Councillor for Cockenzie & Port Seton, Prestonpans, Longniddry @RangersFC fan, work in public affairs, policy and campaigning
Prestonpans, Scotland
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Lachlan Bruce retweeted
In voting systems of proportional representation, you prevent the kind of decisive government that has been a mainstay of British political life for so long by forcing coalitions every time.
This means politicians make grubby deals with each other AFTER the election, rather than pledges to the voters BEFORE the election.
Not only that, but you hand even more power to the unelected bureaucrats who run so much of the state today.
This would be disastrous for the country, and only benefit the civil servants. Oh and either the nutty fringe parties, or it would make the Lib Dems perpetual kingmakers.
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💙 We’re delighted to announce Atholl Industrial Solutions as a Regional Partner of Rangers Football Club for the 2026/27 season.
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FT, Celtic 0-1 #Rangers. What a huge statement from Derek McInnes and his team. They thoroughly deserved that, all that was missing was a second goal. McInnes the first Rangers manager to win his first two Old Firms since Souness. Naderi, Sterling, Makhanya all outstanding.
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wtf is this nonsense? The government promised it would only use this for proper emergencies
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I for one am surprised that something the government justified for one purpose is now being used for another.
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No one is forced to work for an MP. If you choose to do so, you have to accept it comes with certain types of scrutiny and accountability that other jobs don’t. This is a really bad decision by MPs.
A glorious day for opponents of transparency in public life.
MPs have removed the names of their parliamentary staff from a decades-old public register - meaning we do not know who these people are and are left to accept the word of their employer when they say (as in the case of the prime minister, here) that said staff do not have any outside earnings or private interests.
"All staff have confirmed they have no registrable interests": oh, well that's that then.
No way of determining if true; no way of finding out if MPs employing family members; no way for anyone other than MPs themselves to uphold standards or examine who is operating in the Palace of Westminster on their behalf.
The decision was driven by ... you guessed it ... MPs themselves, following behind-closed-door consultations with staff trade union representatives - not media or anti-corruption organisations.
Echoes of the time that decided among themselves - with nil meaningful debate - to exempt themselves from the centuries-old system by which those arrested would be named before the Commons.
Parliament being sovereign it is always free to take such steps without consultation or engagement with the public - the hope is they decide not to abuse their positions and proactively seek criticism or counter-views.
In this instance, sadly, MPs have demonstrated they cannot be trusted to do so - they have put us out of step with comparable democracies without anything approaching scrutiny:
Lachlan Bruce retweeted
As Ed Miliband becomes Foreign Secretary - I am reminded of his biggest foreign policy legacy, thwarting British military action against Assad in 2013. These words by @MatthewdAncona two years later in 2015:
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Robert Jenrick: “Nigel Farage had the courage to put himself up for a by-election, which very few people do.”
Tim Stanley: “Well you didn’t.”
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Nigel Farage has triggered a pointless by-election which will cost taxpayers more than £250,000.
It is a pointless ego trip, and the result of it will be pretty meaningless.
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Nigel Farage has a little rant on TV - takes no questions. Does not address any of the facts in @Gabriel_Pogrund Sunday Times investigation. It's all deflection.
Resigns as an MP to trigger a by-election in Clacton but says he will stand in it again to let the people decide.
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This is a very pertinent series of points made by @FraserNelson in his most recent column. Reform are entitled to be super-pro-crypto and they may even be right about being so. Still, it's difficult to avoid joining the dots here...
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Scotland: population just under 5.5m.
Norway: just over 5.5m.
Norway have taken just 12 years to rebuild their football culture and deliver unprecedented success in international terms.
Meanwhile in Scotland we’re still waiting to hear from The Ernie Walker Review in 1995 🙄
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John Swinney, who is the third SNP First Minister in three years, claims that six Prime Ministers in 10 years makes the case for independence.
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Hiking national insurance
The Family Farm Tax
Giving up on real welfare reform
Not funding our defence
Not drilling our own oil and gas
Appointing Peter Mandelson…then lying about what had happened
Britain is not ungovernable. Keir Starmer is a terrible Prime Minister. But the problem isn’t just Starmer.
Labour MPs only want higher taxes to hand out more benefits, as the Welfare Secretary has pointed out. These are Labour’s choices and their values, regardless of who is running the party.
We need to get Britain working again. We need the @Conservatives.
