Stephen Offord

Welcome to SNP run Scotland 2025. The land where rapists walk free but if you watch football on a dodgy TV channel, you get 5 years in jail.

@lembitopik I'm unclear how you can characterise the aggressor (Putin) as a peace seeker! The easiest and quickest way for peace is for Putin to stand down and withdraw his troops from the sovereign country he invaded. If he does that he's a peace seeker. If not he remains the cause.

There are now 2 Ukraine camps: (1) Warmongers = Starmer/Zelensky/EU (2) Peace-seekers = Trump/Putin Let’s hope peace-seekers prevail, despite shrill calls for more war by enemies of a speedy life-saving truce

@Churchill can you explain why a claim doubles an insurance policy, if already in place but if I get a requote from your website the policy is currently cheaper? I'm in the ludicrous position where I would save money by cancelling the policy and buying a new one!

@JamesArthur23 Best set of the festival! 🔥

No Scotland no party! Thank you for partying with us, I love playing in Scotland. It might be the loudest place to perform in the UK… the chant didn’t write itself! 📸 James Kellegher

@JamesArthur23 Belladrum!

I love seeing your hands up when I play Sermon live. No phones just me and you in the moment. I’ve got a couple more UK shows this week in Wigan and Swansea - who’s coming to a live show this year?

@scotgov It's not progressive, it's regressive! People over £28k paying more tax than counterparts in England and over £75k so much more moving out of Scotland must become a serious consideration. Net deficit to Scotland when we lose our most talented people and the tax revenue dries up.

MSPs have approved Scottish Income Tax rates for 2024-25. Scottish Ministers are proud to take a progressive approach to Income Tax to support investment in public services. Our plans are forecast to raise an extra £1.5 billion compared with following UK Government tax plans.

@FraserBOk @Mr_flannigan @Ross_Greer @JSpagboli There is no doubt there are extremely hard workers on lower salaries. However there are some roles only a limited number of people can do, therefore they get paid more - market driven value. This sort of policy drives those people out of Scotland to a net deficit!

@Mr_flannigan @Ross_Greer @JSpagboli The jobs I’ve worked hardest were low paid. This idea that people on higher salaries work harder is total bullshit

Vote on income tax reforms which will raise £100s millions for our public services and redistribute wealth from those on the highest incomes to the most vulnerable: Yes 62 - Green🟢, SNP🟡 No 54 - Labour🥀, Tory🔵, Lib Dem🟠 Scottish Labour tax policy set by Starmer

@Ross_Greer All this is going to do is drive people to leave Scotland. Overall net negative value for Scotland!

@RossRitchie9 @AboutScotlandd @IanCrocker1 @kierantierney1 @andrewrobertso5 @bazzabannan25 @jamesmcarthur16 😂😂😂 Crystals Bar

@AboutScotlandd @IanCrocker1 @kierantierney1 @andrewrobertso5 @bazzabannan25 @jamesmcarthur16 @sjjo81 running up the strip in Magaluf! 🤣

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿| 𝙁𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨 “𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴! 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴! 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴! 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹!” Listen to that roar! Listen to that commentary! Sit back and let’s go back to 2017 and relive the late winner v Slovakia! Where you at Hampden that night? What’s your memories from this game?

@Mr_flannigan @DavyFalla @Jacob_Rees_Mogg Rate rises should have come much sooner, but I'm unclear on the benefit of this massive increase now. This is to squeeze consumer spending, which is not the inflation driver (energy & food). I more worry about the effect of unaffordable pay increases causing an inflation spiral.

@DavyFalla @Jacob_Rees_Mogg Totally agree with his out of touch persona, but interest rates of almost zero for 12 years has been devastating, 5.5 - 6.5% was entirely normal for years beforehand.

@DavyFalla @BBCMOTD Regardless of whether you agree with his view or not his position in the BBC does give that some restriction. Correct decision by BBC - allows him to say what he wants and saves a huge amount of money.

The decision by @BBCMOTD could be a defining point in the history of the BBC. Survivability is now questionable.

