Retired council comms. Carer. Believer in solidarity & sharing between all parts of the UK. Tam Dalyell was not wrong. #Stirling #Aberdeen #Halifax
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RT @D_G_Alexander: Rejecting the rhetoric and the reality of division involves more than words. It’s about delivering change that people ca…
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The separatists In their Murrellesque pomp used 'Stronger for Scotland' for years. Don't see why 'Solidarity not Separation' couldn't be similarly effective for Labour/Scottish Labour.
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Critical Incidents declared at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Dr Gray’s in Elgin. How much more of this chaotic nonsense must we endure here in the NE? 🤬
NHS Grampian at 'breaking point' as two hospitals declare 'critical incident' scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/n…
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SNP Scotland needs to be better at not issuing official statistics which then, damn it, end up in the media.
Makes you proud.
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Swinney prizes the ability to exude determined, unblinking vagueness in his ministerial choices above pretty much everything.
Chief numbers minister refuses to put any numbers on reform that's all about numbers on the Sunday Show this morning
But don't worry, Jenny Gilruth insists council reforms will save money in the long run, honest.
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Solidarity not separation. Exactly. I want Mr Swinney to explain in his next sit-down interview why he rejects solidarity across the UK, especially in the geopolitically tense times we are living in.
Scottish Labour’s task is to make the case for solidarity not separation, deliver social justice, and bring back hope - with @MichaelJMarra leading our party.
A pleasure to address @UKLabour conference.
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As someone who works for the BBC and knows how absurdly difficult it can be to get pieces commissioned for the website - the hoops, the meetings, the endless process - it’s genuinely staggering that something like this sails through.
For starters, it isn’t news. Yet there it is on the BBC News website, complete with twaddle about how the way a woman does - or doesn’t do - her nails can apparently be linked to white supremacy.
I was blissfully unaware of the supposed politicisation of nail polish, and I’m sure most people were. But by reporting claims like this, the BBC doesn’t simply observe a debate - it helps create one. It amplifies a narrative and gives prominence to voices that seem determined to detect white supremacy in the most mundane aspects of everyday life.
There’s something deeply unhealthy about that. Imagine the BBC publishing an article suggesting some equally trivial cultural habit was evidence of a “black supremacist mindset”. You can’t really imagine it, because it would never happen. Yet the nation’s broadcaster apparently has no difficulty amplifying extraordinary claims about white supremacy.
This is the sort of thing that makes me despair about the BBC. I’ve criticised it for years for being captured by progressive ideology, identity politics and gender woo-woo. Every so often I start to wonder whether things might finally be improving.
Then an article like this appears and disabuses me of that notion pretty quickly.
If anything, the problem seems to be getting worse.
“How the bare nails trend became a class issue” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpd7…
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Quite shocked at the flippancy.
Angela Rayner tells @TimesRadio what she’d stockpile for national emergencies: ‘Mascara, concealer, a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc, some baked beans and a tin of custard - I like custard’
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Amused by comments re uninspiring backdrop for 'Cardiff Agreement' signing photo. 'Edinburgh Agreement' signed in scruffy SG room specially chosen as snub to Cameron, I reckon. thetimes.com/article/87eda4b…
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Waverley captured sounding her whistle today (Saturday 26th Sept) as she passed under Tower Bridge on the start of her cruise down the Thames to Tilbury, Southend and the River Medway.
Waverley sails on the Thames until Sunday 11th October - book your tickets online at waverleyexcursions.co.uk/boo…
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"Compassion is a key part of the SNP's schtick. Their brand of Scottish exceptionalism bears heavily on the emotional. But the nationalists' is a performative and cynical compassion."
For years, the SNP blamed Westminster for blocking drug-consumption rooms. Glasgow now has one—and deaths have risen again.
Their version of compassion is clear: free prescriptions for millionaires, excuses for ministers and funeral bills for Scotland’s poorest families.
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Women make up the majority of union members. If you stop en masse giving union bosses the political levy to play with, I think they might suddenly notice you.
If you are a female member of any of these unions who wants to stay a member for local reasons, remember you can still opt out of the political levy.
Why fund your union to diminish your voice in the Labour Party?
Save yourself the cash and defund the male junketing.
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NHS Grampian has confirmed it has declared a critical incident due to “extreme pressure” on its emergency departments at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary & Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin.
It says it’s taking “all necessary steps”, including diverting ambulances, to ensure patient safety.
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She didn't actually think through the stance she decided on as a 16 year old? You don't say.
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