
Every single Salmond supporter who demanded we respect and accept his verdict without question... but are now refusing to accept and respect that Nicola Sturgeon was found to have committed no wrong doing by Police Scotland, are making huge arses of themselves today 🙄
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@tomhfh Hope not Hate has become what it purports to oppose. It uses unscrupulous methods. It retails smears and distortions as fact. It targets people who are by no stretch of the imagination fascists. The only qualification needed to get on their hit list is to be disliked by the left.
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Tom Harwood
Tom Harwood@tomhfh·
I find it hard to believe the author of this ‘analysis’ read that tweet as anything other than an obvious joke. What’s concerning here is I think I know why they included it. They wanted to use the word ‘waterboard’ in the headline, and knew most people wouldn’t read the article. Duplicitous.
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Tom Harwood
Tom Harwood@tomhfh·
Well done, Hope Not Hate, you’ve really knocked it out of the park with this one.
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@LewisVickers2 @julesMcBot And God knows where else. The police may not know the half of it - and given the non-cooperative attitude of the klepto-couple, they probably never will. Bear in mind that Murrell’s earlier years at the SNP (and elsewhere) fell outwith the scope of the investigation.
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@homeinangus @AgentP22 Wow, that’s a charitable interpretation. An alternative one is that they were in it together but he was bang to rights so took the rap while she, as we now know, far from helping the police, refused to answer any questions at interview and sat in silence like a seasoned criminal.
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Judy
Judy@homeinangus·
@AgentP22 Was it greed or was it the pathetic attempts by a weak man in a loveless marriage trying to buy Sturgeons affection. He didn’t need the money, he wasn’t a klepto, he stole to fill an emotional void and win some favour from her.
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Agent P
Agent P@AgentP22·
Nearly half a million allegedly missing. £2.1 million spent investigating it. And the SNP still wonder why public trust has collapsed.
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@AgentP22 The fraudster’s wife shared a home with him and saw all kinds of luxury goods appear, from domestic appliances to top-of-the-range vehicles. The fraudster’s boss knew suspicions were being raised about money missing from the accounts. If only they had met and compared notes.
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@julesMcBot Get real. Salmond was in trouble because a group of SNP activists close to Sturgeon (hmm..) accused him of sexual harassment. Sturgeon is in trouble because her husband stole massive amounts of money - multiples of his annual income - and blew it on stuff that sat around her home
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JulesRools.. (Extremely)
JulesRools.. (Extremely)@julesMcBot·
@RoddyFor Don't you see the hypocrisy? The Salmond jury didn't convict because they applied the legal standard of "beyond reasonable doubt" e.g. not enough evidence.... Sturgeon wasn't charged because of the same reason...why accept for one situation only?
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@learig331 @andalg1 @rooftopdennis Well if you’re an out-and-proud anti-unionist who loves both Rangers and Sturgeon then you’re very much alone, aside from a few unfortunates who share your boutique opinions and your perverse space in the Venn diagram
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Andrew Dalgleish
Andrew Dalgleish@andalg1·
I'm embarrassed that I ever thought Joanna Cherry was a good person
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@rik_big Does Rik REALLY believe Scots will stop paying attention to this scandal and won’t ask awkward questions like “What did the ex-First Minister think about her husband filling their family home with expensive purchases that made no sense and were far beyond their household budget?”
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@WingsScotland @VanguardBears Occasionally you find a couple who are married, share a home and might even work in the same place but one of them is heavily involved in acquisitive crime while the other is oblivious. Some people are just a bit naive and trusting - but Nicola Sturgeon ain’t one of those people.
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Wings Over Scotland
Wings Over Scotland@WingsScotland·
Aamer Anwar has sent Scottish media a very threatening-sounding letter today warning them that if they don’t moderate any comments making defamatory allegations about Nicola Sturgeon, he’s been instructed to “consider” legal action and/or complaints to IPSO. Ooh, scary.
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@RosaZambonini Scotswomen are well known for their lack of curiosity about friends, neighbours and family members. They’re rarely suspicious of people, especially those who’ve recently come into money; particularly when it’s unexplained. And they tend to be timid and trusting with their menfolk
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Rosa Zambonini
Rosa Zambonini@RosaZambonini·
Never have I seen so many “feminists” sticking the boot into a woman. If every wife/gf was to have known/been complicit/an accessory to a mans crimes we’d have many more womens prisons. People seem oddly gleeful and keen to shout down SNP members who are the victims. Odd.
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@ionafyfe You should be locked up for that post. Not because it’s a criminal offence to spout bizarre fantasies about Sturgeon being a saint but because if you actually believe what you’re saying, then you must be suffering severe hallucinations which are best treated in a secure facility.
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Iona Fyfe
Iona Fyfe@ionafyfe·
Nicola Sturgeon passed her driving test aged 53. Her schedule and work life had stood in the way of her doing something as normal as learning to drive. Is it really THAT unimaginable that her and her husband had become so distant and estranged that they didn’t “socialise” or go on holiday? If you ask me, this is a tragic state of affairs. The party money was stolen. Not tax payer public funds. Party money. SNP members are the victim of this fraud, but at the heart of the story is a woman who was possibly living in a challenging, and potentially dysfunctional marriage, who was betrayed.
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@daninspain70 @WingsScotland @ginadavidsonlbc @theSNP Serious embezzlement took place. There are three key people who could have helped Murrell: the leader of the party that had its accounts plundered; the person who shared a domestic dwelling with the criminal; and the woman who was married to him. I reckon one of them was in on it
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@GinaDavidson
@GinaDavidson@ginadavidsonlbc·
A further statement has been issued by Nicola Sturgeon: “Today the media is reporting details of items that my former husband has now admitted buying with SNP funds. I have seen questions raised about how I could not have known about this. I want to reiterate that I had no 1/5
@GinaDavidson@ginadavidsonlbc

