gods gift

Yup

@Annemarieward @Keir_Starmer Hits the spot ! People are exhausted by politics hence the low turnout at the Scottish Parliamentary Elections, they feel they are not being listened to and can’t get their arguments heard. When-politicians do not listen to logical and sensible ideas they fail the people!

You appear not to understand the difference between 'instead' and 'as well'.

@Spoon_68 @AngelaHaggerty Vauxhall conference stuff compared to her church and those that chuck a few bob on the collection plate and keep schtum are complicit 🤫offensive words tho and the pitchforks come out and cries for jail time from the morally bankrupt cultist’s 🤮

@AngelaHaggerty I can’t understand a woman supporting and endorsing the world’s worst child rape and abuse club! You clearly don’t have a maternal bone in your body. Hey Celtic leave those kids alone!!

Wow. Rangers are really serious about second place next season.

Cocteau Twins from Grangemouth. (1991)

@snapperup @BrianSpanner1 @anthoharris Yeah she was getting her jollies out of that 1️⃣

@BrianSpanner1 @anthoharris And was so thoroughly obnoxious to many on her long-running COVID tv show.

Sturgeon booted a lot of journalists on her way up. Have fun guys.

@TomPaisley90 Cunts in a cult rarely realise there in one …

I repeat, they are not normal people.

@TomPaisley90 @joebloggscogs @MurdoMurdo65 He probably thinks you're talking shite.

@Stillnotgone1 @TomPaisley90 @joebloggscogs @MurdoMurdo65 😂😂 can see why the snp gets that demographic to vote for em cuckoo 🤪

The Savoy nightclub in Glasgow, 1975. Located in the basement of the brutalist-style Savoy Centre on Sauchiehall Street.

@Dennynews Quelle Surprise,pair o autosexuals

Nicola Sturgeon has released a further statement through her solicitor, Aamer Anwar. "In respect of any items I was aware of Peter having purchased, I had no reason to doubt that he had used his own money"

@thesundaysport Pathetic innitt,Fcn woke jocks..games gone

If I nicked £400k from a political party, I'd invest it in dirty women and drugs, not fritter it on a camper van. I thought the Scots were supposed to be canny.

@VoteBPB Quick glance at the national and I start getting nostalgic for that 🐄 thatcher

That guy is insufferable

@afneil Yeah in the country where 2+2=5 and truth is subjective it’s a landslide,and that’s after gerrymacmandering who votes(the easily manipulated demographics)incl kids not old enough to watch trainspotting,prisoners&woke foreign students 😉 here on a 5minute visa

A narrator writes: The SNP won 58 out of 129 Holyrood seats. Which, unless you’re a product of Scotland’s increasingly underperforming school system, is obviously not more ‘than everyone else put together’. It was six fewer seats than the SNP won in 2021. And the SNP’s vote share was roughly 10 percentage points below its share in 2021. So by no acceptable definition did the SNP ‘win by a landslide’.

@joe_yer99 Ach if you can get a falls road troubles tour why not a witness the winey tour in sunny govaan

Govan 😂

@gemlpaterson Pension fund mibbes 🤷

Walking down Oxford Street, Glasgow. Right next to Bridge Street subway. Can't you see the potential? Who owns these beauties?

Who's ready for the heatwave?

James Mitchell, professor of public policy at the University of Edinburgh, has described Holyrood as a “middle-class parliament for a middle-class electorate”. “The policies that have been pursued have been much more for the interests of the middle-class, but always articulated as if they are progressive, and I think the term ‘progressive’ has lost its meeting in Scottish political parlance because of that,” he said.

Yes, it is. The disappearance of the working-class voice from Scottish politics is not a footnote. It is THE headline. A young Scottish man today is three times more likely to die early than his counterpart in England, Spain, or Italy. The causes are not mysterious: drugs, suicide, cancer. The fallout of poverty, neglect, family breakdown, and political inertia. Scotland is now the only developed country where mortality among men aged 25 to 44 is rising. Life expectancy in parts of Calton sits closer to post-Soviet mining towns than to a modern Western European city. The kind of statistic you expect to find in a World Health Organisation briefing on social collapse, not in a nation that endlessly describes itself as compassionate and progressive. And nowhere is this failure more visible than in our prisons. Young men face staggering levels of despair, with suicide attempts at terrifying rates. Yet we continue spending almost as much incarcerating people for a year as it would cost to provide meaningful residential rehabilitation and recovery support. When over 70% of crimes are committed either under the influence of substances or driven by addiction itself, does it not make more moral, social and economic sense to invest seriously in recovery rather than endlessly recycling damaged people through systems of containment? We were promised that devolution would bring power closer to the people. But for those I know, in addiction, in recovery, in poverty, in communities where hope itself feels rationed, Holyrood has often felt further away than ever. Yes, we have improved representation in some important areas, sex and ethnic diversity, and that matters. But let’s be honest enough to admit the Parliament increasingly looks more like Scotland while sounding less like Scotland. The accents of managerial politics have replaced the voices of ordinary working people. The language is polished, therapeutic, procedural, endlessly consultative, yet somehow emotionally weightless. Politics has become a performance of compassion rather than the hard, costly business of practising it. As @PaulEmbery put it: “Britain isn’t experiencing social turmoil because of ‘far-right’ beliefs; it is doing so because of luxury beliefs, held by unrepresentative elites who govern our institutions. If you don’t understand that, you don’t understand anything.” And who, precisely, is carrying the burden of this failure? Not the professional classes. Not the comfortable managerial elite. The poor. The working class. The forgotten communities whose children die younger, whose streets decay faster, and whose voices are heard least. Yet policy is still too often written about them rather than with them. Consultations become curated exercises in institutional self-reassurance: polished, centralised, filtered through anaemic, on-message voices carefully selected not to disrupt the consensus. Not real representation. Not real experience. Just management. x.com/Annemarieward/…

Wise words in Inverness