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The Scottish Nasty Party is well named.
thescottishsun.co.uk/news/17…
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Your letter has not answered my questions, John.
Why did the official Scottish Government account not acknowledge Remembrance Sunday, but did post about a Sikh Festival at precisely 11am?
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.
DAVID retweeted
The merry go round of responsibility for NHS Scotland continues 👇
No regulator, consistent passing of the buck.
Patients and staff suffer.
DAVID retweeted
EXC: Every emergency consultant at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital has warned Scotland's health watchdog that patient harm is now a “daily reality” in A&E.
Their letter, seen by @heraldscotland, has been described as "chilling."🧵
DAVID retweeted
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.
DAVID retweeted
Scotland. Swinney, Labour, Greens, only interested in 'NEW SCOTS'. Scotland needs to wake the fuck up.
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🥀 ‘We Will Remember Them’ when @scotgov failed them.
More from me in @ScotExpress
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SNP Government ignores 11am Remembrance silence to celebrate Sikh festival on social media - scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/n…
scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/n…
DAVID retweeted
☎️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
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gov.scot/publications/foi-20…
DAVID retweeted
I avoided commenting on this yesterday because it was Remembrance Sunday - something quite obviously missed by the Scottish Government.
Nearly 190,000 Scots have perished in the service of our country since 1914. But the self-styled Government of Scotland actively chose not to recognise this in any official comms yesterday- the day we all paused to remember them and those that fell with them for our peace, freedom and democracy.
Bandi Chhor Divas is a hugely important date in the Sikh calendar. But over 83,000 Sikhs died fighting for peace and freedom in uniforms of the British Commonwealth, in both World Wars. And over 200 serve in the British Armed Forces today. A fact also ignored.
The SNP Scottish Government, led by John Swinney, could have recognised both the celebration in the Sikh Calendar and our shared Remembrance of our fallen.
But they didn’t.
That they didn’t shows a callous disregard to history, to those that fell, their memory, their families and those still serving. And let’s face it- the SNP chose not to because those fallen were wearing the Union flag on their shoulder.
It says everything you need to know about these charlatans masquerading as statesmen. They don’t speak for me. They don’t speak for a majority of Scots.
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So let’s take a closer look at the SNP folks over the years …
The SNP has turned voter rejection into a temporary inconvenience.
John Swinney led the party through disastrous results in 2001 and 2003, then stepped down as leader in 2004. He never left the scene. Voters kept re-electing him as an MSP while the party quietly restored him to the top jobs Finance Secretary, Deputy First Minister, and eventually First Minister in 2024. He is still there.
The same pattern played out after the 2024 wipeout. Alison Thewliss was voted out as an MP. Two years later she was elected as an MSP and immediately made Minister for Community Care. Kirsten Oswald was also rejected at Westminster in 2024. She then won a Holyrood seat and was handed the role of Minister for Victims and Community Safety. Alyn Smith, Alan Brown, David Linden, Patricia Gibson and others followed the same route: lose at Westminster, get selected again, win at Holyrood.
This is not a coincidence. After nearly two decades in power the SNP treats electoral setbacks as brief interruptions rather than verdicts. The public can vote people out at one level, but the party machine selects them again, different elections deliver different results, and government jobs are handed out regardless. The signal from voters is filtered, delayed, and often ignored.
When politicians who have just been rejected are quickly put back into office and promoted, it raises a basic question about accountability. How many times can the same faces be recycled before people stop treating these outcomes as normal?
Absolutely appalling…
DAVID retweeted
"SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT" is DELIBERATELY HUMILIATING US - BECAUSE IT CAN!
We don't want to raise anyone's blood pressure, but on this Remembrance Sunday, we do want to make people aware of the "remembrance" message that the "Scottish Government" chose to post at - note the time - PRECISELY 11am today, during the 2 minute silence, on its X page!
Folks, we're being deliberately humiliated and we should be conscious of that fact, and we should _remember_ what they are doing.
DAVID retweeted
The FM posts on ‘X’ .
The SNP political party posts on ‘X’ but the Scottish Govt ‘X’ feed does not post acknowledging Remembrance Day ?
What’s the message there then
@PermSecScot ?
Doesn’t look good.
The public by all accounts on checking ‘X’ tonight would like to know.
Noticed the @WelshGovernment posted.
DAVID retweeted
They were members of the British Armed Forces
They died fighting for the United Kingdom
You may want Scottish independence, but please don’t bring up our war dead to your argument
🙏
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I’ve no problem with the Scottish government wishing Sikhs a happy “Bandi Chhor Divas”. But why do this on the same day it fails to mention Remembrance Sunday? This was an insult to the 220K+ Scots who died in WW1 and WW2 alone. Never mind the 83K+ Sikhs who fell alongside them.
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Just when you thought you couldn’t hate @ScotGovFM and @theSNP enough, they do this 👇🏽🤬
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Audit Scotland is investigating John Swinney's business-class travel, an £11,000 away-day and a contract awarded without competition.
👍💥
thetimes.com/article/c1f6857…
DAVID retweeted
@DaveDooganSNP - you showed as much respect at the Cenotaph this morning as Celtic supporters did at the one minutes silence at Parkhead., You probably have a lot in common with them.