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Watch @Douglas4Moray hold this scandal-ridden SNP Government to account at #FMQs.
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@Douglas4Moray 💬@Douglas4Moray: "Rules of this Parliament prevent me from asking crucial questions about the scandal over the SNP’s finances.
"So I cannot dwell on this here but I do want to give the First Minister an opportunity to be transparent with my opening question today." #FMQs
"So I cannot dwell on this here but I do want to give the First Minister an opportunity to be transparent with my opening question today." #FMQs
💬@Douglas4Moray: "Last night, the First Minister became the SNP’s treasurer." #FMQs
🏴 Watch @NicolaSturgeon answer MSPs' questions at her final #FMQs as First Minister of Scotland.
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@NicolaSturgeon 📣 @NicolaSturgeon: "Can I begin by wishing Ramadan Mubarak to our Muslim community. I'm in a very privileged position of having, of any constituency in the country, the highest proportion of Muslims living within my Glasgow Southside constituency." #FMQs
@NicolaSturgeon 📣 @NicolaSturgeon: "The SNP remains the only mass membership party in this country.
More members than any other party represented in this chamber - more than all other parties in this chamber combined."
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More members than any other party represented in this chamber - more than all other parties in this chamber combined."
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#FMQs
Watch @Douglas4Moray hold this failing SNP Government to account at #FMQs.
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@Douglas4Moray 💬@Douglas4Moray: "The First Minister’s party said this when asked by journalists last month if they had lost 30,000 members:" #FMQs
💬@Douglas4Moray: "'As the SNP clearly stated when asked, fewer than 300 members have left the party over the period.'
"'This story is both malicious and wholly inaccurate. Fortunately, few people are gullible enough to believe it.'" #FMQs
"'This story is both malicious and wholly inaccurate. Fortunately, few people are gullible enough to believe it.'" #FMQs
🏴 Watch First Minister @NicolaSturgeon answer MSPs' questions at #FMQs.
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@NicolaSturgeon 📣 @NicolaSturgeon: "Pre-pandemic, the poverty-related attainment gap was closing - and the negative impact of the pandemic can't be ignored.
What we see in the statistics published this week is that recovery is now underway and we're starting to see improvements again." #FMQs
What we see in the statistics published this week is that recovery is now underway and we're starting to see improvements again." #FMQs
@NicolaSturgeon 📣 @NicolaSturgeon: "The percentage of pupils achieving their expected levels in 2021-22, which is what the latest statistics cover, is higher than in previous year for all primary school ages." #FMQs
@NicolaSturgeon 📣 @NicolaSturgeon: "Notwithstanding the challenges that our NHS is facing, A&E units in Scotland are the best performing anywhere in the UK.
And delayed discharges, while far too high, are lower than in England and Wales." #FMQs
And delayed discharges, while far too high, are lower than in England and Wales." #FMQs
@NicolaSturgeon 📣 @NicolaSturgeon: "In Scotland, there are more GPs per 100,000 population than in the rest of the UK.
If Douglas Ross is saying that our NHS challenges are all because of the SNP, he has to recognise our relative performance compared to other parts of the UK." #FMQs
If Douglas Ross is saying that our NHS challenges are all because of the SNP, he has to recognise our relative performance compared to other parts of the UK." #FMQs
A tale of two rapporteurs. Contrast @scotgov response to @UN Special Rapporteur on Poverty, Philip Alston, who criticised UK welfare policy, & Reem Alsalem, SP on Violence Against Women & Girls @UNSRVAW who raised concerns about @scotgov policy this week. bbc.com/news/uk-scotla…
Prof Alston was welcomed to Scotland, in 2018, had well publicised meeting with FM + Government debate in @ScotParl devoted to his criticism of UK welfare cuts. His findings were rightly respected & quoted by SNP & anti poverty charities for years snp.org/its-time-to-bu…
So different when Ms Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls @UNSRVAW raised concerns this week about ScotGov’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill. She was treated like she didn’t count or didn’t understand. Her letter outlined here holyrood.com/news/view,un-o…
First Minister @NicolaSturgeon: "While I do welcome the award of this contract, I'm duty-bound to note that the original proposal, back in 2010, was not for five new vessels - it was actually for 13 new vessels." #FMQs
NS: "It was said then that all of that work would be undertaken on the Clyde. So yes, let's welcome it, but let's not rewrite history in the process." #FMQs
NS: "If Douglas Ross wants to have a debate about the benefits or, as he would see it, otherwise, of independence, then I would welcome that. Let's have that debate, and then let the people of Scotland decide the outcome in a referendum." #FMQs
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@NicolaSturgeon FM: "Performance in our A&Es is not good enough, I have been candid about that.
