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“Sorry for upsetting the unionists”?
The only thing upsetting here is your complete inability to read your own linked articles.
You are smugly parading around an SNP graphic boasting about 87.9% of people earning the Real Living Wage, completely ignoring the fact that the very article they are citing admits this proportion has actually “fallen slightly over the past year” from 88.7%.
That's right, the situation is actively getting worse, but the SNP slaps a green checkmark on it, and you blindly cheer as if they've achieved utopia. Even better, the article warns that “the figures alone do not establish how much of the country's performance can be attributed to Scottish Government policy” because “Employment law remains reserved to Westminster”.
And to top off this spectacular self-own, bragging that Scotland is the “highest-paid outside London & the South East” is just a hilarious admission that the UK's economic establishments still pay far better.
You are boasting about declining statistics that your own government can't even take credit for.
The thing is you won't even reply to begin with, though.
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You know rUK produces far more energy than we do....don't you?
And that for days we have been importing electricity?
And that Torness decommissions in just 4 years with no plan to replace that baseload?
You really are very silly.
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Oh, not the mythical “£1 trillion wealth fund” again😂
The SNP loves to roll out this tired old grievance and claim Westminster “squandered” the energy money, but do they ever actually explain how it was spent? It wasn't set on fire; it was spent on the NHS, pensions, schools, and the welfare state.
To build a massive sovereign wealth fund like Norway, you have to run a budget surplus. So, please, SNP, tell us: to save up a trillion pounds, which Scottish hospitals would you have closed? Which pensions would you have reduced? You cannot ringfence billions into a savings account while actively demanding more day-to-day public spending while running a massive fiscal deficit.
It is absolute economic illiteracy disguised as a grievance.
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“ If you've got no actual news to talk about”
From the editor of the National!
Yes that’s right the National!!!
This is not intentional comedy.
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For 400 yrs...Scotland was able to have it's King ascend to the English throne, lead the Enlightenment, become a race of fiscal & engineering titans, spearhead the British Empire, and bring about the modern Western world along with England..
England is NOT the problem, this is:
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At exactly 11am on Remembrance Sunday while the rest of the country stood in silence the Scottish Government’s official account chose to post a cheerful greeting for a Sikh festival instead.
Not a word of remembrance from the government’s own channel at the moment of national silence.
Swinney can call the criticism “disgusting” and “categorically false” all he likes; the timing and the choice were deliberate, or they were recklessly indifferent. Either way, it was contempt.
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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.
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Oh, the absolute hypocrisy is off the charts😂
The National is furiously crying about “secret taxpayer-funded” polling and running to former SNP MP Tommy Sheppard so he can claim it’s “corruption” for the UK Government not to release FOI details.
Do you genuinely have zero self-awareness?
Just hours ago, it was revealed that the SNP's own Scottish Government blocked an FOI request regarding their own secret, taxpayer-funded NDAs over the Alex Salmond trial, using “mental health” as an excuse to hide the payouts.
But when Westminster runs a basic policy poll and doesn't immediately publish it, suddenly it’s a massive democratic crisis.
The SNP demanding transparency from anyone else while running the most secretive, cover-up-prone administration in Holyrood history is complete comedy😂
Matt retweeted
This is the most embarrassing Google deep-dive I have ever seen!
You were so desperate to prove your fake word is a real national identity that you surfed the entire internet😂 The absolute best “proof” you could find was a 2016 Arsenal fan blog, a random letter to the editor, and a New York Times book review that uses it as a literal parenthetical joke😂
Do you not realise how spectacularly you are owning yourself here? 😂
If a word is a genuine, recognised demonym for 67 million people, you don't need to dig through decade-old football blogs just to find a single person using it.
You are treating a grammatical quirk like it's a constitutional demographic.
Just accept that #UKish isn't happening and log off before you start citing random Reddit comments as legal precedent😂
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Are you claiming that because there isn't an Act of Parliament mandating the word 'British', you can just invent embarrassing fake words like “UKish” and expect people to take you seriously? 😂
There is “no law” stating you can't call a cat a “meow-sphere,” but if you do it in public, people are going to laugh at you😂😂
You got caught completely misunderstanding a Ugandan advocate's tweet about “governance architecture”, and instead of just taking the Loss, you are now demanding constitutional legislation for the English language.
Absolute weapon😂
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Has the flood of hostile letters to @ScotNational encouraged the Scottish Currency Group to reflect on the wisdom of Tim Rideout’s messaging? Nope. They have decided that I must be writing the letters pseudonymously.🤦♂️
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The letters page of @ScotNational continues to be in despair on currency. This problem is intractable because the only possible solution - a new currency which sharply devalues - is immensely painful and electorally toxic.
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How about apologising for your family's role in communism - the most evil ideology on the planet?
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It’s not irrelevant
It shows what parliament can do when a region secedes the UK
As
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Did
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🤷 That’s it
I’m up a beautiful river in a luxury yacht watching Kylie pour me a martini wearing those little gold shorts.