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9 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Em. Am I missing something (genuine question)? Because the pics I have seen are of a piece of black slate with some white writing on it about women rights. I'm assuming the slate intended to represent a gravestone and the name of the person being women's rights?
I'm only asking for peoples opinion on this because if that's inappropriate behaviour/vandalism, I am really in trouble because my first experience of politics was as a 5-year-old carrying a banner through the streets of hawick....
which was black cardboard in the shape of a coffin and it read in white writing "R.I.P Hawick, Dying due to Tory Cuts!" - So I am (and this isn't me being obtuse - I am genuinely asking) if I have missed something here? Can someone explain?
All I can see in this picture is someone exercising their right to free speech to an elected representative. It's be different if there was threats. But that doesn't seem to be the case. It's just a well place rock by the looks of it. Not like they can organise a picket line.

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9 Mar
On the matter of the dismissive "pop-up party" comments that keep getting made by certain people. Two things I will say - AFI is not a standard party - it's an alliance of many under one name on the ballot paper.
The second thing is the term "pop-up" - that's a falsehood. The term pop-up literally means denoting an organisation that OPENS UP QUICKLY in a temporary location and is intended to operate for only a short period of time.
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9 Mar
The Scottish National Party could cut the UK Government off at the knees over legal action tomorrow if it wanted, by supporting the #peoplesas30. Or at the very least having their parliamentarians do it personally. Instead, they've chosen to stay silent on the very court case...
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Instead, they have chosen to remain silent, and are now advocating using taxpayers money to defend a challenge that would be unnecessary if they had backed the people's action. It's absolutely mental!
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9 Mar
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So here's what's going to happen next if the #PeoplesAS30 doesn't establish the right of Scotparl to legislate for a second referendum. Nicola will ask boris for a sec 30 again. He'll say no.
The SNP will then lay their bill before parliament and the UK Government will immediately challenge it preventing it from gaining royal assent.
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8 Mar
I'm just going to point out that with both leaders of both pro-indy parties now confirming legal challenge of the referendum bill by Westminster is likely if its constitutionality without a section 30 order remain in doubt; and testing that in court being, in Patrick Harvie's...
...own words "a perfectly legitimate approach to take". - Why then has no politician put their neck on the line to test it - because this mere pleb has - taking a year of abuse I might add AND facing financial ruin to do it.
I really don't think I am out of line to say that parliamentarians are missing something - a spine!
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8 Mar
Good Morning Scotland! Good Morning World! Good Morning GCHQ! We start today with an article about the greens which simultaneously made my left eye twitch and also ended up me pebble dashing my PC monitor with my cup of tea. Thread 👇
In the national @patrickharvie said this:
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