@WorkElizab It was awful and made you feel so unwell for days……..
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Paul Smith
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Paul Smith
@SmithPaul59
‘Doorknobs are all very well, but they’re not family’………..cit. Aunt Clara (Bewitched), c1964
Upper Tillyrie, Scotland Katılım Ekim 2012
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@MhairiHunter The current Labour government has demonstrated a complete lack of political judgement since the day they came into power and, sadly, it’s not getting any better…..
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This is the attitude that saw Labour wiped out in Scotland in 2015. Voters gave them another chance last year but they're doing the same thing again. They are their own worst enemy.
LBC@LBC
"The country has had enough of chaos!" Wes Streeting rules out Scottish independence, telling @Lewis_Goodall that there will be no fresh referendum even if the SNP get a majority.
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@Sunday_Mail The level of benefit fraud in Scotland is relatively low when compared against fraud levels in benefits administered by DWP. These misleading media headlines are aimed at influencing the forthcoming Scottish election.
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'Billions' lost to benefit fraud in Scotland 'should be recouped to cut taxes for poorest'
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Said it before and I’ll say it again
The U.K. is sleepwalking towards Scottish independence
Sam Coates Sky@SamCoatesSky
EXC: YouGov / Sky / Times Scottish Parliament MRP Projection: SNP win overall majority 67 SNP - 🔼3 20 REFORM - 🔼 20 7 TORY - 🔽24 15 LABOUR - 🔽 6 11 GREENS - 🔼 2 9 LIB DEMS - 🔼 5 🔥 SNP would win fifth consecutive election, first with overall majority since 2011 🔥 Reform become official opposition 🔥 Labour and Tories on lowest ever 🔥 Highest number of pro-independence MSPs ever
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@ginadavidsonlbc I would have thought the good folk of Cowdenbeath would have chased this chancer out their town.
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Caught up with Reform’s Scotland leader Malcolm Offord in Cowdenbeath. He thinks this seat is winnable (SNP got 48% of vote in ‘21 but Annabelle Ewing not running again; Ref has also pushed Labour into 3rd in recent by-elections. Says his focus is cut tax to help cost of living
@GinaDavidson@ginadavidsonlbc
Campaign messages on day #16 SNP: give renters first refusal if house/flat goes up for sale! LAB: faster cancer care! CON: stop govt wasteful spending! REF: … GRN: Green spaces for communities! LD: roads need repaired/dualled! 1/3
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@SmithPaul59 @Alison_S_Taylor @theSNP There's 900 going up in Kelty too
I think I'd be making them build any promised amenities like Dr surgery or primary schools first
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Good grief - we need more homes John - it’s a supply and demand issue. It’s not an issue of landlords refusing to sell to tenants - they often do!
Anything to distract from @theSNP failure to build more homes after they themselves calling a #HousingEmergency ‼️
Only @ScottishLabour can fix the mess in the housing market.
The Herald@heraldscotland
'So many people are stuck paying more on rent than they would on a mortgage' 👇
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@SmithPaul59 Ah interesting. I wasn't aware of that. I'm now paying £8 a month instead of £25 a month. With talk mobile.
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@ThomasR14336083 There is definitely an episode missing for whatever reason.
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Whilst I genuinely enjoyed tonight's installment but did anyone else feel like they'd missed an episode? We end with Debbie in prison on Friday & open tonight's with her on the swings. I notice this happens regularly, is this due to the 30 min episodes or just bad writing?#Corrie
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@RealEmirHan He was brilliant in this movie, but the original version is even more horrific and worth seeing….
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James McAvoy said that to appear more “animalistic” in Speak No Evil, he would do about 30 push-ups before takes, explaining it was “just to pump my shoulders out, make my neck thicker, get the veins going.” He added that being a 5ft 7 guy meant he had to project a lot.
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@rec777777 @Nigel_Farage Thank goodness Farage is never going to be in a position to keep that promise, or indeed any of the other tempting bribes he’s throwing out to encourage folk to vote for him.
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Thank you @Nigel_Farage for keeping the triple lock
Pensioners paid in all their working lives and deserve something back in their old age
The young moaning, need to work harder. Start work earlier and do more of the kind of hours we did, to improve the Nations productivity
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@Stewart92225221 @Classicbritcom I believe she was severely asthmatic and died following a serious asthma attack.
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@Classicbritcom That's so sad, died at 33. Same birth year as me, 1968. How did she pass, or is it confidential?
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Remembering the late Actress, Charlotte Coleman (3 April 1968 – 14 November 2001)
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@labour_history If only our MPs today were a bit more Mo Mowlam……….
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After the Good Friday agreement in 1998, Mo Mowlam emerged as the most popular politician in the country - but was replaced by Peter Mandelson.
On Graham Norton she urged the government to stop the “whispering campaign” against her.
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@cornwall70001 Counting how many years conts you have made is just a simple means of assessing entitlement. On average, the amount you ‘pay in’ thru’ NI conts isn’t nearly enough to cover the payments of State Pension the average person receives in their lifetime.
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Then explain why I’d get a reduced pension if I didn’t pay enough NI contributions.
Miriam Cates@miriam_cates
No one has ‘paid into’ the state pension. NI payments are spent by the government of the day, not put into a pot with your name on. Using these terms just perpetuates the myth that the state pension is a contributory scheme. It isn’t. It’s a non-means tested universal benefit paid for by current taxpayers.
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@BBCNewsnight Ironically, it was largely Tory austerity policies that created the levels of poverty that people are currently experiencing. Yet, oddly, Steve chooses to forget that…….
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“All of us who are really serious about lifting people out of poverty… we need to allow markets to work - and we don’t, time and time again.”
Former Conservative MP Steve Baker warns against Government intervention driving up energy and fuel prices.
#Newsnight
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The Academy sends a TV crew to Pickfair Manor to speak with soon-to-be 84-year-old retired Hollywood actress Mary Pickford, offering the public a rare view into the reclusive Manor.
On the eve of the Academy Awards, Pickford is awarded an honorary Oscar. Here is her reaction:
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@Scots_Woe_Hey Wow, I feel quite grateful now that my Band E Council Tax in P&K, including 25% single occupancy discount, is nowhere near that eye-watering amount.
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The news from my friendly local council has just dropped through the letterbox. £5,288.
Maybe they can fix the potholes now?
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@CatrionaStewart Both of them should have been told to get lost. Answering ‘thorny’ questions from people with nothing better to do with their time was never the underlying intention of the FOI legislation.
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Pro-independence podcaster submits thorny FOI to Scottish gov and ... is offered a sit down with civil servants to help work it out
Pro-union think tank asks for civil servant meeting to assist its FOI. Hard no.
Bespoke service for some but not others?
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@JustAVoter100 And what happened to Ms Davidson who ran away when it all got too difficult for her?
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