Our NHS is dealing with backlogs created by Covid and we're continuing to support our NHS to recover - but while there are big challenges, our A&Es remain the best performing in the UK." #FMQs
Our NHS is dealing with backlogs created by Covid and we're continuing to support our NHS to recover - but while there are big challenges, our A&Es remain the best performing in the UK." #FMQs
@NicolaSturgeon FM: "Staff numbers are at a record high across the NHS, and investment is also at a record high.
While I am not complacent, we do believe that the measures in the Recovery Plan update and the Winter Plan will make a positive difference." #FMQs
While I am not complacent, we do believe that the measures in the Recovery Plan update and the Winter Plan will make a positive difference." #FMQs
A thread on the discussion of body autonomy at #fmqs In the Scottish Parliament today and while there is progress it isn't all good news. Firstly I wanna thank @MonicaLennon7 & @GillianMacMSP for their fantastic questions subject highlighting buffer zones as well as staff safety.
While it is great that Nicola Sturgeon has committed to chairing an emergency summit on abortion healthcare looking at issues both here & in America she still refuses to fully commit to buffer zones and insteads passes the buck on to Scottish Councils to deal with themselves.
Monica continues and asks if she agrees that people who are facing harassment or intimidation in accessing abortion related healthcare if they come with any complaints to the police they will they be properly investigated?
📺 Watch First Minister @NicolaSturgeon answer MSPs' questions at #FMQs.
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@NicolaSturgeon FM: "All of us, not just in Scotland but across the world, face challenging decisions about how we heat our homes and how we travel around the country, so that we can meet our climate change obligations and make the transition to net zero." #FMQs
@NicolaSturgeon FM: "This is about empowering local councils to consult on these decisions, to consider options and to arrive at decisions - that's where we're doing and what the Conservatives used to support, but now clearly don't." #FMQs
Anas Sarwar turns up at #FMQs and once again, talks about a windfall tax - something that the Scottish Parliament doesn't have the powers to introduce.
Literally yesterday, SNP MPs led a debate at Westminster calling for a windfall tax and more powers for Holyrood.
A thread 👇
Literally yesterday, SNP MPs led a debate at Westminster calling for a windfall tax and more powers for Holyrood.
A thread 👇
The SNP's proposals for a windfall tax go a lot further than Labour's.
Labour specifically focuses on oil and gas companies - which the SNP's proposals include - but Labour suggests that massive corporations like Amazon or Serco should not be taxed.
Labour specifically focuses on oil and gas companies - which the SNP's proposals include - but Labour suggests that massive corporations like Amazon or Serco should not be taxed.
Bottom line is this: at the present moment, there's only two ways a windfall tax can be introduced.
1) The UK Tory government introduces a windfall tax (highly unlikely, given their close links to these huge corporations)
2) Westminster devolves the relevant powers to Holyrood.
1) The UK Tory government introduces a windfall tax (highly unlikely, given their close links to these huge corporations)
2) Westminster devolves the relevant powers to Holyrood.
