Thread by @theSNP

📺 @DavidLinden MP: "The people who come to these islands to seek asylum are some of the most vulnerable people in the world. People who are fleeing war, sexual violence, famine, persecution because of their sexuality." #bbcqt

DL: "The way the British Government treats asylum seekers within the Home Office system is absolutely despicable at the best of times." #bbcqt

DL: "The fact the UK Government can't rule this out right now really does indicate they do want to treat people like some sort of cattle-prodding, penal colony." #bbcqt

DL: "What I'd like the Secretary of State to rule out right now is this idea they'd use Scottish islands as some way of processing asylum seekers. I don't know if Grant can clear this up right now, if he can't that would be deeply alarming." #bbcqt

DL: "I find it very difficult to take lectures about careful and cautious language from a government that has the Hostile Environment. Every single day in my constituency casework I see some of the most vulnerable people in the world being messed about by the Home Office." #bbcqt

DL: "Left in substandard accommodation because the Home Office don't care. This is just the latest example of really irresponsible policy from the British Government, which has no care whatsoever for some of the most vulnerable people coming to this country." #bbcqt

DL: "The first thing we're doing to help students is to increase testing. We've now put in a walk-in centre in Glasgow and St Andrews as well. It's about acknowledging this is not the fault of young people." #bbcqt

DL: "Going to university is an incredibly exciting thing for young people, and it's a very difficult time for them as well. So at the moment there's a lot of guidance being worked up with the National Union of Students, which has certainly been welcomed." #bbcqt

DL: "We are very hopeful people can get home at Christmas. Christmas is a long way off and the most important thing is controlling this virus at the moment." #bbcqt

DL: "I support a League 1 club in Scotland, which is not players on massive salaries. I think one of the things it's important for people to remember is, yes, there are big football clubs out there, players on big wages..." #bbcqt

DL: "..but for the vast majority of us in communities, it's small clubs, small teams who are really struggling at the moment." #bbcqt

DL: "We need to go back again and look at the financial support. The financial package brought forward by the Treasury, whether it's furlough or the excluded three million, is just totally inadequate. The government has pulled a lot of that financial support." #bbcqt

DL: "I don't think Rishi Sunak can get to Christmas without looking again at the financial packages he's offered, because what he's put on the table so far is not going to cut it for communities, clubs, and most of all people who are really struggling at the moment." #bbcqt