August 10, 2024
Murdo Fraser MSP announced he would join the growing list of candidates bidding to replace Douglas Ross as leader of the Scottish Conservatives.
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August 3, 2024
When three children were murdered by a 17-year-old in Southport, the English Defence League, reacting to false information, rioted, targetting a mosque. The following day, GB News, attempting to further whip up the far right, created an online poll: 'Are the Left elite to blame for the violence in Southport as they continue to smear and ignore angry communities? VOTE NOW.'
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July 27, 2024
In their first three weeks in power, Labour voted to keep the two-child cap, ditched their plans to cut energy bills by £300, and rowed back on abolishing the House of Lords, their lame justifications for each sounding more and more as if generated by artificial intelligence.
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July 20, 2024
A report from the UK-wide covid inquiry found that the UK Government and all the devolved nations were inadequately prepared for the pandemic. This fuelled headlines in the Scottish press such as "Scotland not properly prepared for pandemic" and "Scottish Government accused of ‘corporate homicide’". It also said that Nicola Sturgeon's administration had adopted flawed UK government resilience plans.
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July 13, 2024
In 2022, the Labour conference passed a resolution calling for the introduction of proportional representation at Westminster elections. But by 2024, with the likelihood of election victory, they dropped the policy. Anas Sarwar said: "We fought the election campaign and we won the election campaign. We don't make the rules, we played the election by the rules." Sarwar also had to hide all the England flags lining Downing Street on a tweet claiming that Scotland is "at the heart of a Labour government".
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June 29, 2024
The Scottish Liberal Democrats appeared to have been caught out copying and pasting English policy. A campaign flyer claimed "the SNP have let water companies get away with dumping sewage into or (sic) rivers, lochs and sea for too long. The Lib Dems will fight to protect our environment and punish rule breaking water companies." Scottish Water is publicly owned. Elsewhere they claimed "sewage was dumped into Scottish rivers for 183,832 hours last year", a meaningless statistic given there are only 8760 hours in a year.
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June 22, 2024
Question Time host Fiona Bruce was slated for trying to shut down John Swinney after saying that Brexit is the reason the UK economy has tanked. Bruce interrupted the First Minister around 20 times during his half-hour interview. Elsewhere it seemed that her opinions mattered more to her than any of the party leaders.
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June 15, 2024
Keir Starmer launched Labour's election manifesto in typically vacuous fashion. The document contained 33 pictures of the leader and was clearly targeted at former Tory voters.
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June 8, 2024
In a surprise move, Douglas Ross announced he would be standing as an MP in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East, describing the move as "leading from the front". Most surprised of all was the current holder of the seat, David Duguid, who appeared to be unaware of his deselection, saying the decision was not his and that claims he was “unable to stand” due to ill health were “simply incorrect”.
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