Councillor Lorraine Cameron

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Brian test...!!! 99% lose 1% win

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@couldasaid @Tysemon101 @theSNP Right. Jack McConnell was in charge until 2007

@Tysemon101 2002 you say. But I thought it was all. The fault of @theSNP?

As an ex Glasgow Firey I’m not going to comment on the fire last night. I wasn’t there and don’t know any of the details. All I will say is that it is another travisty. Another iconic Glasgow building gone. I retired in 2014. I took an option that meant due to my age I could retire after 25 years service. Now, you may ask why I would do that, considering I was only five years off my full lump sum and pension? Well, in those 25 years the job that I loved changed dramatically and not for the better. The turning point was the 2002 dispute, a career low, led by radical union reps that destroyed the structure of the British Fire Service as it existed. We went from a service led, performance rewarding professional organisation to an HR dominated, chronyistic, risk averse organisation almost over night. By 2014 I could not stand going into work. As a watch commander my days were dominated in box ticking exercises and petty disputes all fuelled by WOKE agenda. Worse than that, I was regularly attending shouts where over promoted senior officers with little actual firefighting experience would turn up, countermand firefighting tactics already in place only to watch a building burn to the ground. Whenever I confronted these frankly negligent decisions I was overridden and on more than one occasion reprimanded. At that time, SFRS still had 1000’s of superb firefighters, but most had been by passed for promotion by the ‘New’ firefighters, who were great on computers, female, gay, other, didn’t rock the boat and could write a blinding CV. When I joined in 1989 there were just 5 people in Personal. One senior officer and four civilians. By the time I left there was one HR staff for every 5 firefighters out of 2500! In the end, I couldn’t justify staying. Guys were dying of heart attacks on night shift, dozens off with ilness and work related stress and every other e mail was a funeral notification for a recently retired colleague. More importantly the bullshit was effecting my mental health. At the time I handed in my resignation no one else (to my knowledge) in Strathclyde had ever done it before. Suddenly I start getting visits from the head shed asking why! Why would I go now? I just laughed and told them I was going before I got sacked. I have never felt relief like I did the day I left, not even when I left Afghan with all my bits still attached! It’s the best decision I have ever made, proving that quality of life is more important than money. You cannot take it with you! I feel sorry for the guys and girls on the ground now, I know a lot of great people still serving and morale is rock bottom. In the end and I’m talking specifically about Scotland now, the SNP have ruined the Fire Service. Amalgamating all the regions into the Scottish FireandRescue Service gave them all the power. You get one person in charge and make sure they are your guy. The Union are less than useless Preferring to focus on gay- trans rights in the place of conditions and manning, I’m just glad I’m out of it all. I get that I probably come across like a bitter, un pc old dinosaur, but no one can tell me we are in a better place than we were 20 years ago, a time when courage and skill was more important than computers and skin colour. Thanks for reading and have lovely , safe day. 🙏🇬🇧

@MeccaBingo oh dear….what are you doing allowing politicians in your lobby?!?

@DownWithTheSNP She’s been hating on NS and the SNP for quite some time, so this is just a publicity stunt, is it?

Sturgeon meets ex-SNP voter.

@DorwardLindaJ @ScottishLabour Honestly, I thought by now you would’ve all cottoned on to the fact that the brothers who own McGills have given your party tens of thousands of pounds!!!! Surely they are doing that to help Labour fix the messy bus issues in Scotland….no???

Out in Langholm today talking to residents Q: After 19 yrs of the SNP how many buses go direct from Langholm to Dumfries A: NONE 😱THEY ALL GO VIA CARLISLE To get 🚌 that work for you, vote for the only party that will fix yet another SNP mess 🗳 @ScottishLabour in May🌹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@ronniecowan @AnneMcLaughlin @DSanderson_85 I lived in a street with a lot of kids of the same age. My neighbour went to non dom and I went to Catholic school. Every day, every weekend, we played together, in fact, on occasion we went to each others churches!! I so wish she was on X so that she could ratify!

