Murdo Fraser on Twitter: "You were deputy to a First Minister who said ‘I detest the Tories’.
— Murdo Fraser (@murdo_fraser) September 11, 2025
Just yesterday you called @CraigWHoy1 ‘disgusting’ and ‘despicable’ for raising constituents’ concerns over asylum hotels.
There’s a link between othering & demonising opponents & events in the US."
Do better. https://t.co/GC1ptnzqvU
That's a despicable comment from Fraser. Imagine using a murder to make a petty opportunistic attack on a political opponent. The Scottish Tories are disappearing down the plughole and are showing their true colours in their futile fight against the inevitable. https://t.co/cQHWLSIZlL
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) September 11, 2025
He's rightly pointing out the double standards, hypocrisy and self-awareness bypass of the First Minister you cretin.
— Blues Brother (@wavydot) September 11, 2025
On reflection, are you proud of that tweet?
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) September 11, 2025
No idea who this guy is, but his attempts at spreading hate seem to have fallen pretty flat. Not a single like or share.
— Murdo Fraser (@murdo_fraser) September 11, 2025
Oh, and it’s ‘Mr Fraser’ to you. https://t.co/fTSQw0akVv
Gutted that my stellar year on the Alba NEC apparently passed you by, Murds, but c'est la vie. Oh, and that's Mr Guy to you.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) September 11, 2025
Murdo will be disappointed to learn that my original tweet has now been retweeted and liked, although there is actually a semi-serious point here. Somerset Stew is forever gloating about my engagement rate on Twitter as well (presumably because Scot Goes Pop's steady rise up the SimilarWeb rankings over the last year has left him in need of a different angle), but the reality is that I have 12,000 followers on Twitter and there is something profoundly strange about the low engagement rate generated by such a large number of followers over the last couple of years. I am scarcely the first person to wonder whether Elon Musk or one of his minions has 'massaged' the Twitter algorithms to target certain types of account - although whether I've fallen foul of that because I'm a general leftie, or because I'm a MAGA critic, or because I'm an opponent of genocide in Gaza, I have no idea. What I will say is that I regularly post identical tweets on Twitter and BlueSky, and the engagement rate on BlueSky for the same tweet is often better than on Twitter - even though I have just 184 followers on BlueSky. Draw your own conclusions.
Dodgy property purchases are a hot topic.
ReplyDeleteThe BBC raises (rightful) questions about how Farage’s constituency home was purchased for £885k in cash. Farage says his French misses bought it.
In Peter Mandelson’s potted biography, the BBC mentions Mandelson’s first resignation as a Government Minister. Mandelson failed to declare a £373k loan (1998 money) from dodgy Labour MP, Geoffrey Robinson.
While they’re at it, will the BBC mention Morgan McSweeney’s £750k purchase of a holiday home in Lanarkshire? Aged 46, McSweeney, whose employment history was almost exclusively as a back office, apparatchik for the Labour Party, somehow managed to scrape together three quarters of a million quid for a weekend retreat.
Surely a hut at Carbeth wid hae bin mair appropriate?
McSweeny - Garage's secret weapon.
DeleteLatest Westminster voting intention from RefUK friendly Find Out Now, field work 10th Sept.
ReplyDeleteUK headline; RefUK 15% lead, +2% on previously week, but no change within statistical noise from Find Out Now.
Crazy, Scottish sub-sample (136)
Con 11%, Lab 8%, LibDem 13%, RefUK 27%, Green 9%, SNP 26%.
Labour in sixth place & RefUK in first place. Wish I had some of what Find Out Now’s smokin’.
Oor neeburghs across the Celtic sea hae baws.
ReplyDeleteRTÉ will withhold fae the European Song Contest (which has been suspiciously non-European for years now) if the Zionist, colonial state is competing.
Dublin next to be bombed by Israel?
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ReplyDeleteI totally endorse this letter in the National by the way:
https://archive.is/Lpo1R
"I live in Port Glasgow. It is not the 'most dismal' town in Scotland"
Clearly not-so-Urbane Snobby Realms are clueless.
Nice diversion yi2
ReplyDeleteI see some of scumboy fraser’s Ibrox mates were down in London today marching. Makes a change I suppose from assaulting clergy and singing sectarian songs. His hypocrisy is staggering, as is that of the half wit Blues Brother supporting him.
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