Thread by @theSNP

📢 @StephenFlynnSNP: “I look at this in a slightly different way because if HS2 is going to Leeds, then the reality is there is no chance it’s coming to Scotland.

And I have to say I would be surprised if anyone was actually surprised at this announcement.” #bbcqt

📢 SF: “What we’ve seen over the last 6 months or so is a litany of broken promises:

❌ The pensions triple lock,

❌ International development aid commitments,

❌ The promise not to raise taxes,

❌ To build carbon capture and underground storage in the North East.” #bbcqt

📢 SF: “If we are looking at the reality of Boris Johnson’s premiership today, if we look at his history, it is broken promise after broken promise.” #bbcqt

📢 SF: “And you see the reality of that in the polls at the moment with his Conservative Party dropping, and we see the reality of that in Scotland, where the Tories haven’t won an election since 1955.” #bbcqt

📢 @StephenFlynnSNP: “Language really matters in this debate. Now we’ve heard Mims talk about economic migrants trying to cross the channel.

The overwhelming majority of individuals who are going on these dinghies, are going on these dinghies because they are fleeing something.”

📢 SF: “They are fleeing conflict, they are fleeing drought, they are fleeing circumstances that none of us, none of us, will ever, ever experience.” #bbcqt

📢 SF: “And the Home Office own figures show that is what they are doing.

This argument that they are economic migrants is absurd and the reason that they go on these dinghies is because of the government’s policies, the hostile environment that they have created.” #bbcqt

📢 SF: “The fact that they got rid of safe routes, the fact that they have turned a blind eye to cuts to Aid funding.” #bbcqt

📢 SF: “The Home Office do not provide Scottish local authorities with the resources and they do not want to take part in this UK government’s hostile approach to people who are seeking asylum in this country.” #bbcqt

📢 SF: “Language matters and it’s about time the UK government realise that.” #bbcqt

📢 @StephenFlynnSNP: “What we’ve seen over the course of the last week has shamed us all.

We’ve had Conservative MP after Conservative MP be embroiled in scandals of sleaze.” #bbcqt

📢 SF: “We had the Scottish Conservative leader who *forgot* to register £28,000 that he’d earned, £28,000.

How many people in this room would forget about £28,000? I mean, for goodness’ sake!” #bbcqt

📢 SF: “What Boris Johnson has done is, when one of his MPs was shown to be corrupt, who lobbied on behalf of a private company, the Prime Minister didn’t show leadership.

He sought to cover it up.” #bbcqt

📢 SF: “And what we’ve seen over the course of the last couple of weeks is a light has been shone on the Conservative Party, and the reality is that we should all be angry about that, because everything that’s happened, over the course of the last few weeks…” #bbcqt

📢 SF: “…is that they still believe it is one rule for them and another rule for the rest of us.” #bbcqt

📢 @StephenFlynnSNP: “ Everyone will be familiar that if you *happen* to donate £3 million to the Conservative Party, if you *happen* to be a former treasurer, then you will so *happen* to end up in the House of Lords.” #bbcqt

📢 SF: “Having been appointed by the, I think, Prime Minister, so there is a level of corruption that we probably need to look at in a little bit more detail.” #bbcqt

📢 @StephenFlynnSNP: “If we don’t accept that there is a structural problem, we will not fix that structural problem.

I listened to the testimony in Parliament and I could not help but be moved by it.” #bbcqt

📢 SF: “It did not matter if it was related to cricket at all, this was a young individual whose life had been turned upside down, simply because of the colour of his skin. How wrong is that?” #bbcqt

📢 SF: “And what we have seen in the summer, in relation to Rashford, Sancho and Saka, I was devastated because I knew what was coming when they missed those penalties.

We have a problem, and we need to fix it.” #bbcqt