@DSanderson_85 This is absolute nonsense. Malcolm went to the same school as me. I had friends from my neighbourhood who went to other schools, non denominational and catholic. Religion was never a factor when it came to pals.

🕍Reform UK's Scottish leader calls for end to religious schools... as he reveals west of Scotland candidacy. Malcolm Offord suggests his opposition to "sectarian" education stems from loss of friend as 5-yr-old, after pal was sent to a Catholic primary. thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

@Scot_Feminists @CllrJanisMcD @North_Ayrshire How much were they looking for?

International Women's Day event refused funding because it doesn't 'benefit all, or a significant group, of the residents within the specific Common Good area'. Ah, only women and they don't count @North_Ayrshire? Demonstrating the need for #IWD2026 1/ #Echobox=1772553848" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">largsandmillportnews.com/news/25902255.…

@LivvyJohn @KimThom92255769 @michaeljmarra In this article they are talking about Local Authority housing builds, and the impact the Tory Right To Buy scheme has had on councils. Perhaps you didn’t read it properly. My reply was totally appropriate in context.

@cllrcameron @KimThom92255769 @michaeljmarra You literally said Labour built 6 houses. That’s a flat out lie.

These feckless jokers. 20 years they have been in power. Housing completions in the toilet. Get out of the road and let us get on with sorting it out.

@Rabbuddie1 @ScottishLabour Yes. As part of a programme to revitalise our town centre, I was happy to do so.

@cllrcameron @ScottishLabour 3.5 million for 4 grass pitches that already there . And a few portacabins so not too bad eh . This should have been transformed into a state of art facility. But hut happy to spend it in a museum and library

news.stv.tv/west-central/s… After years of dithering, delay and wasted potential from the SNP, Scottish Labour will deliver the long awaited Glasgow Airport Rail Link.

@CraigMcK_YBFSI I’m in the SNP, I was there, along with thousands of other SNP members/voters.

The stalwart indy movement had more than 14000 marchers and 100 YesBikers march and ride down Union Street in Aberdeen in August 2019. You were not there. There were no SNP speakers there....NO SUPPORT, NOTHING. Prove me wrong

@LivvyJohn @KimThom92255769 @michaeljmarra This figure of 6 refers to the number of new houses started by Councils in the 2005/06 year. The total number of social homes built during the entire eight years of Labour-led executive was a different strategy relying on housing associations rather than direct council building.

@cllrcameron @KimThom92255769 @michaeljmarra Strange for a councillor to so openly lie.

@KimThom92255769 @BornonLoveStre1 @michaeljmarra This figure of 6 refers to the number of new houses started by Councils in the 2005/06 year. The total number of social homes built during the entire eight years of Labour-led executive was a different strategy relying on housing associations rather than direct council building.

@BornonLoveStre1 @michaeljmarra Ah thanks

@JohnBarrowman We are so proud of Craig. He’s a credit to our community and I know he was excited to meet you!!

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@PeteWishart We could take them on a magical mystery tour of Paisley before the airport stop….help the local economy at the same time 😁

I really hope does it from the Subway sandwich shop at Glasgow Central....

@Rabbuddie1 @ScottishLabour A slight under emphasis there. 4 pitches, 8 changing facilities, running track, groundwork, drainage etc. costs spiralled (outwith council control) as did costs of construction all over the country, to £3.5m

@cllrcameron @ScottishLabour Lol and look what you have done to it millions spent on a few containers.

@KimThom92255769 @michaeljmarra 6

@michaeljmarra How many did you build?

@Rabbuddie1 @ScottishLabour Well I recall certain Labour councillors saying they would lie down in front of the bulldozers before they would allow the St James park area to be used for a rail link. So maybe they had a good reason also to not want it?

@cllrcameron @ScottishLabour And why would we not want this

@Daily_Record I’m pretty sure, right at this moment in time, communities would consider £400m would be better spent on other local priorities.

Anas Sarwar would revive Glasgow airport rail link project if Labour wins Holyrood election dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/… dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…