Steve Weatherill

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So many haters are flooding my page now. Every day more lies, More hate, More propaganda. russia is working overtime trying to Silence Ukrainians and twist reality. And honestly… It’s exhausting. Sometimes I feel mentally drained and want to give up. But then I remember: Ukraine is not the aggressor. We are defending our home and our right to exist. We can’t let them erase the truth. We can’t stay silent. Because if we don’t speak about this war - Who will?

@GerryKeogh_ Coming soon to STV, the New Peter Murrell Generation Game with Memory Conveyor Belt. Don't forget the cuddly toy! Didn't he do well.

While Peter Murrell was in the midst of his 12-year embezzlement spree systematically stealing over £400,000 from the SNP his wife, Nicola Sturgeon, was actively warning party management and the NEC not to discuss the party’s finances. She told them to stop asking questions. She warned that raising concerns could damage donations.

SNP’s Deep Rot Exposed: Peter Murrell Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement. This hits harder because the SNP governed Scotland with moral superiority, demanding more powers while their own house was allegedly rotten. Members’ hard earned cash meant for the cause, lining pockets instead. Today, former SNP Chief Executive Peter Murrell, husband of ex-First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, pleaded guilty in court to embezzling over £400,000 from the party. This isn’t one rogue operator. It’s the latest in a string of scandals for a party that positioned itself as the clean, principled alternative. Funds allegedly went into a luxury motorhome, cars, jewellery, cosmetics, and more, while hundreds of thousands raised for independence campaigning went missing. Compare that to the Tories. Yes, they had sleaze in fact they where Sleaze Central with Partygate, dodgy contracts, lobbying. But the SNP lectured from the high ground. Now we see: • A major police investigation that swept up the party’s former leader, treasurer, and CEO. • A culture of apparent unaccountability at the top while member donations vanished. Scotland deserves better than this hypocrisy. Real accountability and transparency are long overdue. The SNP’s problems run far deeper than the Tories’ at their worst. The “clean party” myth is officially dead. Don’t think for a second his Wife was not aware, she was fully aware what her husband was doing. Nicola Sturgeon is forever tainted

Tonight, the Russians struck Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities and communities. The largest number of missiles was directed at the capital – at ordinary residential buildings, at schools; they burned down a food market, one of Kyiv’s oldest markets. The Russian strike effectively destroyed the Chornobyl Museum, damaged the National Art Museum and the building housing the office of Germany’s ARD. As of now, 69 people have been reported injured in the capital. Tragically, two people were killed in this senseless Russian attack. My condolences to everyone who has lost family members and loved ones. I have already spoken with the President of France and the Prime Minister of Norway. There will be further communication with our partners today. I am grateful to everyone who is not staying silent about what Russia is doing. They are waging war solely against our people – against our memory, our history, and everything that makes up normal human life. It is important that Russia understands that they will be held accountable for all these crimes.

@Glinner @AmnestyIreland I used to support Amnesty as well and the Greens - Crazy times, Graham.

They hate women and Jews. Cant believe I ever gave @AmnestyIreland a moment of my time.

Remember Carmel Gat, who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 from her home. She was held hostage in a dark underground tunnel, where she was starved, tortured, and beaten. She was an innocent soul, yet they murdered her because she was Jewish. Never Again is now.

A Christian man from the U.S. named Aaron Hutchings traveled to Pakistan to free a family from 140 years in slavery, paying around $4000 for their freedom. The family had remained trapped in bonded labour for generations in Pakistan’s brick kiln industry after an ancestor took a loan in the 1880s. Multi-generational bondage persists in Pakistan despite having been banned in 1992. The system revolves around “peshgi” (advance payments or loans) given by kiln owners to workers, often for emergencies, weddings or illness. Wages are extremely low and owners add high interest, arbitrary fines and manipulated accounts. This makes repayment nearly impossible. Debts are treated as family obligations and passed to children and grandchildren. Children often start working as young as 4-5 to help “repay the debt.” Estimates suggest hundreds of thousands are enslaved in Pakistan’s 20,000+ brick kilns. Pakistan outlawed bonded labour in 1992, but enforcement is extremely weak due to corruption and political influence of kiln owners. Families can’t just pack up and leave without facing severe risks. The system relies on coercion beyond the debt itself. Kiln owners or their jamadars (middlemen) often use armed guards, physical violence, or threats against the worker and remaining family. Family members left behind can be held as hostages. The police frequently collude with owners and escapees may be arrested on false charges, beaten or forcibly returned to the kiln. Workers often lack documents, education, alternative skills or safe places to go. Women and young girls face heightened risks of sexual abuse or forced marriage as “repayment.” Few in Pakistan care about these families. It often takes for Europeans and Americans to come over to help buy families out from slavery. Just like the British Navy waged war against slave traders of all nationalities after 1808, capturing 1600 slave ships and freeing 150 000 slaves.

