Pete Wishart

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Thanks to @petewishart.bsky.social for highlighting the @lsepress.bsky.social report to the home secretary, commissioned by #PCS and Refugees Together which suggests policy changes which would enable refugees to contribute to UK economy and be self-sufficient quicker.
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Budget 2025: Starmer and Reeves ditch plans to raise income tax The prime minister and chancellor have spent weeks laying the groundwork to make the manifesto-breaking announcement on 26 November, but won't go ahead with it amid fears it would further anger Labour...

We have reached the beyond chaos stage now. They've been playing a cynical and dangerous game with people's finances and they don't even know if they've u-turned on their u-turn. What an absolute mess and any credibility they might still possess shredded.
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Scots music giants call on Keir Starmer to end ticket touting Scots rockers join big guns to demand an anti-tout bill in the next King's Speech - that would wreck business for tout sites like Viagogo and StubHub

For years music fans have been ripped off by the spivs, touts and profiteers. And for years we have fought to have fans protected. The Government pledged to take action. Now is the time for that pledge to be put into place.
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YouTube video by K23 Runrig Rise and Fall

Runrig. Rise and Fall.
"There was an hour that never knew a gloaming
The whole of life, enchanted in a day
And we'll be there, forever in the places
Where we used to be".
#RemembranceDay
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@petewishart.bsky.social: "When parties like Reform UK rail against the ECHR - that tells us everything we need to know about why it is so desperately required."

"The ECHR enshrines our freedom of speech, our right to assemble, and to worship. It is everything that the populists despise."

Pete Wishart seeking legal advice after Grok claims he is 'rape enabler' Pete Wishart of the SNP said he was ‘genuinely shocked’ to have been smeared with the ‘deeply distressing’ comment.

What has happened here is totally shocking and appalling. Grok has already conceded that it has been defamatory. I am fortunate that I have the agency to take them on. Imagine what they are doing to those who have no means to seek redress.
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Grok has actually admitted that what is said is defamatory. I'll send it through privately.

Hi Jolyon. When I asked the Grok app if I was a 'rape enabler' it even said that such an allegation 'could be defamatory'. If you think this would be useful I would be more than happy for this exchange to be used.

I've just been called a "rape enabler" by the X AI tool Grok. This is a shocking allegation which has totally taken me aback & beyond anything I've ever encountered in normal political discourse. These AI tools are supposed to be there to serve us honestly with facts. Disturbing.

Why Nigel Farage's assault on human rights should reassure us - Pete Wishart It should come as no surprise that the latest assault on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is being led by Nigel Farage. His…

The fact that Reform & the Tories so desperately want to tear us out of the ECHR tells us everything about why we need it. It is there to protect us from tinpot populists like Farage and its protections are everything they despise. Now available to all on my blog.
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Nigel Farage's assault on human rights should reassure us. Here's why IT should come as no surprise that the latest assault on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is being led by Nigel Farage ...

We know the European Convention on Human Rights is doing the job it's designed to do when tinpot populists like Farage want to abolish it. It's there to protect us from the likes of him. My column on his campaign to deprive us of human rights protections.

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There was a debate about 'Scottish Devolution' in Westminster tonight where Scots Labour MPs queued up to 'attack' the Scottish Gov. it was like being savaged by wet highland coos. Rarely heard such a poor debate and such inarticulate rubbish.... Terrible.

Two Decades On, Britcard Returns — and So Does the SNP's Opposition - Pete Wishart Well, here we go again. It’s taken twenty years, but ID cards are back. This time in a shiny new digital format, turbocharged by modern…

It is the SNP that is leading the charge on having Digital ID confined to the digital dustbin of history. We beat them in the 2000s. We will beat them today. Here's why they are such a bad idea.

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Pete Wishart: We can end scheme to resurrect Tony Blair’s digital ID card dream WELL, here we go again. It has taken 20 years, but ID cards are back, this time in a shiny new digital format, turbocharged by modern technology.

Like we did under Tony Blair the SNP will lead the opposition to the data -grabbing, liberty-eroding, multi-billion-pound waste of time Brit-card. Let's confine it to the great digital dustbin of history. My column in the National.
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Managed to secure the first House of Commons debate on their Brit cards. We will vigorously oppose their data storing, privacy encroaching, multi billion pounds costing, digital white elephant.

Challenging the UK Government about the lack of any UK funding for Perth and Kinross. We are the only local authority in Scotland never to secure any UK programme support. I asked what the UK Government has against the people of Perth? I got gibberish in response.

On Politics Live today talking about our plans to secure another independence referendum. I actually get an answer from a Labour politician on how we could leave this 'voluntary union'. Be set to be disappointed....

Yesterday's statement on Digital ID. Scotland doesn't want their Brit card and we will oppose it energetically.

Expressing solidarity with the victims of the attack on Heaton Park Synagogue. But we don't give the haters and anti semites succour by restricting our right to protest or long established civil liberties.

This is exactly the kind of hate-filled politics that Reform thrives on — spreading lies, sowing distrust, and turning neighbour against neighbour. It is dangerous and reckless, and it has no place in our democracy. Farage has built his career on this brand of fearmongering.

This is better from the Courier. Helping to tackle misinformation and defuse tensions. One of the most common lies peddled by those trying to divide our communities over asylum is this rubbish about criminality. The police in Perthshire confirm - there is absolutely no evidence.

Why words matter in the local asylum debate - Pete Wishart ‘Fear of disorder behind asylum secrecy’ screamed The Courier’s front page on Monday morning.  Inside, the article suggested that Perth and Kinross Council had deliberately…

The Courier wrote an awful headline and article about asylum seekers in Perth this week and today they published an editorial about me denying a right to reply. Here's one anyway. This is a fragile situation. Words matter.
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How long before Labour backdown on this 'Reform is racist' stuff? I give it until the close of play tomorrow. Then it will be back to the familiar territory of accommodating and copying them again.

Awful headline on the front page of the Courier. They are inflaming community tensions by trying to suggest that criminal activity by asylum seekers is being 'withheld'. P&K Council are simply following Home Office protocols and the police tell us no incidents have been reported

I think people listening to Starmer this morning will only hear this grating political white noise. Already he looks like a leader who has nowhere to go and no real idea how to turn things round. Imagine if he actually believed in something.... #bbclaurak

'Yeah, that might work'. Said absolutely no one who understands the relationship between the branch office and the mother ship. They're in this together and Anas will always do what is required.

When politics is in crisis and everything seems too hard to resolve people turn to the populists and the scapegoats. The UK is heading for a bleak destination but in Scotland we can still determine a future of our own. My Perthshire Advertiser column.

The last Labour Government tried to introduce them as part of their weird assault on civil liberties under Blair. We opposed them then. We will oppose them now. Funny what you reach to when your situation becomes desperate...

Why don't you work with us you unionist/brit party, you.....