🚨 Boris Johnson is coming to Scotland today to try and salvage some sort of support for the union.
👀 It would be a shame if someone was to ruin his visit by doing a thread on just some of the things the PM has said about Scotland and devolution...
🔎 Oh look, a thread!
👀 It would be a shame if someone was to ruin his visit by doing a thread on just some of the things the PM has said about Scotland and devolution...
🔎 Oh look, a thread!
❌ In November 2020, Boris Johnson told his MP’s that "devolution has been a disaster north of the border" and it was "Tony Blair's biggest mistake".
❌ He also told this MPs that under him no more powers would be handed down from Westminster.
bbc.com/news/uk-politi…
❌ He also told this MPs that under him no more powers would be handed down from Westminster.
bbc.com/news/uk-politi…
❌ In February 2001, Boris Johnson also had this to say on devolution...
telegraph.co.uk/comment/425912…
telegraph.co.uk/comment/425912…
❌ In that same article back in February 2001, Boris Johnson seemed to have an issue with Scots holding Cabinet positions...
Heres one more from the 2001 article Boris Johnson penned...
❌ “The Scots are grossly over-represented at Westminster in the sense that each Scottish MP has 54,000 electors, and each English MP has 69,000.”
❌ “The Scots are grossly over-represented at Westminster in the sense that each Scottish MP has 54,000 electors, and each English MP has 69,000.”
💷 Of course, we have the now infamous “A pound spent in Croydon is far more of value to the country that’s a pound spent in Strathclyde”
https://twitter.com/erikgeddes/status/1131876917798477825
❌ Boris Johnson also described a Tory promise to keep the Barnett Formula as “reckless”
❌ He also hit out at plans during the independence referendum to boost the Scottish Parliaments financial powers.
❌ He also hit out at plans during the independence referendum to boost the Scottish Parliaments financial powers.
❌ The PM has criticised the Barnett Formula quite a lot. In 2009, he described it as a “system of amazing political antiquity by which the English taxpayer sends about £20 billion every year to Scotland as a kind of present”.
heraldscotland.com/news/17665296.…
heraldscotland.com/news/17665296.…
🏴 20 opinion polls in a row show a majority of Scots now back Scotland becoming an independent country.
🗳 Boris Johnson can try and halt democracy but he will fail.
Democracy is a process not an event as he likes to make it out to be.
🗳 Boris Johnson can try and halt democracy but he will fail.
Democracy is a process not an event as he likes to make it out to be.
📢 At the elections in May, @theSNP will be seeking the express authority of the Scottish people, no one else’s to hold a post-pandemic independence referendum.
🗳 The best way to guarantee we can deliver that referendum is to make it #bothvotesSNP
⚠️ Every vote will count.
🗳 The best way to guarantee we can deliver that referendum is to make it #bothvotesSNP
⚠️ Every vote will count.
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