#Devolved

The Incumbency FactorA thread outlining some of the SNP government’s financial and economic failures. (1/12) Remember Fracking?“Fracking is being banned in Scotland, end of story,”- Nicola SturgeonBut it later
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NEW: Edinburgh/SNP says it will fight London/Tories is they legislate to force Scotland to accept whatever food standards emerge from post #brexit trade deals. This is only start of how
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I've written to @ResEngland to ask them to start working with their counterparts in the devolved administrations on a plan for reforming the REF after the current exercise is complete.Full
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Walking round the estate on our state-sanctioned Boris-hour today, I am reminded why @UKLabour desperately need to get over their aversion to Englishness and its expression of identity. So many
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Unpopular take on Scottish Twitter, but my bag of fucks is depleted so:If we have unionist list MSPs in the Scottish Parliament, it's because people vote for them. "Gaming" the
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1/ With rumors flying that Apple is delaying the iOS 14 privacy changes, I thought I’d share some nuance on why that would be a good thing. 2/ Apps being
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#RuleofLaw This important meeting has just begun. I understand there is a very high level of registrations. The speakers - former President of UK Supreme Court Lord Neuberger, Dominic Grieve
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This is a fun one from Jacobin. (Hint: there are at least three socialists in this photo) Speaking seriously, the internal critique of socialism most often came from the left.
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I'm getting tired of media saying we don't know what happened with hotel quarantine in Vic. Of course we must wait for the findings, and it is always possible somebody
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"I'd never vote Conservative, have you seen what they have done to education in Scotland!", so starts a conversation with a lady in Moray recently. Scottish Government has its own
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Ok. I remember how terrible I felt when I knew the first Indy-ref was lost. I felt ill for days. I could not believe that so many other Scots wished
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon dominates the political landscape in Scotland. If she gets #IndyRef2 and loses, the SNP will be sunk & Sturgeon will have to resign.So why does she
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1/ An emerging narrative is that the UK wasn’t “ready” for the #coronavirus pandemic crisisIn order to address this sensibly we need to first ask what does “ready” mean in
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I am not a Welsh nationalist or someone who speaks Welsh day to day. But please please please people who live in England, remember we have our own language, culture,
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NEW from this week’s @newyorker, ⁦@cduhigg⁩: Seattle’s leaders moved fast to persuade people to stay home and follow the scientists’ advice; New York’s leaders...moved more slowly, offered more muddied messages,
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NEW: About 30 Trump supporters here in Pittsburgh, led by local GOP state Rep. candidate Danny DeVito (R-Carnegie), who lost his race, falsely claiming there are hundreds of thousands of
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