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At #FMQs, Nicola Sturgeon said England's infection rate in new ONS stats is 20% higher than Scotland. This may come as a surprise, as ONS estimated infection rate at 1 in 20 for both nations yesterday.But FM has staff preparing soundbite stats. Here's where it comes from:
At #FMQs, Nicola Sturgeon said England's infection rate in new ONS stats is 20% higher than Scotland. This may come as a surprise, as ONS estimated infection rate at 1 in 20 for both nations yesterday.But FM has staff preparing soundbite stats. Here's where it comes from:
This may be boring for some. But I think it's worth flagging a statistical sleight-of-hand regularly used by Scot Gov (not *just* Scot Gov - but that's what I'm exposed to most)
First, here's yesterday's ONS headline figures. "Around 1 in 20" people infected in both Scot & Eng
First, here's yesterday's ONS headline figures. "Around 1 in 20" people infected in both Scot & Eng
At #FMQs, Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross argued that Nicola Sturgeon was too "gung ho" with Omicron restrictions compared to England. The First Minister referred to to the prepared soundbite stat as part of her response... as follows:
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@NicolaSturgeon 📣 @NicolaSturgeon to Douglas Ross:
"We introduced a series of balanced protective measures over the festive period. Coupled with the extraordinary response of the public and the booster programme, we're thankfully now in a better position - but we can't be complacent." #FMQs
"We introduced a series of balanced protective measures over the festive period. Coupled with the extraordinary response of the public and the booster programme, we're thankfully now in a better position - but we can't be complacent." #FMQs
@NicolaSturgeon FM: "Douglas Ross is showing rather more political desperation than we even thought he might have been.
'At the moment, this cautious approach is the one we should be taking - that's my sentiment' - those are not even my words, but the words of Sandesh Gulhane on 7 Jan." #FMQs
'At the moment, this cautious approach is the one we should be taking - that's my sentiment' - those are not even my words, but the words of Sandesh Gulhane on 7 Jan." #FMQs
Nicola Sturgeon: "I have big political differences with Douglas Ross but even I am not as derogatory about him as his Tory colleagues." #FMQs
Sturgeon: "'Not a big figure, 'lightweight', these might be insults directed at the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, but actually they say something much deeper about the Westminster establishment's utter contempt for Scotland." #FMQs
Nicola Sturgeon: "If they can't even show basic respect for their colleagues, what chance do the rest of us have?" #FMQS
📺 Watch @NicolaSturgeon's statement on the latest COVID situation in Scotland, before answering questions from MSPs at #FMQs.
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@NicolaSturgeon FM: "5,951 cases were reported yesterday - 45.4% of cases now show the S-Gene dropout, indicative of Omicron.
It therefore seems likely that by tomorrow, Omicron will be the dominant strain circulating in Scotland."
It therefore seems likely that by tomorrow, Omicron will be the dominant strain circulating in Scotland."
@NicolaSturgeon FM: "Because of Omicron's much higher transmissibility, this will drive an even more rapid increase in cases.
Omicron is spreading exceptionally fast, much faster than anything experienced in this pandemic."
Omicron is spreading exceptionally fast, much faster than anything experienced in this pandemic."
First Minister @NicolaSturgeon at #FMQs: "I believe supporting a Just Transition away from fossil fuels to renewable and low-carbon energy is a policy all of us should support."
NS: "What is absolutely essential is that we support those who currently work in the oil and gas sector, and that we don't substitute domestic production with imported production." #FMQs
NS: "For the sake of the planet, for the sake of future generations, we must accelerate that transition. That is what this government is investing to do, and the Finance Secretary will set out our next investments in the transition to Net Zero in the Budget this afternoon." #FMQs
First Minister @NicolaSturgeon at #FMQs: "We will continue to ensure that our justice system does protect people from criminals, that it does ensure that vicitims get the justice they deserve. But also the principles of rehabilitation is at its heart."
