Holyrood spent 2 hours debating this yesterday which they have zero control over. They did not debate the drugs crisis, education crisis, NHS crisis or looming financial crisis. What actually is the point of Holyrood? #SNPout #ResignSwinney #AbolishHolyrood #ScrapHolyrood

Oh dear. John Swinney confirms that pensioners in an independent Scotland would have their state pension paid in a brand new Scottish currency, which everyone knows would devalue against sterling. Great question from @ClaireBaker_lab.

Literally no conscience about anything this nasty narcissistic has done.

🔴 NEW: Scotland’s political class treats devolution as sacred. But after years of failing services, swollen bureaucracy and blame-shifting, Kemi Badenoch has said the unsayable: What’s the point of Holyrood? My column👇 
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If attendees at the “English Greens conference” are relying on The National to stay “informed about Scotland”, they are receiving a masterclass in state-sponsored deflection rather than actual journalism. When a devastating Joseph Rowntree Foundation report reveals that 21% of Scottish children live in poverty and the Scottish Government will miss its legally binding targets by miles, a real newspaper holds the 17-year incumbent administration accountable. The National, instead, dutifully prints the SNP's press release deflecting the blame onto the UK Prime Minister on the exact same morning. Furthermore, your “newsroom” has completely ignored the explosive FOI release proving the First Minister deliberately misled parliament over the Scottish Fiscal Commission's tax analysis. You aren't informing people; you are actively insulating a failing administration from democratic scrutiny to protect a constitutional grievance.

“We’ve seen in recent years the block grant being reduced, because of negative consequentials.” Another blatant attempt to deceive from John Swinney. What he’s referencing here is the end of extraordinary Covid spending. It’s disgraceful to misrepresent the facts in this way.

Kemi Badenoch is right to ask the question Holyrood’s establishment hates: has devolution actually delivered better government? After nearly 20 years of SNP rule, the answer is clearly NO.

Majority of firms say Scottish Government doesn’t understand business share.google/xC0dlte5Fns1ZT1…

Scaring people about their pensions is a serious accusation. If the case is solid, show the workings. If it isn’t, stop lying @JohnSwinney.

The problem John Swinney causes for himself by doubling down on the pension lie is that he can no longer claim it was an inadvertent error. And knowingly misleading parliament automatically requires his resignation.

Well this is pretty amazing. Hope it goes to #1 in the UK.

Mislead Parliament. Frighten pensioners. Refuse to correct the record. John Swinney told Scots they were “going to lose our pensions”. Challenged, he doubled down. The office of First Minister carries a duty to tell the truth. It does not give its holder a licence to say whatever serves the SNP. Swinney is demeaning his office and treating Scotland’s Parliament with contempt. He should withdraw his ridiculous claim and apologise. If Parliament tolerates this, what does ministerial accountability actually mean? @heraldscotland

3/ The FOI response which uncovered this has not been published by Scot Gov, despite me receiving it in January. Which is convenient. I have not said anything about this before, but today seems like a good day to show just how dishonest John Swinney really is.

2/ … because the Chief Executive of the Scottish Fiscal Commission did not *press* for a correction. This is the integrity of the man. John Swinney knew he had misled parliament, but because he was able to get away with it, did nothing to correct the Official Report.

1/ Last year, John Swinney misled parliament on the notorious “more than half of taxpayers…” claim. I met with the Chief Executive of the Scottish Fiscal Commission, who agreed with me that parliament had been misled. John Swinney declined to correct the Official Report…

John Swinney fabricated a claim that the independent Scottish Fiscal Commission backed his tax policy, was informed, the SFC Chief Executive called it inaccurate, and refused to correct the record simply because he could get away with it. Then his government buried the FOI release for nine months. The myth of “Honest John” is officially over.

Calling this “The Great Scottish Pensions Robbery” is a stunning display of revisionism and fiscal illiteracy. Let’s start with the most blatant lie in your accompanying article: the claim that Scottish pensioners enjoy free personal care “under an SNP-run Scottish Government.” Free personal care was introduced in 2002 by the Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition via the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act, a full five years before the SNP even entered power. You are shamelessly stealing credit for another administration's legislation to manufacture a grievance. Second, the claim that Scottish pensioners will “pay for it” completely ignores the principles of devolution. If Westminster funds a National Care Service in England, the Barnett Formula automatically triggers a massive, proportional cash injection directly into Holyrood's block grant. Scotland doesn't pay for English care; Holyrood gets a multi-billion-pound payout because of it. Parading around a debunked, compounding £4bn spreadsheet projection for 2050 to deliberately terrify older voters isn't standing up for Scotland; it is cynical, state-sponsored disinformation.

On Thurs at Holyrood, John Swinney made this false statement amid the triple-lock row: "We're now going to lose our pensions" Asked today if he'd misled parliament, he tells @craigpaton27: "I've got nothing to explain to parliament about this issue" Here's his ministerial code:

I never thought in my life I would see British authorities working against their own people, putting whole towns under dispersal orders to smuggle in hundreds of unknown men under the cover of darkness. I never thought I would see our greatest Ally lose so much faith in us, it feels it has to remove its assets for our air bases. The stark reality is American B52s aren't safe in the UK and neither are we or our families because our Government is working against us and our enemies are here amongst us. Somethings got to give, Labour have got to go. #Gosport #Fairford

Doubling down with word salad to try & obfuscate his lies. A vile individual