James Scobbie

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@koshercockney We did provide aid to Germany and Japan once we had occupied them. Deliberately blockading and starving a civilian population is definitely a clear signal.

United States Senator Tom Cotton: “Why should Israel be responsible for providing aid to Gaza? Israel is the victim. We did not provide aid to Germany and Japan in World War II." Moral clarity right there.

@LivvyJohn They have protected Scotland where they can, its not much. The Unionists wouldn't even try.

After 18 years in Government, the desperation from the SNP to make this election about anything other than their record is clear to see. Desperate, desperate stuff.

@vonderleyen @Keir_Starmer Iran is responding to an illegal attack by your allies.

Good call yesterday with @Keir_Starmer. We discussed the situation in the Middle East and the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s actions are putting global economic stability at risk. We will work with our partners to ensure freedom of navigation can resume as soon as possible. We also discussed the upcoming EU-UK Summit. A key moment to deliver on last year’s commitments and further strengthen our partnership.

@_LFI How is the invasion of Lebanon by Israel going this morning ?

LATEST: Hezbollah has fired more than 50 rockets from Lebanon at northern Israel this morning, as Israelis celebrate the first day of the Passover festival, forcing hundreds of thousands of people into shelters. One rocket struck the border city of Kiryat Shmona, injuring two people. timesofisrael.com/liveblog-april…

@SteveSayersOne The expense, inefficient, and cruel bureaucracy of claiming, errors, appeals, rejections when it's claimed to be "90% free" anyway.

🤬🤬🤬 Just fuck off with your misleading ‘free’ shit - typical SNP free shite!!! Prescriptions?? Nothing in Scotland is "free." Taxpayers foot the full bill—over £1.07 billion annually for dispensed prescriptions (soared from £598 million a decade ago). That's your "progressive" triumph: every Scottish worker and business subsidising endless low-value items like paracetamol and ibuprofen that cost pennies over the counter. England? A modest £9.90 per item (frozen again for 2026/27). But 90% of items are already exempt for the genuinely vulnerable: elderly, pregnant, low-income, cancer, diabetes sufferers, etc. Targeted protection, not blanket waste. And here's the SNP's favourite omission: even those who **do pay** in England get massive long-term cost reductions via Prescription Prepayment Certificates (PPCs). A 3-month PPC costs just £32.05 (covers unlimited items—saves money after just 4 prescriptions). The annual one is £114.50 (breaks even after 12 items, then everything is effectively free for the year—often saving hundreds of pounds). Many chronic patients pay far less overall than under Scotland's "free" system, where the NHS (i.e., you) absorbs every extra item with no personal cap or incentive for restraint. Your universal "free at the point of use" policy? Pure economic illiteracy: - It exploded prescribing volume post-2011 with zero personal cost deterrent. - Biggest winners: comfortably-off adults who could easily afford £9.90—not the poor you pretend to champion. - Result: ballooning taxpayer costs, potential waste/stockpiling, and opportunity cost that could have funded staff or cut waiting lists instead of SNP headline-grabbing. You scrapped modest charges (with strong exemptions) and branded it "ending a tax on the sick." Pathetic. It's actually a **tax on everyone else** to fund inefficiency and buy votes. Here’s the humiliating truth**: England's system protects the vulnerable while offering real, long-term savings to regular users through smart prepayment. Scotland's "free" flagship is fiscal fantasy dressed as morality—delivering no superior health outcomes, just higher bills for taxpayers and distorted behaviour. Next time you or @theSNP boast remember: the only thing free is your detachment from reality. Scotland pays dearly for your slogans. England does it smarter.

@gorbalsgoebbels They certainly never matched the "top tier" Eton output that usually runs the UK.

Can we stop this revisionist hagiography bullshit? Salmond and Sturgeon were never top tier. Salmond was an expedient shit stirrer who was helped, inexplicably into power by the Tories all to fuck Ian Gray over. And Sturgeon was a serial loser who had his patronage.

@aj_inapi The map is not the land, it's a map.

@ScobbieJames The map doesn't say so

People forget this part of history. Israel defeated Egypt in war and then gave back the entire Sinai Peninsula - an area bigger than Israel itself - in exchange for peace. Israel withdrew from Gaza completely in 2005, removing its own settlements and citizens. Parts of the West Bank were handed over to Palestinian governance under the Oslo Accords. The Golan Heights wasn’t returned because Syria never made peace and the area overlooks northern Israel strategically. So the narrative that Israel just “occupies land and never gives anything back” is simply not true. Land was returned where peace was possible. Land was held where war was still the reality. That’s not ideology. That’s strategy and survival.