FM: "On the issue of automatic early release, my government didn't introduce those measures but we did legislate to bring an end to them. It is important that we have a justice system that punishes those that have to be punished, but also promotes rehabilitation." #FMQs
FM: "Rates of crime, and I appreciate for any victim of crime this is no comfort at all, but rates of crime are at their lowest level in many years in Scotland." #FMQs
First Minister @NicolaSturgeon at #FMQs: "There is work to be done, and that is why we are making the investment, supporting the recruitment of additional paramedics, technicians, to bring these waiting times down again."
NS: "Perhaps even more importantly, because some of the pressure on the ambulance service comes from pressures elsewhere, which is why the NHS Recovery Plan, and the investment that supports it, is so important." #FMQs
NS: "The ambulance service is receiving additional money. We increased investment by more than £10m last year. Additional investment of £20m is being invested this year. And the £1bn Recovery Plan funding will include support for the ambulance service." #FMQs
First Minister @NicolaSturgeon: "I'm going to try and engage with these points in substance because I think they are important. I would ask that Douglas Ross does similar. Repeatedly, he stands up here and puts words into my mouth that I haven't said." #FMQs
NS: "That's OK for politics, but if we're genuinely as I sincerely am, trying to find consensus of matters of seriousness such as this, then I do think all of us have a duty to put the politics to one side." #FMQs
NS: "There are people working across the country delivering, I think, excellent services for people with problems with drugs misuse. People at grassroots, I see that in my own constituency." #FMQs
First Minister @NicolaSturgeon: "I answered questions for 8 hours on this yesterday. I answered every question that was put to me. Presiding Officer, I intend to rest on that to allow both the Committee, and the inquiry on the Ministerial Code, to conclude their work." #FMQs
NS: "In the meantime, I'm going to get on with the job I suspect most people watching at home right now want me to get on with, which is leading this country through and out of a pandemic..." #FMQs
NS: "..and I'll leave Ruth Davidson and the Conservatives to play the political games they seem to prioritise over everything else." #FMQs
First Minister @NicolaSturgeon at #FMQs: "One of the key points is this one. What we found ourselves dealing with in February/March of this year was not a flu pandemic."
NS: "And therefore, no amount of preparedness for a flu pandemic would've been sufficient in the face of the situation that we actually encountered." #FMQs
NS: "In fact, if I reflect back on the last ten months - and this will be something for proper scrutiny in the fullness of time - I actually think the more valid criticism of both the Scottish Government and, indeed, governments across the western world..." #FMQs
First Minister @NicolaSturgeon: "I'll give a quick update on today's statistics.
803 new cases were reported yesterday. That's 4.8% of all the tests carried out, and the total number of cases now stands at 188,345."
803 new cases were reported yesterday. That's 4.8% of all the tests carried out, and the total number of cases now stands at 188,345."
NS: "Currently there are 1,542 people in hospital. That is 76 fewer than yesterday, and that is now just 22 above the peak of last spring, which is positive."
NS: "113 people who have tested positive for Covid or been admitted to hospital with Covid within the last 28 days are currently in intensive care - that's one more than yesterday."
📺 Watch First Minister @NicolaSturgeon deliver an update on the latest Covid statistics, including vaccination numbers, in @ScotParl - before taking questions from MSPs in #FMQs.
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First Minister @NicolaSturgeon at #FMQs: "I will give a breif update to today's statistics. 1,201 new cases were reported yesterday, that is 5.6% of all of the tests carried out."
NS: "The total number of cases now stands at 176,533. There are currently 1,938 in hospital, that is a decrease of 33 from yesterday". #FMQs
First Minister @NicolaSturgeon at #FMQs: "Let me first of all say the vaccination programme is not lagging behind in Scotland. I set out yesterday that we had, very deliberately, focused first on elderly residents in care homes."
NS: "Why did we do that? Because these are the people, according to the JCVI, who are most vulnerable to becoming ill, and dying, with Covid." #FMQs
NS: "So we have now vaccinated, with the first dose, more than 90% of those elderly residents of care homes." #FMQs
