Gavin Williamson

BBC "We want Scotland's opening game, seeing as it's their first WC in 28 years."
ITV "We want to show it, seeing as it's crucial to win, being against Haiti. We'll bid top dollar!"
BBC "Whatever you bid, we'll double it."

* Game schedule for 2am GMT*

ITV "It's all yours!"
BBC "No, after you."

📺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Tomorrow at 10AM - tune in as the First Minister John Swinney MSP joins us for a landmark event on Scotland’s independence. Watch it live on all SNP social channels and be part of the moment shaping our nation’s future.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

It’s all just a grift, “stand up to the elites””party of the ordinary workman” they said. They are in it for money for them and there backers.

Scottish voters unlikely to embrace Reform UK Professor John Robertson OBA Dani Garavelli, not for the first time, in the UK media telling them things about Scotland that make little sense: Almost 13 years ago, at a press briefing to launch Uk…

Scottish voters unlikely to embrace Reform UK talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/06/s...

Scotland’s energy industry facing ‘existential threat’, Swinney warns PM The First Minister met with the Prime Minister ahead of a summit of the British-Irish Council in Wales.

Update on the deep concern I raised with the Prime Minister about job losses in the Scottish energy sector.

We need a just transition but the UK Government must take different decisions.

The EU’s Fine Against X is Not About Speech or ‘Censorship’ | TechPolicy.Press The €120 million fine under the Digital Services Act is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, writes Stanford's Daphne Keller.

Don't let anyone — not even the US Secretary of State — tell you that the European Commission's €120 million enforcement against Elon Musk’s X under the Digital Service Act is about censorship, writes Daphne Keller. It’s just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, she says.

John Swinney defends immigration as Scotland faces rise of Reform Exclusive: First minister mounts robust defence of diversity as SNP prepares campaign for Holyrood election in May

Slightly strange slant from The Guardian. Feels like it can't quite believe that Scottish voters really aren't the same as English voters.

Would pay them to get out of Westminster a little more often.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Will have to see if that 25% of Scots transpires .. but at least Scotland has actual leadership vocally opposing the xenophobes & racists .. the SNP have been consistently vocal about how Scotland benefits from migration for yrs .. Reform & the racists are fear mongers & haters

BREAKING: Malcolm Offord, the current treasurer of the Scottish Conservative Party and a member of the House of Lords, has defected to Reform UK

Football fan friends: I want your opinion

How do you feel about going to America for the World Cup?

I’m not a football fan but I called off a major family holiday to America as I just didn’t want to put money into that country’s coffers. I don’t want to endorse what’s happening

What’s your view?

Scottish Labour MSP quits party role over friendship with sex offender A Scottish Labour MSP has resigned from a party role over her friendship with a convicted sex offender

www.thenational.scot/news/2567760...

I love football but can not watch any more of this shite from #FIFA I’m switching telly off

Jeezuz Christ on a bike FIFA have invented a peace prize to give to Trump.

post: Norway’s oil wealth fund is now worth more than $2Trillion. But for the ‛broad shoulders’ and BetterTogetherness of Westminster Scotland would now be as poor as Norway.

Norway’s oil wealth fund is now worth more than $2Trillion.
But for the ‛broad shoulders’ and BetterTogetherness of Westminster managing Scotland's oil and gas, Scotland would now be as poor as Norway. #DodgedThatBullet #IndependenceIsNormal #Scotland

Gawd get on with bleeding draw #fifa #worldcup26 20 minted in and no sign of pots just endless chuntering

Our NHS still faces challenges after the pandemic, but we’re making real progress:

✅ Reducing long waits
✅ More operations
✅ More GPs

Thank you to our NHS staff for all your hard work. 👏

Europe must wake up: Trump’s Ukraine plan hands victory to Russia President Trump’s Ukraine “peace plan” is a capitulation to Russia that must wake European leaders up to the reality that we cannot rely on…

As I pointed out in last week's @heraldscotland.bsky.social, "when you can only rely on a partner for four-year stints, you cannot rely on them at all".

Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy

“Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise: “teenage Farage would sidle up and say “Hitler was right” & “gas them”sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas chambers. Eight contemporaries have corroborated the claim.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: The New York Times is suing the Department of Defense over the Pentagon’s new restrictions on press access. The Times is seeking a declaration that the new policy is unconstitutional on its face and an injunction barring its enforcement.

Elon Musk's social media company X has been fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators for breaching EU online content rules, the first sanction under landmark legislation that will likely draw the ire of the US government.
https://cnn.it/4rFLpea

Latest Ferry story! Things are getting bad but never thought it would get to this level

75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history

75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men

Is this what democracy looks like?

New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access into heart of Labour government Ex-Tory MP facilitated meetings with 10+ Labour MPs and met ministers in “cash-for-access operation”

🔴 BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access to 10+ Labour MPs and minister

Brand new investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys.

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...

From today, over 96,000 unpaid carers in Scotland will receive a £293.50 Carer’s Allowance Supplement payment - extra support that’s only available here in Scotland.

Dignity and fairness in action. That’s what you get with an SNP government.

BMA Scotland humiliated and Scotsman condemned as only 5% of Consultant and SAS doctors respond to their survey with nearly 99% apparently not bothered or content Professor John Robertson OBA The Scotsman yesterday had the above based on a survey published by the BMA (Scotland) trade union. How many consultants and speciality associates are there in NHS Scot…

Once more TalkingUpScotland exposes both the Scotsman & BMA Scotland for the shameful, fifth columnists they are.
Gross misuse of statistics to further their Scotland is shite, SNP Bad agenda. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/04/b...

Farage’s contemptible attack on Glesca weans Nigel Farage has been a racist bully again. But don’t worry, he’s only doing it indirectly and without intent to offend or insult. So that’s OK then. Just days after the Scottish …

My latest blog piece, just days after the Scottish Languages Act comes into force, Farage attacks Glasgow school kids in order to scaremonger about immigration. A new low even by his disgusting standards.

weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/f...

Dreadful, but why were such valuables being kept in a van overnight, theft at 23:30?

You will be shocked to discover after reading these stories that while Rachel Reeves claimed to have been the "British girls under-14 [chess] champion" she was in reality merely the "Under 14s British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls" Champion.

This is getting utterly ridiculous now

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