Alex Gallagher · @AlexGallagher
366 followers · 1520 posts · Server mastodon.scot

A wee question....

If, after 13 years in power, the Tories are responsible for crumbling school buildings in England....

.... who, after 17 years of the SNP being in power, is responsible for crumbling school buildings in Scotland?

@THESNP@mastodon.social @thesnp@bird.makeup
@thesnp@birdsite.tcjc.uk

thescottishsun.co.uk/news/1117

#scottishpolitics #snp

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Dr Craig Dalȝell · @thecommongreen
608 followers · 796 posts · Server mastodon.scot

My article in this week's @common_weal newsletter.

It's another long one, as I take you through this year's Programme For Government.

commonweal.scot/programme-for-

#growth #wellbeing #scottishpolitics

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Alex Gallagher · @AlexGallagher
366 followers · 1517 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Latest poll has Labour and SNP neck-and-neck in Scottish UK voting intentions for Westminster. This would give Scottish Labour 24-28 seats in Westminster and the SNP 18-22 seats.

Depressing for @thesnp but good news for Scotland.

Lots of other interesting findings as attached.

redfieldandwiltonstrategies.co

#scottishpolitics #ScottishLabour #labour #snp

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Dr Craig Dalȝell · @thecommongreen
608 followers · 794 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Herald
Humza Yousaf: wealth tax possible due to pressure on public finances
heraldscotland.com/news/237717

Glad to this conversation is reaching Government at last.

See my take here: thenational.scot/politics/2375

Short version: My target for a wealth tax would be land and property. Can't take them with you and you can be taxed on it whether you live in Motherwell or Monaco.

#tax #wealth #scottishpolitics

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Alex Gallagher · @AlexGallagher
366 followers · 1516 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Today Humza Yousaf launched his totally inadequate so-called "Programme for Government".

Here's the truth

twitter.com/ScottishLabour/sta

#politics #scottishpolitics #snp

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Alex Gallagher · @AlexGallagher
366 followers · 1511 posts · Server mastodon.scot

In my view, Scotland is being let down by the Tories in Westminster and the SNP at Holyrood. This analysis would seem to chime with that view.

"Sceptical Scotland Awaits a Positive Plan"

ourscottishfuture.org/sceptica

Scotland's Future, a group well worth subscribing to IMHO.

#scottishpolitics #ScotlandsFuture

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Alex Gallagher · @AlexGallagher
363 followers · 1507 posts · Server mastodon.scot

"Poverty underscores every one of Scotland's miserable statistics"

Mandy Rhodes, a one time indy-sympathetic journalist, analyses the failures of the SNP and the miserable state of Scottish governance.

holyrood.com/editors-column/vi

#scottishpolitics #snp #scottishindependence #independence

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Alex Gallagher · @AlexGallagher
360 followers · 1502 posts · Server mastodon.scot

I stopped reading at "SNP big-hitters"

A phrase that would be odds-on favourite in the World Oxymoron Championships.

scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/new

#scottishpolitics #snp

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Dr Craig Dalȝell · @thecommongreen
602 followers · 780 posts · Server mastodon.scot

New column in this week's Common Weal newsletter is a long one but possibly the most important I've written.

Due to a loophole that must be urgently closed, Common Weal has been forced to delete from the public record several attempts to tell you how we've lobbied MSPs. We have no idea how many orgs deliberately exploit this loophole to hide their lobbying.

commonweal.scot/lobbying-trans

#transparency #commonweal #scottishpolitics #politics

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Dr Craig Dalȝell · @thecommongreen
602 followers · 777 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Economic strategy aside, I hope the new constructions built as part of the "Glasgow Golden Z" plan will be built to the highest standards (including the incoming PassivHaus-equivalent standards) and that they'll be designed to last a lot longer than e.g. the Buchannan Galleries they're about to tear down.

thecommongreen.scot/2023/01/27

Story here: heraldscotland.com/news/237558

#passivhaus #glasgow #scottishpolitics

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Dr Craig Dalȝell · @thecommongreen
597 followers · 773 posts · Server mastodon.scot

New Policy Podcast!

This week, I talk to Barry Fisher from Keep Scotland Beautiful about Scotland's litter emergency and how we could address it by making companies responsible for the waste their products produce.

commonweal.scot/podcast/the-co

#podcast #waste #scottishpolitics

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Alex Gallagher · @AlexGallagher
358 followers · 1481 posts · Server mastodon.scot

"Can you see how bad it is yet?"

Pro-independence blogger Robin McAlpine gives ten reasons why the SNP is in serious decline and ... it's not a comprehensive list!

robinmcalpine.org/can-you-see-

@THESNP@mastodon.social
@thesnp@bird.makeup

#politics #scottishpolitics #scottishindependence #independence

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Alex Gallagher · @AlexGallagher
358 followers · 1481 posts · Server mastodon.scot

"Scottish Government papers on independence contain 'nothing very new' says former Yes chief"

He could have stopped at "nothing".

"Vacuous nonsense" was the best review I saw and that was being kind.

dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic

#politics #scottishpolitics #scottishindependence #snp #independence

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Dr Craig Dalȝell · @thecommongreen
592 followers · 764 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Dr Craig Dalȝell · @thecommongreen
592 followers · 764 posts · Server mastodon.scot

I'm in The National today, discussing how Scotland could better tax excessive wealth.

thenational.scot/politics/2375

#inequality #scottishpolitics #ukpolitics

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Alex Gallagher · @AlexGallagher
357 followers · 1475 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Given there's already a police investigation into possible undeclared donations, this just gets murkier and murkier for @THESNP

Not to mention the missing £600k, the Murrel loan, the mystery campervan et al ....

dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis

#policescotland #scottishpolitics #politics #snp

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Alex Gallagher · @AlexGallagher
357 followers · 1475 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Alex Gallagher · @AlexGallagher
357 followers · 1471 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Dr Craig Dalȝell · @thecommongreen
585 followers · 758 posts · Server mastodon.scot

The Welsh public energy company is now an actual thing. Welcome Ynni Cymru. May your Scottish counterpart launch then catch up before too long.

edie.net/wales-launches-public

#energy #welshpolitics #scottishpolitics

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Dr Craig Dalȝell · @thecommongreen
584 followers · 756 posts · Server mastodon.scot

My article in this week's Common Weal Newsletter.

Recent auctions of German offshore wind show, once again, just how much Scotland lost by botching the ScotWind auction.

The devil is in the detail however, with oil companies possibly paying to protect their oil investments rather than moving into renewables.

commonweal.scot/schottwind-her

#renewables #eupolitics #scottishpolitics

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