@JohnCleese Is my head too big in this? Keir's Cap. #CartoonMuseum

No, it's just that he can't allow anything which upsets Muslims because those are the only votes he's going to get

@AntSpeaks Ha ha!

The Gaza flotilla members as they’re: 🔴 Released from Israel and about to board the plane 🔴 Arriving in Istanbul 🔴 And what followed seemingly moments later... 🤡

I genuinely think some people STILL do not WANT TO understand the scale of what has happened in Iran. We are talking about a regime massacring tens of thousands of people in LESS than 48 hours, tortured people to death. A regime executing wounded protesters in hospitals, sexually assaulting nurses, separating heads from bodies, gang raping people for protesting, piling corpses on top of each other and forcing families to search through countless dead bodies hoping to find their loved ones. Families were forced to pay money just to retrieve the bodies of their murdered children. We have seen 100s and 100s of names already, yet most victims’ names will probably never even come out under Islamic Republic because many families do not even have the ability to tell the world what happened to their loved one, and some are simply trying to survive. And while all this was happening, the Islamic Republic continued arresting, torturing and executing more people. Right now, there are still people sitting in prisons listening to others being tortured in the next room, waiting in line for executions. There are still families searching for loved ones who disappeared so completely it is like they vanished off the face of the earth. One of the darkest massacres in modern history unfolded in front of the world, and the world continues to make excuses for it and the bare minimum we can do is refuse to let it be forgotten, buried, normalised or escaped from accountability. There is no “going back to normal” after seeing this. There hasn’t been a normal for 47 years At this point, if you’re Iranian and your energy is spent attacking everyone except the people responsible for this brutality, or using your platform for anything other than exposing this regime and amplifying its victims, then something is deeply broken within you. #IranMassacre‌ #KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran #جاویدشاه

@Sazari2015 @WashTimes All the Best, your time will come. Many here support you.

Thank you, Steve. As a journalist and fellow illustrator, I deeply appreciate you standing by the Iranian people’s fight for peace and freedom. Their unwavering courage is anchored by forty years of a resilient, organized opposition that has withstood constant smear campaigns. Their sacrifice isn't made of social media words—it is proven in selfless action, carried today by those enduring prisons and death rows. A powerful reminder of what true resistance looks like.

EXCLUSIVE: Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, tells The Times that Iran's clerical regime is at its weakest point in decades. She outlines the NCRI's 10-point plan for a democratic Iran and urges international support for regime change.

Ukraine’s positions are stronger now than in previous years. Since the beginning of the year, 590 square kilometers of our territory have been liberated and brought under Ukrainian control. The trend is certainly not in the occupier’s favor. We continue to increase the rate at which Russian personnel are being eliminated, and together with sanctions in all their forms, this is forcing Russia toward diplomacy.

I have been sickened all day by the news of three boys who lured two schoolgirls, raped them, and filmed it on their phones while they laughed and egged each other on. When they finally stood before a judge this week, they were handed “rehabilitation orders” and walked out without serving a single day behind bars. Not in prison, not in custody or a young offender institution. The judge said, “None of you need to go to prison”. What message does that send to rapists? The crime could hardly be graver, yet the punishment was no punishment at all. It’s the collapse of consequences and the rot runs right through the justice system. And this is only going to get worse because Labour are choosing to go soft on criminals: ❌ They have abolished short prison sentences. ❌ They have let tens of thousands of criminals out early. ❌ And now they want to raise the age of criminal responsibility, so that even MORE young offenders escape any consequence at all. My position is common sense👇 PRISON WORKS. ✅It punishes those who do wrong, it keeps dangerous people off our streets and away from our children. ✅It tells every victim that the law is on their side. A country that forgets this is a country where schoolgirls are raped and filmed for sport, and the boys who did it get to go home. Conservatives stand against it and our policies on sentencing and prison are the ones that will deliver a stronger country.

Today contractors from National Grid turned up at this farm ready to clear all of this vegetation, including the four oaks, without the required dawn bird survey. It is only because the land owner was on his toes and challenged them that they left. Plus National Grid has not explained why it is ‘not practicable’ to uphold their DCO obligation to avoid nesting season. They were not even able to explain why the oaks need to be felled for a bell mouth when they do not cause visibility issues. This is a horrific disregard for nature. (This is Bramford to Twinstead, ‘only’ 30km long. Imagine the destruction if Norwich to Tilbury at 180km goes ahead as proposed. We seek underground HVDC laid by cable ploughs for N2T)

Putin will flee to 1. North Korea 2. China 3. Iran in case of a coup ?

@OANN @amsafavi

National Council of Resistance of Iran member @amsafavi says Iranian opposition groups require moral and political support from the international community to aid their efforts in overthrowing the Iranian regime. “They will tell the world, look, you're looking for the force that is capable of overthrowing the [Iranian] regime, it is the NCRI, it is the MEK. It has the organization within Iran, it has the support of the diaspora outside Iran… I think there must be a recognition that if we want to go forward, we have to work with the internal opposition.” Watch The Matt Gaetz Show on YouTube TV Today!