What has Deidre Brock been up to today?
Deidre Brock is MP for Edinburgh North and Leith and a member of the Scottish National Party party.
Deidre Brock has 17177 followers on Twitter.
This is simply incorrect. Statements on Tuesday are normal. All parties incl Lab agreed to move drugs debate to Thursday once it was clear how many amendments had been put forward to legislation this afternoon and how long that would take, meaning the debate would be very late. https://twitter.com/michaeljmarra/status/1541784444591374339
Due to the First Minister’s statement on her referendum bill the debate tonight on Scotland’s drug deaths has been postponed.
⚖️ The full text of the Scottish Independence Referendum Bill, announced in Holyrood today: https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/strategy-plan/2022/06/scottish-independence-referendum-bill/documents/scottish-independence-referendum-bill/scottish-independence-referendum-bill/govscot%3Adocument/Draft%2BBill%2B-%2B27%2BJune%2B2022.pdf
🏴 First Minister @NicolaSturgeon: “I can announce that the Scottish Government is proposing that the independence referendum be held on the 19th October 2023.”
Pretty jaw-dropping stuff
"UK government said it "intends to legislate to remove the Trade Union (Wales) Act 2017 through primary legislation when Parliamentary time allows, to ensure trade union legislation applies equally across Great Britain".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-61957466
Black House
A b/w snap of a ‘black house’ style croft house and barn on a hill – likely somewhere near Ardgay/Bonar Bridge. Three people, a woman and two men are standing in front of the building.
NICOLA STURGEON 'Whatever path we take it should be one decided by us, not for us.' #Indyref2023
The Scottish Government will invest £100 million in hydrogen over the next few years. We want more companies to enter and invest in the sector. Further information on the Hydrogen Innovation Scheme is available in the link below.👇 https://twitter.com/scotgovnetzero/status/1541406000577531904
The Hydrogen Innovation Scheme will unlock additional private investment in the technology, and enable new companies to enter the sector.
It's part of a wider @scotgov commitment to invest £100m in hydrogen over the coming years 🌍.
➡️https://tinyurl.com/6rukpajr
@edinburgh @cllrcammyday @DeidreBrock @BenMacpherson pls RT https://twitter.com/sodascone/status/1541027295586095105
@EdinPolNW Please RT #LostDog #Granton #waterfront #jackrussell handed into Drylaw
All the best things (BBQ, art & skating) at Skateboobs event today between 10-3pm at the Leith DIY ramp off Leith Walk.
Get yourself along! 🐌
Ed Davey absolutely terrified of saying anything about rejoining EU SM, FoM. The @LibDems @scotlibdems are as hamstrung by a commitment to a hard #Brexit as the Tories & Labour. #SundayMorning
The First Minister railed against years of austerity 'forced on Scotland by Westminster governments that we did not vote for'
https://www.thenational.scot/news/20236204.nicola-sturgeon-scottish-independence-essential-halt-uk-tory-austerity/
"In early June 2008, I spent an uncomfortable night in a damp, dingy, dark bedroom in Kinloch Castle on the Island of Rum"
https://www.thenational.scot/comment/20235387.kinloch-castle-rum-vaunted-sale-really-local-community-wants-see/
When you find out your research has been raised in Parliament 🤯. Thank you @DeidreBrock and @openDemocracy for raising our research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPFK8in62is
You can find the report here: https://www.idea.int/publications/catalogue/regulating-business-election-campaigns. And article here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/conservative-party-electoral-commission-2019-general-election/
This Pride season, many LGBTI people and allies are joining marches happening across Scotland 🏳️🌈
#Pride2022
Great to see people in town getting ready for #EdinburghPride. Being openly gay at school & Uni in the 90s led to violence and being socially outcast. How far we have come. Let’s never go backwards. Have a great day and stay safe 🌈 ❤️.
The news release on the Food Security & Supply Taskforce is here
👉 https://www.gov.scot/news/safeguarding-food-security/
A copy of the full, government/industry report is here
👉 https://www.gov.scot/publications/short-life-food-security-and-supply-taskforce-report/
Thanks to @scotgov for quick action & industry who contributed.
This is just the start.
12/12
Extremely important piece of work this 👇, never saw or heard any reporting of it on @BBCScotlandNews #bbcgms etc. #FoodSecurity #farming #food https://twitter.com/scotfoodjames/status/1539870009836568576
For 3 months, @scotgov Cabinet Secretary @MairiGougeon & I have chaired a Food Security & Supply Taskforce.
Set up just after Russia invaded Ukraine, it’s report is now out.
A short 🧵 on why it marks a turning point in how we prioritise food security in this country.
