Former MP, now NP (‘normal’ person apparently - in joke), Indy supporter, cat lover, big fan of living, grateful for everything in this life.
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Anne McLaughlin NP retweeted
This is unbelievably patronising but don't worry, the centrist London commentators will be along soon to tell us it's expert level comms that really connects with the people 👌
Cod we take a moment of your time to set out how public spending works in Scotland? 🐟🍟
From the fiscal framework to the Barnett Formula - Minister for Scotland @melanie_ward explains!
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And we all said, as Labour were relentlessly attacking Fergusons and the SNP Government, if ever a day comes when they have to let go of some workers, Labour will suddenly, as if by magic, portray themselves as shipyard saviours.
Hypocrisy levels off the scale from @UKLabour today.
They have spent years, in fact ever since the Scots gov saved Fergusons, running down the yard. Mocking the vessels and undermining the yards future.
We see you.
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Anne McLaughlin NP retweeted
These monsters don’t just walk among us.
They present national radio shows.
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Only someone who sees Scotland as being junior to England could say this! Also John Swinney does not pay himself more than the UK PM so please correct that. He voluntarily returns £54k of his salary every year which is 10X as much as the UK PM returns. UK PM earns £40k MORE.
Scotland 'legally' does not have a government, it has a Devolved Assembly. Swinney may pay himself more than the UK Prime Minister which is of itself ridiculous but his standing is in UK terms that of a Junior Minister, and unfortunately for Scotland, a not very good one!
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Anne McLaughlin NP retweeted
Man whose entire political agenda is built on widening devolution and giving power to areas that didn't have it suddenly isn't interested in constitutional change when Scotland is brought up. Curious !
BREAKING: New Prime Minister Andy Burnham effectively ruled out granting Scotland a referendum on independence in his first phone call with First Minister John Swinney
Burnham said he is not focused on 'constitutional changes'
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Omg Nigel Farage just said he came out of being an MEP with ‘very little money’. He was on over £100,000 a year. That’s not NO money and if he thinks it IS then it is completely out of touch with the ordinary people he claims to identify with. Do not fall for it.
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Anne McLaughlin NP retweeted
Signed up for a bowel cancer screening programme so got my kit 2 weeks ago
Did the sample and sent it back, within 3 days I got a letter back saying there were indications of blood in my sample
Was booked in for a colonoscopy 5 days later
Went today for it and they found a
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Anne McLaughlin NP retweeted
Yes I remember this well - it was Scottish Labour’s Jackie Baillie MSP who extended the ‘Right to buy’ and I led SNP opposition at the time arguing it would reduce availability of housing - blast from the past photo on link but!
Andy Burnham has blamed the 'right to buy' for the shortage of social housing in Scotland.
In 2001 the then Scottish Housing Minister extended the 'right to buy' scheme. The minister? Jackie Baillie.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland…
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Anne McLaughlin NP retweeted
It's interesting how many folk think a bank holiday to celebrate Scotland getting into the WC is a waste of time but said nothing about the bank holiday to celebrate the coronation of King Charles which was held on the Monday after it.
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Anne McLaughlin NP retweeted
I can honestly say I’ve not spent a nanosecond of my life thinking about the sexual preferences of lesbians.
Nurse!
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Agree. Do they understand the audience they attract because they are usually known for actual journalism? Perhaps they are looking for new viewers with different interests.
This is so very much not @Channel4News style. It’s very disappointing.
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Anne McLaughlin NP retweeted
Excluding Greens, the SNP hold a seat majority Neil.
Including Greens, it's the biggest majority for indy ever, bigger than Salmond's 2011 fluke win.
Ruth Davidson knew the score.
Obviously, you don't like the result...
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‘it’s share of the vote that matters in a referendum’ - he does know last Thursday was an election and not a referendum right? Also clearly not read the Greens’ manifesto which is fine I suppose but don’t opine on something you’ve not read esp as a journalist.
Ok. Let’s do that. SNP + Greens took 49% of the vote and 72 MSPs between them in 2021.
On Thursday their combined share of vote was 41% but they ended up with one more MSP between them — 73.
So combined share of vote down 8 percentage points. Hardly momentum for independence. And it’s share of the vote that matters in a referendum.
Nor does one more MSP for independence change anything. There was a majority of MSPs for independence before Thursday. Much good did it do them. So what’s new?
Nor does anyone seriously think combining Green and SNP MSPs a serious basis for claiming independence. Even Nicola Sturgeon acknowledged it wasn’t.
Even more so now — the Green manifesto for Thursday did not include independence. So it’s no mandate for independence.
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Anne McLaughlin NP retweeted
Pleasure to speak this afternoon with the leadership of Plaid Cymru & Sinn Fein - @RhunapIorwerth, @MoNeillSF and @MaryLouMcdonald.
The direction of travel and demand for independence is clear, and Westminster should grasp the significance of this moment.
ALT Front page of The National newspaper with the headline: 'A Future Beyond The Constraints of The union'
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📸 First Minister @JohnSwinney and your SNP MSPs - we’ll always be on Scotland’s side.
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