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Ross Colquhoun
@rosscolquhoun
💻 Head of Digital @theSNP @YesScot on 8 winning national elections 🎸 Co-founder of @WeAreNational 🎨 @eca_edinburgh grad 📱 The revolution will be digitised
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Oct 31, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 The latest Scottish Social Attitudes report (2021-2022) has been published. Here are some of the key findings.

Two thirds (66%) of people in Scotland trust @ScotGov to work in Scotland’s best interests, compared with 22% who trust UK Government. gov.scot/binaries/conte… 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 People in Scotland were more likely to trust the Scottish Government (48%) and their local council (31%) to make fair decisions than the UK Government (15%).
Oct 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The Russians once planted bugged USB drives in kiosks near NATO headquarters in Kabul, hoping that American personnel would buy a drive and plug it into a secure computer. It worked. It should worry us how easy this was since we now know much of the UK Government’s business appears to be done outside of official channels.
Mar 19, 2021 • 70 tweets • 6 min read
I always liked Monty Python. Well, what have the SNP Scottish Government ever done for us?
Feb 13, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
👀 Current Scottish Tory electoral strategy:

- Make Scotland great again
- Drain the swamp
- Attack broadcast media
- Undermine confidence in postal voting
- Deny democracy

☠️ Have I missed anything else they’ve borrowed from Donald Trump playbook? 🤔 Make Scotland great again.
Feb 1, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
🤨 An unambiguously British nationalist image from the party political broadcast for Scottish Labour. This comes from a place of attempting to emulate the Tories as much as possible in the hope that Brexit backing seats in the North of England will return to Labour.
Feb 1, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
I'm certainly not unique in this, I rarely have time in any day to focus on distractions within sections of the independence movement.

I'm laser focused on #SP21.

But I will use this moment to make it clear that Tories are banking on infighting doing their work for them. Image If you are pro-independence, regardless of political affiliation, I'd advise it's best to do everything that you can to make sure that pro-independence voices are elected at #SP21 to ensure that Scotland has a choice about its future.

For me, that's by making it #BothVotesSNP.
Dec 27, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Hi @Jackson_Carlaw, is this you? What's changed? Hi @John2Win, are you a man of your word? What's changed?
Mar 7, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The wall to wall coverage of Coronavirus is giving me flashbacks to the time I woke up with an extremely blinding and piercing headache. I rarely get ill, but I knew there was something seriously wrong, so a family member took me to hospital in north Edinburgh straight away.

After some initial checks by a doctor, they sent me to a quarantined bed in a private room for further tests and treatment.
Feb 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
👀 Music from these islands will become a career for the only the wealthy.
Aug 21, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #GERS: Scotland’s notional deficit is falling faster than the UK’s, with onshore revenues increasing by 5.1% to reach £61.3 billion in 2018-19 as a result of continued economic growth. 📈 #GERS: Scotland benefitted from a £3 billion increase in onshore revenues in the last year – the fastest growth since 2010-11 as the overall notional deficit fell by £1.1 billion to 7.0% of GDP, down from 8%, in 2018-19.
Feb 17, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @JennyLConstable, who voted No in 2014, eloquently explains why she would vote for independence in a future referendum on Scotland’s future.

- Scotland being told that voting No in #IndyRef would mean remaining in EU.

- Scotland’s remain vote being ignored after #EUref. In my view, one of the best things about 2014 was the many new articulate voices that came to the fore during #IndyRef. Each person that makes there voice heard gives others the confidence to do the same.
Dec 11, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
📈 Not only have @theSNP been consistent in their position on Brexit, its been a steady hand navigating the Scottish economy through rolling seas of Brexit. This can often be lost in the heat of the Brexit debate.

📰 Here's some of today's good news. 🏠 8,767 homes delivered for the year to September 2018

🏘 A total of 80,104 affordable homes have been provided since 2007

👩‍💼 Per head of population, 50% more affordable homes and more than five times as many social rented properties in Scotland than in England since 2014
Sep 11, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 With the front page of today's @ScotNational in mind, by sheer coincidence, I bought a book last week called 'Addresses Against Incorporating Union 1706-1707'. The book cover. Apparently, Glasgow was divided on the Union and it 'stimulated unusual levels of protest'. It also states that 'strong anti-union sentiment' was found amongst Glasgow artisans.
Sep 4, 2018 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
🏢 @NicolaSturgeon: “We will introduce a Non-Domestic Rates Bill to implement other recommendations of the review – for example, reforming rate reliefs and moving to a three year valuation cycle.” #ScotPfG 👷‍♀️ @NicolaSturgeon: “We will increase the number of modern apprenticeships in line with our commitment to 30,000 per year by 2030.” #ScotPfG
Sep 3, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theSNP is now officially the second biggest political party in the UK. You can join thousands of people across Scotland helping to build a better nation: snp.org/join 👨 👱‍♀️ This also means that around 3% of the electorate in Scotland are members of @theSNP. A politically engaged society is good for society as a whole.
Sep 2, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Latest Scottish independence poll:

Yes: 52%
No: 48%

Out of the 86 polls on independence since the 2014 referendum, 87.2% have shown support for independence higher than 2014 levels. 🙍‍♂️🙍‍♀️ The latest Social Attitudes Survey found that 41% of people view independence as a positive for Scotland’s economy, up from 26% in 2014 – and now outnumbering those who believe otherwise.
Aug 8, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
😺 Since it’s #InternationalCatDay, here’s a thread of cat photographs I’ve taken. 😽
Aug 3, 2018 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🛫 🇮🇪 An Irish plane. 🌿
Jul 28, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The mind boggles as to why some news broadcasters shut down on people sharing their news coverage. It’s not a good look, particularly for a public broadcaster. From the UK government website. Certain exceptions only apply if the use of the work is a ‘fair dealing’. For example, the exceptions relating to research and private study, criticism or review, or news reporting.
Jul 9, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🔍 I don’t know much about my Father’s side of my family, so I’ve spent the last few months doing some family research. So far it’s taken me to Stewarton in Ayr, via Govan in Glasgow, and Luss in Loch Lomond. I discovered via the Burns Chronicles that my Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather Colquhoun was a friend of the Burns family of Ayrshire, and had one of them as a lodger for some time. So I decided to go to Alloway, via Stewarton, to see where they lived.
Jul 2, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A Tory councillor doubling down on questioning @JoyOfTheSNP's right to have her voice heard on the basis that she made Scotland her home after living in another country. This is what happens when the Scottish Tory leadership don't have the backbone to deal with it. Utterly toxic. If you scratch beneath the surface of the cosy liberal image that Scottish Tories try to project there's a rotten core.