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FWIW: The official Scottish Government Twatter account posted at exactly 11am when the country was observing the two minutes silence which is a deliberate act of petulance that is to be expected from the divisive SNP!
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Q- 2025 -
Who in the Scottish Govt gave the code red to stop posting on the official Scottish Govt Veterans ‘X’ account?
Spin after spin today from @scotgov on Remembrance Sunday debacle.
It is now an international embarrassment.
The more they spin the bigger hole they dig.
The Scottish Government Veterans ‘X’ feed account below.
Not one post since
6 th Nov 2025 or
R/T since 11 th Nov 2025.
The only people playing politics is them and if you disagree with them ?
How dare you.
Time they admitted they got it wrong!
Sorry is the hardest word to say as the song goes! 🎶
☎️Who instructed the code red yesterday @scotgov on the failure to post on 'X'
a Remembrance Sunday post? 🥀
Q -Will all the social media managers etc be joining the Scottish Govt 800 'Ghost' workers when the SNP Government remove
themselves from 'X' per their recent party conference motion?
The cost of the Scottish
Government systemic failure in implementing a no redundancy policy is currently costing
£30 million pa and counting.
Questions need asked now on the 163 persons employed in ‘Communication Staffing’.
@RussellFindlay1
@Malcolm_Offord
@michaeljmarra
@agcolehamilton
⬇️
gov.scot/publications/foi-20…
DAVID retweeted
@JohnSwinney your faux outrage over the Scottish Government X account posting "Happy Bandi Chhor Divas" at eleven am on Remembrance Sunday, while the nation observed the two-minute silence, fools no one.
This is the same SNP with form: Dave Doogan's deliberate refusal to sing the national anthem at the Cenotaph was a calculated slap in the face to the ten thousand veterans present.
We remember the white poppies with "Yes" stuck in the middle.
We remember you at the Menin Gate (Sunday, 30 July): you wore a dark lounge suit but notably did not wear a remembrance poppy on your lapel. Instead, you chose to sport an SNP (Scottish National Party) logo lapel pin. Now you are the FM you have swapped that for a Scottish flag poppy.
You's attend event and post personal clips because you's have to.
The official account's timing was no accident.
It was very sleekit, disrespectful, and entirely on brand.
Veterans and the memory of those who served in Scottish regiments deserve better than this.
We will remember them. The SNP clearly won't.
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"The SNP talks endlessly about inclusion while displaying a remarkable inability to understand what actually unites us." Well said. #SNPout #ResignSwinney
You only need to look at Swinney's hysterical bluster and weasel words to see @HarrietCross_MP has him bang to rights.
You can celebrate a Sikh festival and Remembrance Sunday on the same day. But shouting "Bandi Chhor Divas!" during the 2 minute silence is cringe and disrespectful.
An SNP government so desperate to look inclusive, instead exposed its extraordinary cultural ignorance. Thousands of Sikh soldiers fought and died alongside British servicemen in two World Wars. Their sacrifice is part of our shared national history. Remembrance Sunday belongs to them too.
As people of every colour, faith and background fell silent to remember those who died for our freedom. The SNP govt's official account wanted to make it extremely clear to everyone that it had a different message to send.
What they posted at 11am was so naff, it might as well have said "Remembrance Sunday is for everyone else. You minorities can have your own little celebrations." to match the levels of extreme crassness and condescension.
Ethnic minorities don't need the SNP's performative gestures or patronising crumbs.
This is the poisonous consequence of politicians who see people as separate groups to be managed and patronised, rather than fellow citizens united by a common country and shared traditions.
The SNP talks endlessly about inclusion while displaying a remarkable inability to understand what actually unites us.
John Swinney laid a wreath on Sunday. Good. Now he should explain how the Government he leads managed to get this so spectacularly wrong.
DAVID retweeted
Shut down the whole clown show.
This was posted on purpose at 11am on remembrance Sunday to cause as much disregard and disrespect as they could. What a vile government!! Our family members died for this country you filth have some respect
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GRAHAM GRANT: If education is judged by the calibre of those running it, then the SNP's report card could hardly be bleaker... trib.al/jELqHCx
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It’s a pathetic response and a desperate attempt by Swinney to spin his way out of the fact that a civil servant deliberately timed a tweet that wasn’t about Remembrance Sunday to go out bang on 11:00 during the two minutes silence.
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The Cult SNP are unfit to Govern Scotland,
This deliberate act to ignore our veterans is just another example of a party that has lost any credibility with the people
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It’s not too much to ask that the sacrifice of those who gave their lives for our country is recognised.
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This has serious impetus now…
You only need to look at Swinney's hysterical bluster and weasel words to see @HarrietCross_MP has him bang to rights.
You can celebrate a Sikh festival and Remembrance Sunday on the same day. But shouting "Bandi Chhor Divas!" during the 2 minute silence is cringe and disrespectful.