John Swinney today said he felt “betrayed” by Peter Murrell’s actions - but initially resisted saying sorry to all those who had donated money and says there won’t be any recompense. Some of the Q&A with reporters 👇

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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@WSJ A radical left turn? Cepeda is an ideological soulmate of the current President. He’s the status quo candidate. That’s not your only error. The polling trend shows support moving away from the left and towards the candidate of the radical right 🐅
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@admcollingwood We had broadened the discussion from Iran to the more general issue of civilian casualties. I regret those but they can never be the paramount consideration, duty to King and Country being the most obvious superior claim. I regard the Islamic regime as our enemy and want it gone.
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Collingwood 🇬🇧
Collingwood 🇬🇧@admcollingwood·
I, too, have a tear in my eye now it looks as though a peace deal might be reached. For a while, it really looked like Trump was doing great work for ordinary Iranian folk by bombing them and slaughtering their schoolgirls. But now he apparently wants to discontinue the war, when there are so many more Iranians he could kill and maim to help them, and so many more ways he could strengthen Iran's strategic position yet further. It's also *so* un-Jesus-like to stop killing people. A sad, sad time for all those who care about peace and Iran.
Brianna Wu@BriannaWu

What is saddest to me about this is Trump betraying the Iranian people. Trump told them if they rose up, we’d have their backs. They did, 40,000 were slaughtered by their own government. Now, Trump folded and they’ll be sent to the torture dungeons and hanging gallows.

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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@IainMcFadden @ginadavidsonlbc You switch unselfconsciously from responding to events at Parkhead by criticising the wrongdoers to responding to events today by criticising someone who tried to stop the wrongdoers. No harm in you back your football team blindly but backing your party blindly damages Scotland.
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Iain McFadden
Iain McFadden@IainMcFadden·
@ginadavidsonlbc And on this weeks episode of the Joanna Cherry show…..Joanna talks about Joanna….again. Instead of sitting on your hands you should have got off your arse and done something about it. Easy to say I told you so after the event.
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@Lairdysnr @ER07070707 You’re not guilty of any criminal offence but your moral failings are on full display. “Time to move on” is a shocking thing to say. If I was part of any movement this had happened to, I’d not rest until it was cleansed of the corrupt coterie that dragged my cause into disrepute.
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Roddy Forsyth
Roddy Forsyth@RoddyFor·
@RobertJenrick Robert, it’s sad to see you playing the same foolish game as the most blinkered and short-termist partisans on both sides of the Tory-Reform divide. There are better ways of proving your credentials to both the Reform leadership and the broader patriotic movement: go after 🟥&🟩.
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@EllieCumbo @InspM0r0s3 @AgentP22 @drowsyfire @LewisVickers2 @julesMcBot @tomhfh @homeinangus