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SNP’s farcical hate crime bill is an insult to nation’s intelligence
I have posted several threads about this over the years
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/104597468966703962
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/104597468966703962
This is just extracting the urine now 😏
Police Scotland has listed a sex shop in Glasgow, a mushroom farm in North Berwick and a demolished office block in West Dunbartonshire as "third party reporting centres" for Scotland's new hate crime laws.
SNP release statement after MP Lisa Cameron defects to Tories
SNP spokesperson said: “The people of East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow will be appalled they are now represented a Conservative and Unionist MP.
Lisa Cameron should now do the right thing and step down to allow a by-election"
There were also rumours circulating in the SNP group that Cameron may have been offered a seat in the House of Lords for defecting.
why labours by-election win is a disaster for SNP & tories
New voter ID requirements will have a "major impact" on a key Westminster by-election in Scotland, a campaign group has warned.
While they apply to Westminster votes and English local elections, the rules will not be used in Holyrood ballots or Scottish local elections.
fuck you westMonster
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-66796574
Anyone in Scotland earning more than £27,850 pays more income tax than if they lived south of the border. Those earning a £50,000 salary pay almost £1,500 per year extra.
SNP table plans to hike council tax by up to 22.5 per cent
SNP ministers must rein in spending rather than hitting Scots with more tax rises to plug a £1 billion financial black hole in their budget
Susan Aitken, interviewed last week in The Herald, claims that Glasgow City Council is not asleep on the issue of unused, empty, eyesore real estate in the city centre. No indeed, it's an issue and it's an issue the local authority plans to tackle. Brilliant. How?
Groundhog day for the SNP
When is a radical plan not a radical plan? Perhaps when you've heard it on repeat for the best part of 10 years.
Former health secretary Jeanne Freeman has criticised Glasgow’s scandal-hit health board for spying on politicians and grieving families.
According to reports on Sunday, health chiefs spent £15,000 a year to monitor the social media accounts of 31 MSPs as well as the widow of a patient who died in one of their hospitals
Humza Yousaf leaves SNP faithful confused about independence strategy
Nicola Sturgeon should step down and wait till this investigation is finally over
she's just a pure distraction now
funfact when other politicians were under a scandal SNP always shout they should step down
for someone who stepped down from being first minister because she hated the the limelight she sure loves the attention surrounding her
"Nicola Sturgeon arrested re investigation into a mere £666,953
£58 BILLION of fraud and error in govt spending in 2020-2021
... but no investigation, no arrests, and no media outcry"
is the cry from diehard SNP support 🤷♂️
so the people who donated that mere 600 hundred grand which most of it just seems to have vanished don't mind that they were robbed by greedy people
released without charge doesn't mean your innocent either
Nicola Sturgeon: Timeline of the SNP's woes as former first minister arrested
We chart a timeline of events following the arrest and release without charge of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon amid a probe into the SNP's funding and finances.
The SNP's collapse explained: the end of Scottish independence
"Politics is about vision and emotion. But the parable of Scotland shows that even populists must eventually demonstrate that they can solve genuine problems. The country’s political class has been on a long holiday from reality. Scotland cannot afford another wasted decade"
Loch mess
Scotland has been on a ten-year holiday from reality
Populism can unravel quickly. But its effects are long-lasting
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/06/01/scotland-has-been-on-a-ten-year-holiday-from-reality
meanwhile
Tourists could soon be charged extra for holidaying in Scotland.
Legislation to give local authorities the power to apply a visitor levy, or "tourist tax" has been published.
The plans are part of the new deal for local government which aims to give local authorities more financial flexibility
https://www.cosla.gov.uk/news/2023/a-new-deal-for-local-government-friday-31st-march
Our tale begins in March 2016, when lottery winners Chris and Colin Weir each issued a loan of £500,000 to the SNP, which logic would suggest was intended to assist with fighting that year’s Holyrood election seven weeks later.
The Great Indyref Swindle
Humza Yousaf: confiscated motorhome belongs to SNP
The First Minister said he only discovered the party had bought the vehicle after winning the leadership contest
a luxury motorhome confiscated by police from the home of Nicola Sturgeon’s mother-in-law belongs to the Scottish National Party (SNP), but he was kept in the dark about its purchase.
(ba pass pay-mal bu using Google built in reader mows - icon found in dress bar(
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/13/humza-yousaf-confiscated-motorhome-belongs-to-snp/
First minister reveals firm resigned several months ago but that he did not find out until first NEC meeting as party leader
The new leader of the Scottish National party, Humza Yousaf, and the MSP who was his closest rival for the position, Kate Forbes, have urged members to stay the course as further accusations of secrecy and financial mismanagement engulf it
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/12/humza-yousaf-kate-forbes-scotland-snp-party-auditors
Energy has become a major issue pushing Scotland towards independence. People across Scotland can see that they are being ripped off – they pay the highest electricity bills in the world despite living in an energy-rich country.
https://www.businessforscotland.com/energy-could-be-the-issue-that-tips-scotland-into-independence/
😏 Factzzzz mater
Every Westminster Government in your lifetime has knowingly diverted tens of billions of pounds of Scottish revenues to Westminster. This has led to lower investment in Scotland, higher unemployment, lower economic growth, lower standards of living, economic migration and growing inequality and poverty. All of which would not have been the case were Scotland an independent country
Revealed: The ACCOUNTING TRICK that Hides Scotland’s Wealth (2022)
https://www.businessforscotland.com/revealed-the-accounting-trick-that-hides-scotlands-wealth/
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