@JamesMelville The explanation is very clear. He has not inherited anything - rather he is a custodian of sovereign assets, from which the revenue goes to the treasury. If inheritance tax is argued as fair, then to keep things equal we would pay 85% income tax. Divisive for the sake of it.

King Charles is uniquely exempt from paying 40% inheritance tax. It’s deemed as “inappropriate” according to the UK government.

@RossRitchie9 @FPLFledgling @SandyMaccc @DavyFalla 😂🤮

@FPLFledgling @SandyMaccc @DavyFalla @sjjo81 😂

When your Mini-League rival shows you his team and it's much stronger than yours

@WolfOfTheSykes @WebUser46517304 @atforsyth @CaesarRye @YesScot @Ianblackford_MP @NicolaSturgeon I'm not sure where you're coming from here. 85% of Scottish government funding is still covered by the Barnett Formula (traditionally allowing a 15 - 20% per head more than England). It's true we now have even more given the variance in income tax, but Barnett still predominant.

@sjjo81 @WebUser46517304 @atforsyth @CaesarRye @YesScot @Ianblackford_MP @NicolaSturgeon The Barnett formula actually does less for Scotland now that we have our own tax powers. In terms of independence this means we're already halfway there in terms of paying for what we spend. We're one of the richest countries in the world per capita, hardship is the UK's domain.

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@HeikeOleary1 @MichelleDuffy33 @YesScot @NicolaSturgeon You make my point for me. If we don't have access to EU market now because we left the EU, it's reasonable to say we won't have access rUK when we leave the UK (or vice versa). Either way an argument to leave the UK to access EU market makes no sense.

@sjjo81 @MichelleDuffy33 @YesScot @NicolaSturgeon If we still have access to EU market now, why would Scotland not have access to rUk market as an international trading partner?

@HairyAngus @loon_shire @Elemjay1 @DAJCameron @Douglas4Moray @theSNP And the SNP clearly said a vote for them wasn't for Independence, but now claim a mandate; even when less than a 1/3 of Scot's want one in 2023.

@loon_shire @Elemjay1 @DAJCameron @Douglas4Moray @theSNP She did, back in May the Tory branch manager said "make no mistake, a vote for the SNP is a vote for a second independence referendum" people voted, he also said it at the Scottish Gov elections, what part of that are you unsure about ?

According to Nicola Sturgeon, if the Supreme Court decision goes in favour of the Scottish Government, the judgment must be respected. If it goes against them, it's all Westminster's fault. Unreal.

@HeikeOleary1 @MichelleDuffy33 @YesScot @NicolaSturgeon Gaining access to the EU market, which we still have, is a terrible argument for independence if we end up losing access to the rUK market where majority of trade goes.

@MichelleDuffy33 @YesScot @NicolaSturgeon House prices won’t fall but rise. There are more pro EU, anti Tory people in England than anti EU, pro Tory people in Scotland. A simple question of supply and demand. Many SME owners who lost access to EU markets will relocate.

@WolfOfTheSykes @WebUser46517304 @atforsyth @CaesarRye @YesScot @Ianblackford_MP @NicolaSturgeon Which we can afford because we're in the UK and Barnett formula. All will have to go if at least in the medium term. Not a reason not, but people need to understand it'll be a generation of hardship worse than we've got now, for a potential long term benefit we may never see.

@WebUser46517304 @atforsyth @CaesarRye @YesScot @Ianblackford_MP @NicolaSturgeon That's what we've managed to retain as the small pieces of what we had before decades of dismantling of rights and benefits of living in the UK. Non of you get that down there because you voted for governments that took them away from you. We didn't, that's the difference.

@RossRitchie9 @AndyBrown314 @HighlandRFC Yeh, sticking out 100 balls into the community as part of the centenary.

@AndyBrown314 @HighlandRFC @sjjo81

Loved seeing this in my local park. Well done @HighlandRFC - great initiative.

@DazHodgkins Wasn't disappointed! Amazing movie. Just enough nostalgia but could stand alone.

@sjjo81 I was definitely expecting great things, and it blew me away.

What a movie. #TopGunMaverick