Fantastic effort, congratulations! Great to see @BannockburnHigh down in London doing so well! Safe home!
RT @MissDavisBBHS: We won the Barker Award for the girls’ incredible presentation!! They are so deserving of this award 💖 their efforts from start to finish have been exceptional and I am so so proud of them 🎉💃🏼 @S4TP_BigIdeas @BannockburnHigh @AlynSmith
A great pleasure to meet the United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪 Ambassador @MansoorAbulhoul talking human rights, energy, climate change, education co-operation and more.
RT @thom_brooks: The first page of the so-called 'British Bill of Rights' is the first such Bill I've seen aimed at stripping rights away from British citizens -- to increase power of an incompetent executive. via @JoshuaRozenberg https://rozenberg.substack.com/p/bill-of-rights
RT @ScotNational: 'We are too strategically important to be bystanders' // @AlynSmith
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/20226239.scotland-can-play-part-nato-madrid-summit/
There in spirit, remembering my time as an intern way back when! 🏴🇪🇺
RT @ScotlandEuropa: We’re delighted to be kicking off our #ScotlandEuropa30 reception this evening.
We’ve got an exhibition set up in our conference centre to take our guests through the last thirty years of networking Scotland in Europe 🏴🇪🇺
This is on top of the scrapping of the triple lock. Exceeding poor.
https://alynsmith.scot/2022/06/14/stirling-mp-slams-500-annual-loss-to-pensions/
📈 New @TheIFS research shows the impact of raising the state pension age from 65 to 66 - a huge leap in poverty.
🏴 With independence, our pensioners will be treated with dignity and fairness - not the raw deal they’re getting in the UK.
https://alynsmith.scot/2022/06/21/poverty-rates-climb-with-tory-pension-age-increase/
This week will see severe disruption across Scotland's railways and pressure on other public transport. Be sure to plan ahead for any journey and check online for service updates.
@bigvoz74 @MissDavisBBHS @fashionwastew @BannockburnHigh @S4TP_BigIdeas Hello there! Wednesday is in the diary and I’m looking forward to seeing them. Hope the travel works out ok, I was thinking just this morning London is so far away to get to! 🚂 🚌 🚂 🚌
A busy train crossing the Tweed on a beautiful day with Northumbria looking spectacular earlier as I headed South for another week at Westminster 🏴 🚂 🏴
An important policy paper from Stewart and the team, a credible defence policy is vital to signpost what sort of independent actor Scotland will be.
RT @StewartMcDonald: 📣 Today I'm publishing a paper from the @SNPDefence team outlining some recommendations for the NATO strategic concept. Focused on state, society and system, we make recommendations to enhance European security. Read our report here: http://www.stewartmcdonald.scot/n…
RT @thom_sampson: England's politicians may not want to talk about it, but - as predicted - Brexit is hurting the economy. Trade disruption, higher prices, lower investment, slower growth.
@ChrisGiles_ & @GeorgeWParker review the evidence
https://www.ft.com/content/7a209a34-7d95-47aa-91b0-bf02d4214764
RT @carolecadwalla: One day, I believe people in Britain will want to know what actually happened in 2016.
That day is not yet here. But it will eventually come. And when it does, this 117-page forensic examination of the facts will form part of the historic record.
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Banks-v-Cadwalladr-130622-Judgment.pdf
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Utterly infuriating. Remember, the networks with only a couple exceptions fought EU roaming tooth and nail.
On the plus side: getting EU roaming back, another advantage of independence in Europe ✅ 🏴 🇪🇺 https://inews.co.uk/news/consumer/tesco-mobile-quietly-scraps-free-eu-roaming-from-2023-as-networks-cash-in-post-brexit-1694213
RT @SNPDefence: ‘NATO and the European Union are the twin pillars that buttress the Euro-Atlantic security order and I believe that an independent Scotland’s interests will be best served as a full and active member of each organisation.’ - @StewartMcDonald.
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RT @SNP_GlobalScots: 🏴🌍🇪🇺 Our June newsletter is out now! See what SNP Foreign Affairs spokesperson @AlynSmith and SNP Defence spokesperson @StewartMcDonald have been up to by clicking on the link below
https://alynsmith.scot/2022/06/16/global-scotland-defence-foreign-affairs-newsletter-edition-13/
This is very welcome news, a great opportunity for supply chains to develop greater resilience and avoid the channel bottleneck 🏴 🇪🇺 🇧🇪 https://news.stv.tv/east-central/sole-ferry-link-between-scotland-and-continental-europe-set-to-resume-in-2023
Good. Candidate status commences serious support and talks with a clear eventual end point - EU Membership. Now over to the member states to see if they’ll all back the start of talks. 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
RT @BloombergUK: BREAKING: The European Commission recommends Ukraine be granted candidate status, a significant step on the long path to become a member of the EU, sources say https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?vid=&uuid=7c362605-ee32-11ec-a19…
Good chat last night with @openDemocracy’s @PeterKGeoghegan. A good round the houses on a niche but important issue: “Are dark-money think tanks bad for British democracy?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptan_TrCRlQ
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