If leaving the UK is great, why do those wanting it lie about it constantly and often block discussion. Reposts not an endorsement.
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It’s been a while since the last survey was carried out, but fieldwork 9th-14th Oct 26 suggests that independence is still not in many people’s top 3. Such a shame the SNP at their conference seem to want to talk about something that people don’t want the SG to bother about.
As the 2026 Holyrood campaigns start officially, leaving the U.K. has slipped even further down the list. Only 9% think it’s important, despite what @JohnSwinney and @theSNP will try to tell you. That’s fewer than 1 in 10 people think it’s a priority.
Have to admit I hadn’t realised that alongside 5% VAT, kerosene has a 4% import tariff slapped on it. It’s taken long enough for this lot to think of doing something about it.
🏴🇬🇧Iain_L 🇬🇧🏴 retweeted
Flying to a conflict zone for a PR stunt and crying to the press about a “frightening” 8-hour border interrogation is peak performative politics. You are a devolved Green MSP, not a UN diplomat. If you don't want to be detained, stay in Holyrood and do your actual job.
Also, the cheek of you flying there when 2% of the electorate voted for the Green party in 2026.
Woo hoo, orange flavoured chocolate dipped gherkins for tea tomorrow. @UKLabour and @andyburnham are just clueless.
🏴🇬🇧Iain_L 🇬🇧🏴 retweeted
Jon Kay to Reynolds: "You're planning to remove import taxes from products like chocolate, gherkins, marmalade. Your own figures say that will save the average household 40p a week. At a time when [bills] are going up, do you really think people are going to notice 40p a week?"
🏴🇬🇧Iain_L 🇬🇧🏴 retweeted
This is not a diplomatic crisis; it is the inevitable result of politicians playing pretend foreign ministers. These “British elected representatives” flew thousands of miles to stage a photo-op in a conflict zone, completely outside their official remit.
Demanding the UK Government step in and “condemns this in the strongest possible terms” because two minor politicians got exactly what they were looking for, a brief detention at a border to generate Twitter clout, is absolute arrogance.
They are not sovereign diplomats on official UK Government business. If you fly to a war zone for a PR stunt, do not cry when you get turned away.
🏴🇬🇧Iain_L 🇬🇧🏴 retweeted
The pre-pandemic rate was £8.21/hour; £13.20/hour represents a more than 60% increase in five years.
People keep saying businesses who can't pay it shouldn't employ people.
So they're not.
EXCLUSIVE
John Healey will announce plans to increase the minimum wage by nearly 4 per cent but slow the rise for young people after warnings that they are being priced out of jobs
The Times has been told that the national living wage, which applies to those aged 21 and over, is expected to rise from £12.71 to around £13.20 — an increase of 3.9 per cent
However, Healey has decided not to repeat the big rises of the past two budgets in the national minimum wage, which applies to those aged 18 to 21
It will rise broadly in line with the rate for older workers - from £10.85 to around £11.27, an increase of 3.9 per cent
It effectively spells the end of Labour’s manifesto pledge to bring the “discriminatory” minimum wage for young people into line with the living wage for older workers in this parliament
The minimum wage increased by 26 per cent between 2025 and 2026, leading to stark warnings from employers that it risked impeding efforts to get 1 million “Neets” - young people not in education, employment or training - into work.
Healey alluded to the approach in an interview with The Times last week, in which he spoke of the importance of the “trade-off between the level of the minimum wage and the employment rate”
thetimes.com/article/c9142a2…
Is a former Education Secretary, who should be well aware of the issue of violence in schools, really advertising a ‘free’ school bag containing a pair of scissors?
If we can fund aid to Pakistan we can fund assistance for our own citizens. Milliband is so out of touch
🏴🇬🇧Iain_L 🇬🇧🏴 retweeted
This was the @andyburnham I supported for Leader way back in 2015 when I was still a member of Labour. Just wish he had stuck to the principles he had when he made this speech. Opening the free movement issue again is just madness and I think he will live to regret it.
🏴🇬🇧Iain_L 🇬🇧🏴 retweeted
"Free movement had allowed, in my view, the undercutting of wages. Some people debate this, but I saw evidence of it. Where people were brought in by agencies from other European countries and it was used to bring wages down"
Andy Burnham in 2019
Response in The Nat Onal letters page to the recent ideas from Richard Murphy and also Tim Rideout’s SCG.
Can anyone see John Swinney doing such a deal with the U.K. Govt; it would probably be the end of his leadership. thetimes.co.uk/article/4ffaf…
Can’t see Ivan McKee taking on the unions and his colleagues and doing what’s sorely needed. thetimes.co.uk/article/7a248…
What was it he said when campaigning to be elected? Something about not picking at the Brexit scab? The man’s nothing but a self serving liar. thetimes.co.uk/article/7d4d9…
🏴🇬🇧Iain_L 🇬🇧🏴 retweeted
John Healey right to be cautious on raising minimum wage for the young…. UK now has one of the highest minimum wages in the world, as Tom Calver pointed out:-
thetimes.com/article/8b28c4c…
EXCLUSIVE
John Healey will announce plans to increase the minimum wage by nearly 4 per cent but slow the rise for young people after warnings that they are being priced out of jobs
The Times has been told that the national living wage, which applies to those aged 21 and over, is expected to rise from £12.71 to around £13.20 — an increase of 3.9 per cent
However, Healey has decided not to repeat the big rises of the past two budgets in the national minimum wage, which applies to those aged 18 to 21
It will rise broadly in line with the rate for older workers - from £10.85 to around £11.27, an increase of 3.9 per cent
It effectively spells the end of Labour’s manifesto pledge to bring the “discriminatory” minimum wage for young people into line with the living wage for older workers in this parliament
The minimum wage increased by 26 per cent between 2025 and 2026, leading to stark warnings from employers that it risked impeding efforts to get 1 million “Neets” - young people not in education, employment or training - into work.
Healey alluded to the approach in an interview with The Times last week, in which he spoke of the importance of the “trade-off between the level of the minimum wage and the employment rate”
thetimes.com/article/c9142a2…
