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Gordon Merrylees retweeted
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.
Gordon Merrylees retweeted
🚨NEWS: There has been widespread outrage after Scottish First Minister John Swinney made a post this morning celebrating Diwali but has said nothing about Remembrance Sunday
Their priority is always with migrants
Gordon Merrylees retweeted
“It's absurd. It's outrageous. It's totally unacceptable.”
Sir Tom Hunter and Lord Willie Haughey react to reports that around 800 public-sector workers in Scotland are being paid for roles that no longer exist, at a reported cost of £27 million a year.
With taxpayers already facing pressure on their finances, the pair question whether Scotland's no-compulsory-redundancy policy needs to be reviewed.
Is it time for a rethink?
Watch the full discussion on this week's Go Radio Business Show, available on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
In association with @BarclaysHampden.
Gordon Merrylees retweeted
Public question to @larabirdsnp and Kate Nevens:
You were held for around eight hours by Israeli authorities and then turned away at the Allenby Bridge while trying to enter the West Bank as part of a Progressive International delegation.
Your stated aim was solidarity with olive harvesters and events in Ramallah.
Meanwhile, back in Scotland:
Drug deaths hit 1,133 in 2025 an 11% rise, still the highest rate in Europe by a wide margin, with cocaine and nitazenes driving the toll.
This is after more than a decade of SNP government.
Homeless deaths rose 38% to 232 in 2025.
The Scottish Government declared a housing emergency, yet the numbers keep climbing.
Child poverty and food insecurity remain entrenched, with large numbers of Scottish families relying on food banks and cutting back on meals.
You are elected to represent people in Scotland and at Westminster.
Is flying out on a foreign solidarity trip, then complaining about being stopped, the best use of your time right now?
These are the people some of you trust to run Scotland?
Gordon Merrylees retweeted
Astounding Sunday Times investigation reveals new scandal in SNP’s Socialist Scotland:
800 NHS, central government, council and quango workers whose jobs no longer exist but remain on the public payroll because of the SNP’s ‘no public-sector redundancy’ policy.
Estimated cost of paying people to do nothing: £27m a year.
One NHS Highland worker has been receiving a full salary and benefits for 17 years despite not having a specific job.
The health board refused to say what the worker had been doing for almost two decades and how much they had been paid.
Likely cost to the taxpayer is expected to be far higher with several public bodies refusing to disclose salaries for hundreds of the workers awaiting redeployment.
Gordon Merrylees retweeted
For the avoidance of doubt (since some have been asking), the 800 on the Scottish public payroll without proper jobs does NOT include the 129 MSPs in Holyrood 🤣🤣🤣
Astounding Sunday Times investigation reveals new scandal in SNP’s Socialist Scotland:
800 NHS, central government, council and quango workers whose jobs no longer exist but remain on the public payroll because of the SNP’s ‘no public-sector redundancy’ policy.
Estimated cost of paying people to do nothing: £27m a year.
One NHS Highland worker has been receiving a full salary and benefits for 17 years despite not having a specific job.
The health board refused to say what the worker had been doing for almost two decades and how much they had been paid.
Likely cost to the taxpayer is expected to be far higher with several public bodies refusing to disclose salaries for hundreds of the workers awaiting redeployment.
Gordon Merrylees retweeted
This has to be the best tweet of the week by @mcgillswest .
“Sandy Easdale, who owns McGill's alongside his brother James, said Swinney "appears to have transformed into the next Idi Amin or Robert Mugabe".
"Both men, incidentally, who bankrupted their countries through catastrophic financial policies," he added”.
Communism didn’t work in Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
However the SNP have a new kind of kid-on Communism by state ownership and keeping people in Pandora boxes of the freebies.
This type of policy does not drive an economy or support people where they need support into work.
The country is already bankrupt by £5 Billion.
McGill's accuse Swinney of behaving like dictator over bus plans bbc.in/4sbVe4g
Gordon Merrylees retweeted
.@ShabanaMahmood and @ukhomeoffice this so called "refugee" should never be allowed to step foot in the UK again.
Gordon Merrylees retweeted
Why are taxpayers funding the proof reading of this idiot's book?
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Gordon Merrylees retweeted
The reality is he’ll be best remembered for giving £750K to Hamas and falling off his scooter.
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Gordon Merrylees retweeted
Wow. @Ross_Greer on @BBCRadioScot states clearly that ‘Zionism is racism’. The Jewish community in Scotland will be appalled by this. No mainstream political party in Scotland should now have anything to do with the extremist anti-Semitic @scottishgreens.
