Thread by @PandaScottish

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"Conservative & Unionist Party"

Leader - Devolution is a disaster

Scottish Leader - Devolution has not been a disaster

I am going to write a thread where I agree with Douglas Ross

On an obsession

https://twitter.com/Douglas4Moray/status/1328438555429974018

SNP Accused Of 'Misleading' Public Over School Cuts
In an extraordinary move, the statistics watchdog says "exaggerated" claims "do not give the full picture".

Special needs pupils being failed by system 'on verge of crisis'

Rising demand puts councils in Scotland at risk of bankruptcy

SNP are cutting school funding in real terms

Children are so hungry at schools teachers are taking extra food for them

SNP school cuts are depriving kids of sport as figures show alarming drop in school PE hours

The amount of per pupil spending in Scotland's schools has fallen by 8% since 2010

Schools are being forced to "beg for donations" and are slashing subjects in a bid to save cash

Catholic School sends parents 'begging' letter

A top secondary has been forced to hand out the begging bowl to parents, after blowing its entire £800,000 reserve fund in four years.

Schools in Nicola Sturgeon's constituency 'send out letters begging parents for cash'

Charities have said schools are in dire need of funding, warning that one-off handouts won’t solve the crisis.

One of Scotland's oldest schools writes begging letter asking parents to pay up to £75 a month towards its running costs

8 reasons schools have had to send parents begging letters because of SNP policies

Now obviously it's because the SNP cannot cope with the flood, the swarm of immigrants and the pressures they place on the system

See below: a 0.4% difference on immigration scenarios

So all the example headlines above are from 2010-2020

And are from English schools

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1095616667663720448

On Douglas' "everything else"

See food banks

https://mobile.twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1027093569851588609

See homelessness

https://mobile.twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1028785311718010880

See domestic abuse

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1142336645620031488

A young Margaret Roberts once talked of the bliss a Conservative government would bring for young people

Boris Johnson talks of "intensity and clarity" to school children

Liz Truss

Well she explains it beautifully

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1320685911500345345

Just like others in the period of 2010-2020

Who knew exactly what the consequences were

Not to worry though Nicky Morgan was able to stomach her conscience enough to accept her reward from Boris Johnson

Yay for "one nation Conservatism"

So on jobs

A reminder

>£4.4bn brexit prep cost
£170bn BOE stimulus cost
>£130bn lost growth (so far)
£39bn liabilities

Cost of brexit *so far*

£343 billion

And brexit so bad that the Tories seek to exploit a pandemic in which to mask its effect

It's great to see Douglas talk about "obsession"

bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-sco…

And as to the clips of poor Robert Jenrick this morning been sent out to defend Boris Johnson

Robert Jenrick

A man whose dinner dates with Richard Desmond are very profitable (well to Richard at leaset)

Let alone constituency bungs

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1328604318254166019

Now Robert says that Boris Johnson "is at heart a unionist"

Here's a reminder of what BORIS JOHNSON agreed to in the withdrawal agreement

AND HIS OWN FUCKING WORDS

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1184843920578093057

And here's a reminder of those who said they had "many solutions" to the NI border

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1108307267575840769

I do wish I was a journalist

I suppose I will have to settle for being a citizen

As Abraham Lincoln put it

“I should regret to see the day in which the people should cease to express intelligent, honest generous criticism upon the policy of their rulers.”

There is a simple question to Boris

If devolution has been a disaster

Then accepting that premise as true

What do you propose to do to fix it?

See also #Wales and the below

And a reminder of Dominic Raab pre 23/6/16

Tory MPs may push for second referendum after 2020 if Remain win, says Vote Leave minister. Conservative MPs may push for a second referendum on EU membership with a few years if Remain win, Dominic Raab, the justice minister, has said.

Boris Johnson's reset is hollow

It is bullshit

He & his cult needs an eternal division

To distract from their record, their legacy

e.g. on Black Lives Matter and "defund the police"

But hey "the people's priorities"

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1321871265553096704

So amidst

Austerity and its knowable consequences

Brexit and its eternal shitshow

Covid and its "massive success" as Boris claimed it

If you sell the reset - shame on you

If you buy it - wake the fuck up

/end

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