📺 @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
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JS: “I’m the first to acknowledge that we face challenges in our health service as a consequence of the aftermath of COVID and the aftermath and the implications that’s had on the amount of time that people are having to wait.”
JS: “I’m sorry for the amount of time that people are having to wait for treatment. We are reducing the longest-waits’ and we’re making headway in that.”
📣 First Minister @HumzaYousaf at #FMQs: "You can judge a man by the company he keeps, and Douglas Ross's company is Boris Johnson, the Conservative Party of Liz Truss, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel, formerly Lee Anderson, Mark Menzies, Peter Bone, Chris Pincher..."
HY: "Andrew Bridgen, Frank Hester...and I can see Douglas Ross looking more and more embarrassed. That's the company he keeps. I'm very proud of John Swinney, Kate Forbes, and all the company I keep." #FMQs
HY: "Our anti-poverty measures, they are estimated to lift 100,000 children out of poverty this year - in very stark contrast to the Conservatives." #FMQs
First Minister @HumzaYousaf at #FMQs: "Douglas Ross says we all have a zero tolerance approach to hate crime. I'm not entirely convinced, when you take money from a racist misogynist and then refuse to give it back, that is a zero tolerance approach whatsoever."
HY: "Those stirring-up offences for racial hatred have existed since 1986. We are simply extending those offences to other marginalised groups." #FMQs
HY: "I think it's important for Douglas Ross to be honest, to tell people, who is it he thinks is not deserving of those protections, in the same way I've been protected because of my race since 1986?" #FMQs
.@MhairiBlack: "For two reasons I think we should scrap the Rwanda policy all together.
First of all, from a moral compass. I think it is a barbaric system, there is no such thing as an illegal human being - especially not those who are fleeing war and persecution." #bbcqt
.@MhairiBlack: "Even if you just look at it from a financial argument. The UK Gov'ts own figures show that the taxpayer will pay £169,000 per migrant - that's to send one person to Rwanda.
It's going to cost £1.8bn to deport all 11,000 people that have arrived this year." #bbcqt
@MhairiBlack .@MhairiBlack: "If the Tories are serious about spending money in good places, it would have been a good idea over the last decade not to keep implementing austerity, not to hand out COVID contracts out to their pals for PPE that wasn't fit." #bbcqt
.@MhairiBlack: "The DPM said it was his duty to furnish people with 'the facts that are available' in regards to Brexit.
Brexit Britain faces higher food prices, a lack of workers, a shrinking economy & a decline in living standards. Why is he happy to ignore those facts?" #PMQs
.@MhairiBlack: "The only thing more deluded than that defence of Brexit, is Labour's support for it.
Just today, the world's fourth largest car manufacturer said Brexit was 'a threat to our export business and the sustainability of our of UK manufacturing options'." #PMQs
.@MhairiBlack: "Even Nigel Farage can admit Brexit has failed, so Mr Speaker, why can't the Deputy Prime Minister?" #PMQs