1/12
Edinburgh Bus Tours would like to wish everyone celebrating Pride in the capital a brilliant day 😊🏳️🌈 #LoveIsLove
#EdinburghBusTours #PrideEdinburgh #EdinburghPride #PrideMonth
For 3 months, @scotgov Cabinet Secretary @MairiGougeon & I have chaired a Food Security & Supply Taskforce.
Set up just after Russia invaded Ukraine, it’s report is now out.
A short 🧵 on why it marks a turning point in how we prioritise food security in this country.
1/12
Except in Scotland, where voters overwhelmingly back the EU. Yet Scottish Labour are going along with the strategy of backing Brexit so that Labour can win over Tory voters in the north of England. https://twitter.com/iandunt/status/1540339057192058881
But you can't blow your load demanding Labour campaign for the single market now. Telling voters you want to reopen the Brexit issue would be suicide.
Right to abortion overturned by US Supreme Court after nearly 50 years “Whatever the exact scope of the coming laws, one result of today's decision is certain: the curtailment of women's rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens.” https://news.sky.com/story/right-to-abortion-overturned-by-us-supreme-court-after-nearly-50-years-in-roe-v-wade-ruling-12628801
Positive comments @NicolaSturgeon #RHS2022 that farming is essential and integral to Scotland and that the Scottish Government will use its powers to the Maximum extent to help Scotlands farmers & Crofters. @NFUStweets
Day two breakfast at the Royal Highland Show hosted by Shepherd Wedderburn and Bidwells. Mairi McAllan speaking on rebalancing Scottish Agriculture touching on trade deals, SACGS and the price challenges facing farmers. #NFUS2022 #RHS2022
TILDA SWINTON 'I don’t quite believe the word British. I feel like it’s sort of a strictly-for-export term. I have never felt British, politically. I am happy to describe myself as Scottish and I feel, like many people, that Scotland is a naturally independent country.' #indyref2
🔴 @DeidreBrock in Parliament today asking about @openDemocracy 's recent story about how the Conservatives have failed to explain what £3.6m of spending in the 2019 general election paid for.
Clip well worth a watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPFK8in62is
Culture Secretary @AngusRobertson has welcomed @Screenscots report on how the screen sector delivers £567.6 million Gross Value Added to the Scottish economy & sustains 10,280 jobs, saying: "Supporting the screen sector to grow and develop sustainably is a key @scotgov priority."
We’re all set up for the @ScotlandRHShow! We're here until Sunday, come and experience some of Scotland's finest produce. Stop by to say hello and stock up on Mara Seaweed 🌊
#HighlandShow #RHS200
Ahead of historic 🇪🇺 EU Council meeting @Europarl_EN gives Ukraine unambiguous backing for EU candidate status (and a standing ovation) 👏🏼👏🏼🇺🇦
"It’s no coincidence that the very politicians the Human Rights Act holds to account want to see it fatally weakened,” says Amnesty International’s UK Chief Executive Sacha Deshmukh on the government’s new Bill of Rights.
Delighted to join this impressive group of women in Italy over the last two days for the Global Women Leaders Summit - an opportunity to share experiences and consider how to drive faster progress on gender equality and climate change. Thanks to @giwps and @RockefellerFdn https://twitter.com/PEspinosaC/status/1539525917671833600
Happy to be in Bellagio with Secretary @HillaryClinton and Ambassador @MelanneVerveer for the 2022 Global Women Leaders Summit co-organized by the @RockefellerFdn and @giwps.
Great to share insights and lessons learned on how together we can drive progress on #GenderEquality.
@DeidreBrock asks "will all the human rights he wishes to cover in his Bill apply to all people in the UK...and shouldn't human rights apply to everyone?" #PoliticsLive https://twitter.com/BIHRhumanrights/status/1539556803599552512
The Govt says it'll make it harder for people being deported to rely on their right to family life.
