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NHS Scotland waiting lists keep reducing as experts accuse NHS England of fiddling returns by up to 17% of their total talkingupscotlandtwo.com/202…
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Were you taught this at school?
James Erskine (Lord Grange) imprisoned his wife on St Kilda because she threatened to expose her husband and his associates involvement in the rise against the annexation of Scotland (Jacobite Rebellion)
She was kept there for 13 yrs.
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Someone help @UKLabour. They've tried nothing and they're all out of ideas.
ALT BUDGET TL;DR Screenshot of a pretend tweet exchange between Labour and Green Party accounts. Labour: Wealth taxes RED CROSS Warm homes RED CROSS Climate resilience RED CROSS Rent controls RED CROSS Boost bank and gambling share prices GREEN TICK someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is crumbling Green Party: @UKLabour tax extreme wealth and profits Labour: No Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales, c/o PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL
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The Budget is in - but Chancellor John Healy didn’t mention whisky. The small print shows duties will rise again - @littlegrumpyG of the @ScotchWhiskySWA says the constant duty hikes are costing jobs and growth, and successive Chancellors are failing to listen to industry
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“First British female Chancellor of the Exchequer in 800 years” say Healey about Reeves.
“Britain” didn’t exist 800 years ago.
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As we suspected, Reporting Scotland had zero in depth analysis of the budget and its impact on Scotland. The programme instead had a vox-pop. The betrayal of Acorn was glossed over as was gas standing charge being applied to unit cost and the real terms cut to our block grant.
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Nuclear power plant in England is years behind schedule and double original estimate. The original £20bn cost is now £47bn. Scottish taxpayers helping to pay for it.
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BBC Scotland is so anti-SNP that even a demand from the SNP Govt for a review of the decision to scrap the BBC Scotland channel is stone last on the station's website.
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Also WHY is a English budget measure the headline for BBC - SCOTLAND - news page?? Westminster CANNOT order how Barnett Consequentials are spent in Scotland @BBCNews
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Chancellor removes gas standing charges, as we argued when I was Chair if the Commons Energy Committee.
But he has left electricity standing charges.
Not a budget mindful of people in islands and rural areas, who have no gas option!
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Who's the biggest gainer from today's budget.
NHS?
Workers?
Disabled?
Pensioners?
NO, another 10 BILLION to this grifter. 👇
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He has no intention of entering serious talks to end the conflict.
This is a stand he takes in the knowledge that the Russians will not give up the Donbass or Crimea, and that he has Europe dancing on the end of a string.
The result is London, Brussels and Bonn et al. -- from motives of Western imperialist illusions -- supplying him with an unending supply of money to continue what is now an exercise in enrichment for himself and his clique, and the needless slaughter of his own people.
The only option available left to him is to embroil Europe and the US into direct conflict with Russia in a world war. Trump, to his credit, understands this and wants no part of it.
Europe, on the other hand, is currently cursed by leaders for whom war with Russia has taken on the mantle of a crazed crusade.
Zelensky not Putin is the real enemy of the Ukrainian people. He is the agent of Azov at home and NATO in Brussels. The result is his country being turned from a corrupt state into a failed one.
These are the grim fruits of Maidan in 2014.
President Trump and I are on the same side when we speak about ending Russia’s war, but we see different instruments for achieving that goal. My philosophy is that Putin is a deeply Soviet person, both in his reality and mentality. We know it because my generation was born in the Soviet Union. When Putin is lying, we feel it. We were neighbors with the Russians for so many years. That's why I think we understand the Russians more clearly than the United States.
The United States, considering global security, can discuss with the Russians different topics. But we understand the mentality of both Putin and the Russian people, their soldiers and civilians. When they are ready to do something, and when they fear Putin because they know they can be imprisoned. If they don’t go and kill Ukrainians, Putin will sanction them in his own way.
Therefore, President Trump supported us on some topics, while on others we have different views.
From an interview with The Sun. (1/3)
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Anyone else sick to their back teeth of this poisonous anti Scottish outfit @BBCRadioScot @BBCScotlandNews
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"Unionist historian" from these islands unionist think tank.
They forgot to mention that in the headline.
Here’s a look at today’s front page of The Herald.
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According to the western media Russia is losing the Ukrainian war,to date they have allegedly lost over 1 million troops,their economy is in tatters, yet in 996 days they will have crossed Europe defeating all before them and will be marching up Sauchiehall St.
Can someone make that make sense?
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Ooooo... £45 a year.... £3.75 a month. 🙄
Chancellor John Healey will remove standing charges from household gas bills for tens of millions of people, with the government estimating that 60% of households will save an average of £45 per year.
Economics editor Faisal Islam is in Downing Street for #BBCBreakfast
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