Technician & Woodwork / Metalwork Tutor at Aberdeen Grammar School, sports enthusiast & participant: cycling, football & running; SNP activist ASANK CA.
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
The real stinger is house jocks like you putting most of the blame on the FM when the biggest problem she faces is Westminster manufactured incompetence
You bent your knee for your bawble and haven’t managed to get back to your feet yet
Servile cunt
John Swinney won't be able to pop into his local for a pint any more.
Brown & Blacks in Scone is run by an entrepreneur called Katie Long.
Her story sums up everything that's wrong with business rates.
Katie put around £140,000 of her own money into the business. She's done everything she can to make it work.
Her energy costs have risen from £25,000 a year to over £100,000. But the real stinger is that her business rates have gone up from under £20,000 to over £52,000.
How is anyone supposed to make a living with that?
Now think about the knock-on effect: potential job losses at a time of high unemployment, which means less tax coming in and a greater burden on the state.
The First Minister has appointed Jonathan Murphy to look at rates. So here's my offer to Jonathan: let's spend a day together visiting the businesses whose livelihoods are threatened by the current system.
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
If the UK can reconsider its relationship with the EU, it cannot keep insisting that Scotland’s relationship with the UK is settled for a 'generation', Paul Kavanagh writes ✍️
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
The SNP has repeatedly argued for broadcasting powers to be devolved.
NEW: BBC Scotland is to become online only as the broadcaster pushes ahead with sweeping cuts aimed at saving £500 million 🚨
thenational.scot/news/266106…
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
Agent pee pee’s output has fair accelerated since the Celtic Nations declared the yoonyin was on its last legs 🤣🤣🤣
At least the fucktards that follow her are getting loads of content to keep their brain cell busy
Taxpayers are being fleeced right, left and centre by the SNP with no clear checks and no accountability.
It’s an insult to taxpayers and the Auditor General must investigate.
thetimes.com/article/4e926ca…
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
A wee nugget here regarding Dounreay which may have escaped your notice, Mr Bowie: "The full decontamination of the site is expected to take *more than 300 years*."
Still "proud"?
x.com/AndrewBowie_MP/status/…
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz91…
From Chapel Cross to Dounreay, Scotland has a proud history of nuclear power. Power that Scots support.
I do not want any part of Great Britain to miss out on the global nuclear revolution that is underway.
That is why we will legislate to ensure that Scotland can host new nuclear power generation.
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
Where will we get our London propaganda now?
Scotland already receives a much lower % of @BBC spend than our population or licence fee contribution
So any remaining Scots still paying the #LicenceFee should probably reconsider how much do we really want to subsidise England
NEW: BBC Scotland is to become online only as the broadcaster pushes ahead with sweeping cuts aimed at saving £500 million 🚨
thenational.scot/news/266106…
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
Glasgow nightclub owner Donald MacLeod was on Debate Night tonight. He attacked the SNP. MacLeod has form attacking the SNP. He did it during the Covid pandemic but praised the actions of Boris Johnson.
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
England-as-UK is broke. So much for the glib ‘Better Together’ lies on the UK’s economic strength and security. Waiting as a servant at WM’s table is no longer an option, will @theSNP govt stand up and urgently deliver Scotland’s right to self determination and democracy?
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
Police Scotland clear-up rate for 'revenge porn' is TEN times that in England & Wales talkingupscotlandtwo.com/202…
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
@johnswinney get us out ASAP!! or else we will be North England.
Tories draw up plans to cut Holyrood's powers if they win next General Election thenational.scot/news/266141…
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
Oh dear, @BBCScotlandNews said it all ran out in 2019. Someone is lying to Scots, who could it be…..
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
🏠Had a great walkabout this morning and the opportunity to raise some local issues with local council housing officer, Richard.
I also checked in on some of the newest council housing, almost finished, in the constituency.
Everyone deserves a warm, safe place to call home.
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
@KemiBadenoch thinks this is a vote winner in Scotland.
Reform and Restore want to go further and abolish the Scottish Parliament completely.
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
A serial rapist in England, given bail and allowed to keep his passport, flees to Pakistan. No Labour Govt minister confronted by the BBC. Why not? This is a *massive* failing. Everyone knows if this was Scotland the BBC would despatch a team to confront John Swinney.
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
Liberation Scotland & Salvo UN Campaign Crowdfunder ticking along nicely as it bypasses £40,000 🤩 🏴
Liberation Scotland & Salvo UN Campaign Crowdfunder ticking along nicely as it approaches £30,000.
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
As attendance soars at GP walk-in clinics, Jackie Baillie rides the Scotsman off a readership cliff talkingupscotlandtwo.com/202…
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
How can the 'real stinger' be the £32,000 rate rise and not the £75,000 rise in energy costs?
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Graeme T Smith retweeted
So energy costs are by far the biggest “stinger” not rates - Westminster
NI increase - Westminster
Alcohol duty & Vat - Westminster
Brexit- Westminster
Tom is talking very very selectively to protect the union
Now you know why he’s a “Sir”
John Swinney won't be able to pop into his local for a pint any more.
Brown & Blacks in Scone is run by an entrepreneur called Katie Long.
Her story sums up everything that's wrong with business rates.
Katie put around £140,000 of her own money into the business. She's done everything she can to make it work.
Her energy costs have risen from £25,000 a year to over £100,000. But the real stinger is that her business rates have gone up from under £20,000 to over £52,000.
How is anyone supposed to make a living with that?
Now think about the knock-on effect: potential job losses at a time of high unemployment, which means less tax coming in and a greater burden on the state.
The First Minister has appointed Jonathan Murphy to look at rates. So here's my offer to Jonathan: let's spend a day together visiting the businesses whose livelihoods are threatened by the current system.
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