Ask your MP: How does the Justice Sec justify reducing rights for certain groups of people? https://bit.ly/3tTEMZw
A thread worth reading and following up. The #Brexit report cited could have been sub-titled “Fantasy Island’ so removed is it from reality. https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1539486719090774016
Now we really have reached the witch-burning stage of Brexit, which makes no pretext of needing evidence to make its cases or explain why the policy is failing. I give you this report by the Centre for Brexit Policy attributed to a wide range of figures. https://centreforbrexitpolicy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Defining-Britains-Post-Brexit-Role-in-the-World-Final-20-June-22.pdf
We are DELIGHTED ten more kittens have been born in our conservation breeding for release centre at @HighlandWPark 🧡
Born to mums Tulla and Margaret, the two litters of five could be among the first of their kind released into the Cairngorms next year 👉 http://bit.ly/TenMoreKittens
Last week, the Scottish Election Study, an independent, academic study of Scottish politics, elections and voting behaviour, published results showing that a clear majority of Scots consider the results of the last election to be a mandate for #indyref2:
https://scottishelections.ac.uk/2022/06/15/is-there-a-mandate-for-indyref2-evidence-from-the-scottish-election-study/
Is that right, Mr Jack? Despite the majority in our parliament for that referendum? Let’s be clear, a country’s right to choose should not be determined by the “firm belief” of an MP whose party holds only six seats in Scotland… https://news.stv.tv/politics/scottish-secretary-alister-jack-says-snp-do-not-have-mandate-for-indyref2
Brexit Legacy Is Hotter UK Inflation Risk for Years to Come - “The UK will be stuck with searing inflation for years because of Brexit, according to strategists at Wall Street’s top banks” Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-22/brexit-s-legacy-is-hotter-uk-inflation-risk-for-years-to-come
In Scotland, we have a Gaelic saying: Ceud Mìle Fàilte. It means ‘one hundred thousand welcomes’. Whoever you are, wherever you come from, you are welcome in our country. That was my message to the Global Parliamentary Conference on Migration in Istanbul today.
#RefugeesWelcome
🔎 Scottish Tory transport spokesman does not think the UK government should be negotiating with rail unions.
👀 But just a few weeks ago, he was urging the Scottish Government to do just that.
👉🏼 To the Tories, this is all just a game.
Guardian front page, Wednesday 22 June 2022: Tory bill accused of ‘fatally weakening human rights’
City center in #Kharkiv looks like this today.
My hometown.
We will restore and rebuild everything. But we can't bring back lost lives.
🗳 The people of Scotland voted to have a referendum on Scottish independence, but that wont stop some political commentators attempting to muddy the waters.
You either respect democracy, or you don’t.
It’s not a political point, it should be a pillar of our society. https://twitter.com/YesScot/status/1395746925165563906
🔎 David Cameron used 36.9% as a mandate for an EU referendum.
🗳️ In the latest election, the SNP got 47.7% and an increased pro-independence majority at Holyrood.
📺 Bernard Ponsonby on STV says "it is not credible" for politicians to deny Scotland's right to choose.
“The people of Scotland have secured a cast-iron democratic mandate to decide their future – and neither Alister Jack nor Boris Johnson has the right to block that mandate."
- @DeidreBrock https://twitter.com/BBCandrewkerr/status/1538889978704453635
Scottish Affairs committee chairman Pete Wishart asks the Scottish Secretary what is the democratic route for Scotland to secure its independence and dissolve the Union? Alister Jack says his firm belief is that now is not the time and the desire for a referendum is low.
Labour is now joining the Tories in damaging opposition to free movement of people, which Scotland desperately needs. Scotland must re-join the EU and restore free movement as soon as possible, and will only happen with independence. #indyref2 🏴🇪🇺 https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1538771495522078721
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Sir Keir Starmer is preparing a speech about immigration in which he will rule out bringing back free movement with Europe if Labour wins the next election https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kier-starmer-to-rule-out-return-of-free-movement-with-europe-gdd0976gm?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1655700725-1
😂 Heading towards 250,000 views. https://twitter.com/rosscolquhoun/status/1538104090739322880
🤷♂️ A bizarre clip of Murdo Fraser revealing some of the many reasons why the Tories at Westminster don’t want Scotland to become independent.
Scottish goods 'to be hit with EU tariffs' if Boris Johnson sparks trade war - whisky & salmon amongst items predicted to be worst affected #Brexit #NIProtocol https://www.thenational.scot/news/20220792.scots-goods-to-hit-eu-tariffs-boris-johnson-sparks-trade-war/
Interesting trial from Oz - drone planting 40k tree seed pods, shrubs and grasses a day in battle to improve biodiversity & blitz non-native invasive species in Australian Botanic Garden https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-19/giant-drones-dropping-tree-seeds/101150496
🤷♂️ A bizarre clip of Murdo Fraser revealing some of the many reasons why the Tories at Westminster don’t want Scotland to become independent.
Congratulations to James Robertson for winning Sir Walter Scott prize. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-61839134
Another excellent piece by @tconnellyRTE summing up current positions on the #NIprotocol & relations with Europe: “The view across EU capitals is “that at every turn, London’s legal and political justification has been convoluted and disingenuous”
NI Protocol: No off ramps, only cliff edges via @RTENews https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2022/0617/1305512-ni-protocol-cliff-edge/
“…the Scottish government’s case for independence once again, this week, sounded more dynamic, more credible, and more in tune with 21st century values than the Unionist forces ranged against it” - @joycemcm https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/unionists-wheel-out-same-old-propaganda-guns-against-new-case-for-independence-joyce-mcmillan-3734969