An SNP government so desperate to look inclusive, instead exposed its extraordinary cultural ignorance. Thousands of Sikh soldiers fought and died alongside British servicemen in two World Wars. Their sacrifice is part of our shared national history. Remembrance Sunday belongs to them too.
As people of every colour, faith and background fell silent to remember those who died for our freedom. The SNP govt's official account wanted to make it extremely clear to everyone that it had a different message to send.
What they posted at 11am was so naff, it might as well have said "Remembrance Sunday is for everyone else. You minorities can have your own little celebrations." to match the levels of extreme crassness and condescension.
Ethnic minorities don't need the SNP's performative gestures or patronising crumbs.
This is the poisonous consequence of politicians who see people as separate groups to be managed and patronised, rather than fellow citizens united by a common country and shared traditions.
The SNP talks endlessly about inclusion while displaying a remarkable inability to understand what actually unites us.
John Swinney laid a wreath on Sunday. Good. Now he should explain how the Government he leads managed to get this so spectacularly wrong.
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Wishart has blocked me so I can’t reply directly to him. But the response from the SNP should have been “this was an error and we apologise”.
Of course, they don’t do apologies so have doubled down and are now desperately trying to defend a mistake. For what it’s worth, … 1/2
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I’m not really into “poppy shaming” but as a former commanding officer of 1st Battalion Scots Guards, I find this a pretty grim omission by @scotgov as, I suspect, my former comrades will have done too.
Well done for highlighting it the excellent @HarrietCross_MP 🫡
The Scottish Government has questions to answer.
More than 207,000 fallen men and women are listed on the Scottish War Memorial's Roll of Honour.
Yesterday, the country fell silent at 11am to remember those to gave their lives for us.
Also at precisely 11am yesterday, the Scottish Government's X account published a post. Not about Remembrance Sunday, but about a Sikh festival. In fact, that account did not post to mark Remembrance Sunday at all.
Later in the day they also posted about climate change. But still, did not see it necessary to mark one of the most poignant days in our nation's calendar.
Bandi Chorr Divas is, of course, an important date for Sikhs. Indeed, it coinciding with Remembrance Sunday was the perfect opportunity for the Scottish Government to recognise the almost 200,000 Sikhs who were killed or injured fighting in the World Wars alongside allied forces.
They didn't do this. They chose to just ignore Remembrance Sunday altogether.
I have written to the Scottish Government for answers, not least in identifying who is responsible for showing such contempt and disrespect to our armed forces and veterans.
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It was all deliberately timed to appear on X as soon as the 2 minutes silence started.
It's nothing more than a feeble attempt by Swinney to ingratiate himself with his pals in Sinn Fein.
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/n…
DAVID retweeted
Remembrance Sunday is the occasion when the whole country traditionally comes together to remember those who sacrificed their lives, ironically to protect our borders, which is why politcans like you, seemingly content to let anyone invade our country, are such loathsome traitors.
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So the line is: @scotgov didn’t post a tweet about Remembrance Sunday but it retweeted a post from the First Minister’s @ScotGovFM account.
That the FM account marked the day was never in dispute. The objection was to the snub from the Scottish Government’s main X account. 1/3
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Seriously?? We have people like this amongst us. This is what years of @SNP division has brought about, and now these terrorist-supporting morons would rather support Palestine/Hamas instead of our veterans. I can only shake my head in disbelief and frustration 🤬.
DAVID retweeted
The people of Scotland have had enough of the SNP destroying Scotland
Time to Shut Holyrood down
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You only need to look at Swinney's hysterical bluster and weasel words to see @HarrietCross_MP has him bang to rights.
You can celebrate a Sikh festival and Remembrance Sunday on the same day. But shouting "Bandi Chhor Divas!" during the 2 minute silence is cringe and disrespectful.
An SNP government so desperate to look inclusive, instead exposed its extraordinary cultural ignorance. Thousands of Sikh soldiers fought and died alongside British servicemen in two World Wars. Their sacrifice is part of our shared national history. Remembrance Sunday belongs to them too.
As people of every colour, faith and background fell silent to remember those who died for our freedom. The SNP govt's official account wanted to make it extremely clear to everyone that it had a different message to send.
What they posted at 11am was so naff, it might as well have said "Remembrance Sunday is for everyone else. You minorities can have your own little celebrations." to match the levels of extreme crassness and condescension.
Ethnic minorities don't need the SNP's performative gestures or patronising crumbs.
This is the poisonous consequence of politicians who see people as separate groups to be managed and patronised, rather than fellow citizens united by a common country and shared traditions.
The SNP talks endlessly about inclusion while displaying a remarkable inability to understand what actually unites us.
John Swinney laid a wreath on Sunday. Good. Now he should explain how the Government he leads managed to get this so spectacularly wrong.
