SNP Member for decades

Inverclyde
Joined June 2016
This is a good summary. I'm against beating ourselves up over this or dividing the party. The failures here are global in scale but we need to be honest with ourselves & others about how serious those failures are. thenational.scot/politics/26…
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The Labour Party in the process of ensuring that anyone who cares about Palestine—let alone knows that Zionism is about denying Palestinians their rights, not just the ideal of a Jewish homeland, as this falsely claims—will not vote, even tactically, for it in the next election.
I have joined Birmingham Labour colleagues in writing to the Council Leader. Green cabinet members must publicly disown their party’s “Zionism is Racism” motion. If they refuse, the power sharing agreement must end. Standing against racism requires leadership and action. 👇🏽
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This polling does not show this at all. All it confirms is that a significant number of Israelis dislike foriegn pressure, but not that voters have changed who they would vote for.
Ed Miliband’s sanctions on West Bank settlers have made Israelis more likely to vote for Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc in next week’s elections, polling shows 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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It’s worth recalling what happened when the SNP put forward a motion about this type of thing, including the words “collective punishment”. Remember how the press lads were outraged, but also non-specific about what it was that happened and why it was bad theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
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Lula’s victory will be greeted with horror in Silicon Valley. Outside the EU, Brazil has been the biggest holders to account of US tech firms. And Facebook’s actions before the election deserve proper scrutiny
Lula victory speech: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. We cannot have monstrously huge corporations earning millions & billions, paying no taxes to this country & trying to steer this country's election results."
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This is exactly where we're at in the UK. We're not just denying a genocide. We're enabling it, accelerating it, and fiercely silencing anyone, including our children, who oppose it.
Replying to @Presa_Diretta
La chiamiamo "israelizzazione della società" perchè la democrazia che siamo diventati nelle mani di elite politiche influenzate da gruppi di pressione e interessi economico-finanziari, ricorda Israele. Diritti sacrificati in nome della sicurezza e repressione del dissenso.
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‘The contempt for the Sudanese victims of the UAE is exceptionally bewildering even in an era of outrages. Nusseibeh’s appointment can only be secured by stepping over the dead, and turning backs on the living.’
‘The appointment of Nusseibeh, who has been the face of the UAE’s Sudan strategy, would be a slap in the face to the millions of people suffering the horrors of war, and a dereliction of duty towards those thousands who have already been killed.’ theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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This is extremely poor. The opposition bloc is not centrist leaning and definitely not left leaning. It contains some very right wing candidates. In temrs of policy regarding Palestinians there is little difference at all
The BBC’s Middle East correspondent frames the Israeli elections as Netanyahu against “leftist” and “centrist” figures like Eisenkot, whom she describes as “softly spoken” and “lowkey”. What she leaves out is that he’s a former general and the architect of the Dahiyeh Doctrine, which calls for disproportionate force and deliberate targeting of civilians and their infrastructure. In what world is that left wing?
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Brazil’s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic of president Donald Trump, was re-elected on Sunday in a result that provides relief to critics of widening US influence in Latin America thenational.scot/news/266687…
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🇵🇸 Israeli forces seized Dr. Mazen al-Rantisi, a 71-year-old Ramallah family doctor known as the "Doctor of the Poor," from his home in Ramallah's al-Tira neighborhood at dawn on June 21. In August, a lawyer for the Detainees Affairs Commission relayed his account of his detention in Ofer prison: ▪️ He was denied his regular medications for his first 10 days and was still without one medication he desperately needs. 
▪️ His repeated requests to see a doctor were refused. His only exam was a pulse check through an opening in his cell door. 
▪️ He lost a large amount of weight on food he described as scant and unfit to eat. 
▪️ Detainees were forced to walk bent over with their hands shackled, made to kneel four times a day during roll calls, insulted and beaten. 
▪️ At least 10 detainees were crammed into cells with six beds, amid raids with beatings and tear gas, mold, insects and no cleaning supplies. He was still wearing the clothes he was arrested in. For more than four decades, al-Rantisi charged patients 30 shekels (about $8) or less, waived fees for those who couldn't pay and answered medical questions by phone for free, often late at night. The Palestinian Prisoners' Club, which received him in Hebron, said signs of beating were visible on his body. 📸 Before/ After photos attached.
💢Palestinian “doctor of the poor,” released after 4 months in Israeli torture prisons Israeli authorities released Dr. Mazen Al-Rantisi, 71, from Ganot prison after more than four months in detention, with visible bruises and signs of physical assault, according to photos and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society. Al-Rantisi is widely known in the occupied West Bank as the “doctor of the poor.” He was arrested during a predawn raid on his Ramallah home on June 21, and his family was never informed of any reason.  Israeli media reports suggested his detention was linked to his role as chair of the Union of Health Work Committees, a Palestinian healthcare organization Israel designated an “unlawful association” in 2020. 📸 Before and after pictures. See post in reply for details of his detention.
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Replying to @graemearcher
In 1998 and 1999, four of Britain's regions and nations voted for devolution. Since then, all have overperformed the rest of the country economically. Even Wales. . Also a bit of a rant about how London isn't the only big city in Britain. tomforth.co.uk/agglomeration…
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Breaking: Donald Trump was "an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of young women in the mid-to-late 1990s,” according to a report issued today by Dems on the House Judiciary Committee. The report includes one new rape allegation against Trump, and calls for a special investigation of the Trump administration's cover-up of Epstein's crimes.
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The most moral army in the world being totally moral again.
חברון, תהיו בני אדם, תהיו אבות ואמהות תהיו אחים. אל תחכו לשבור שתיקה. @ShovrimShtika
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The situation is dire in Taiz, Yemen. We managed to get out of the city as the Houthis encircled it. But our report from inside shows how desperate the situation is for those trapped there. With @McGarwen @CunninghamCSky @ahmedbaider1 Watch our report here: share.google/8D3EjYKQa86vVjV…
I am following with concern the grave humanitarian situation in Yemen, particularly in the city of Taiz, where the population is suffering from a lack of food, water and medical care. I make a heartfelt appeal for hostilities to cease and for the Yemeni people and all the peoples of the region to be guaranteed the right to live in peace.
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It was maliciously treated as a fishing expedition by little people who had no way of changing the outcome. Funded by the taxpayer the cover up began. Lives have been lost. Lives could have been saved by a number of people listening to the few. I hope that is never forgotten.
The compensation bill for the Post Office Scandal has now reached £1.7bn. Every UK taxpayer has paid £44. Yet in 2014, the PO started mediation that could have settled claims at a fraction. They blew it. It was treated as a box-ticking exercise and a fishing expedition.
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Where were the Police?
ALBA DEFENSOR_ Edinburgh Castle Silent Protest, The Warning! Over 200 patriots sent a loud silent message to the Government last night
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According to seat projections by Curtice, these results would see Labour lose 21 of the 37 Scottish seats it won at the 2024 general election, leaving the party with just 16 MPs in Scotland. thenational.scot/news/266698…
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Only media pick up of this revelation from last week Mainstream British journalists operate as an arm of the state. They are paid propagandists Propaganda by omission is how they brainwash
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