@James_J_Marlow I thought it was because the IDF are the biggest killer of journalists and children.

The reason they shout “Death to the IDF” on the streets of London is because they know that before the Jewish nation had an army, they were slaughtered throughout the ages. In every generation, they rose up against us. Now we have an army, they don’t like it. Hence, they chant.

@m0nel @HerdImmunity12 @StephenFlynnSNP They were ruled unlawful by a court. That's not an SNP decision, nor a Scottish government one.

@ScobbieJames @HerdImmunity12 @StephenFlynnSNP The UK approved licences were blocked by Scottish court of session in January 2025

Grangemouth produced jet fuel for all of Scotland. The UK Government let it shut. Surely people are realising that outsourcing jobs, investment, emissions and energy security leaves us weaker, not stronger. Scotland’s resources should be controlled by Scotland.

@Ostrov_A Has there been a day Israel hasn't murdered Palestinians ? I hadn't noticed any let up in killing for religious festivals.

🚨 It’s Passover, one of the holiest periods of the Jewish year, and at 03.45am Iran is firing ballistic missiles at JERUSALEM. Where is the world outrage? Not a sound. Just DEAFENING SILENCE!

@GrahamR80837612 @WdgScotland @StephenFlynnSNP Years of not having control, as its reserved to Westminster. So any speculation is just that.

@ScobbieJames @WdgScotland @StephenFlynnSNP And you really think the SNP would allow drilling of oil if Scotland was in charge? I don't thinkso the greens have made it clear so the snp puppets do as they say

@simon4124 @haaretzcom @RobbieRinder

@haaretzcom @RobbieRinder So basically, every Muslim country can have a death penalty, but Israel can’t

Racist and unlawful: Israel's death penalty law is driven by bloodlust haaretz.com/israel-news/is…

@DrewPavlou The Economist reports, its biased in a Western, English, London-centric, right wing capitalist way but not extremely so.

It’s actually unbelievable how much the Western pundit class want the United States to lose to a blood drenched third world jihadist dictatorship.

@RachelMoiselle So how many are they currently killing ?

Here we have an Irish politician saying that Israel is killing *millions* of people. Not only is she not fact-checked on air, TonightVMTV has written her wildly false assertion here as if it is true. This is the level of bias and disinformation we’re talking about in Irish media. It is impossible to overstate it.

@AnasSarwar Your support on Grangemouth made a real difference.

Scottish businesses and workers have been sold out by the SNP. As First Minister I’ll always back Scottish workers and Scottish success.

@4mediastandards So which one did Israel accuse - you seem off script throwing mud at two of them.

In one post, she celebrates the “resistance and its capabilities” (7/10) x.com/ftounifatima/s…

As we await an apology from @AlexCrawfordSky, we decided to do some digging on these so-called “journalists.” Take a look at what we have found 👇(1/10)

@Hadi_Elis1 @AmbJohnBolton Robin Cook died over 20 years ago. The most the UK can do in arms and money is tiny compared to the USA and Israel, its power, soft and hard is much reduced. As for insulting people's education.

@ScobbieJames @AmbJohnBolton Here what you don’t know And stop replying you anymore, mostly i block people like you, responding like holding several PhD but maybe got one from Twitter /X Have a nice day

The Iranian regime is fractured, but the job isn’t finished. We must aid the Opposition and continue to pound the instruments of state power, like the IRGC military sites. Regime change is still possible. Trump’s legacy is at stake here. youtu.be/mkBOg2ZdkJA?si…

@RepJoshG @AOC Not giving Israel free weapons ? - well its just evil.

I’m confused. Defensive military aid stops rockets aimed at innocent children and families. So, why oppose it? We provide defensive military aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Kenya, etc. @AOC Should we cut all of them off? Or is that your policy just for the Jews?

@ra5kul @theSNP No, not comparable. How many are not collected or even asked for as people can't pay. And why shell out for the bureaucracy of claims, errors, appeals, if in the end its only 10% that pay ?

Around 90% of prescriptions in England, are subsidised by tax payers. Thus, free to the recipient of the prescription. Lies, is all that @theSNP have. Don't vote for John, he's a liar.