What has John Nicolson been up to today?
John Nicolson is MP for Ochil and South Perthshire and a member of the Scottish National Party party.
John Nicolson has 46038 followers on Twitter.
Well said @MrJohnNicolson 👍 https://twitter.com/JeremyVineOn5/status/1542086416057909248
“Democracy isn’t a one-time process... it develops.”
The Supreme Court is to rule on the Scottish government's plans for a fresh independence referendum to be held next October.
But @MrJohnNicolson thinks that Scottish people are entitled to "choose [their own] future."
Mix-up by Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries during speech at a Rugby League World Cup event in St Helens.
“I’ve always quite liked the idea of rugby league - my long-standing memory is that 2003 drop-goal. We were drinking Bloody Marys at the time. Wow, what a moment that was.”
Nadine Dorries seems to have made a faux pas in an area covered by her ministerial brief. Can't believe I'm saying those words. #RugbyLeague #RugbyUnion #FactCheckWhatever
Arlene here so keen to curtsey that she apparently went round curtseying to random members of the Queen's staff (ie the royal household). That must have caused some giggling.
Why did’t she curtsy ?? It was one of the greatest privileges I had as FM of NI to curtsy to members of the royal household including HM the Queen. https://twitter.com/CameronDLWalker/status/1542224681335492611
As Scotland ponders its future, I can’t help but feel we could be better represented as an independent country on the world stage. #indyref23
Thank you Colin 🙂 That made me chuckle. Always a pleasure to chat through the issues with my fellow panelists on @JeremyVineOn5 Some are more up to speed than others.
@MrJohnNicolson It was like watching Brian Cox trying to explain quantum physics to Barry Chuckle
You are a much more patient man than I will ever be John
Liz Truss on #r4today sounds like a twelve year old talking about foreign news stories she's been studying at school that day.
Good luck to @RossvaleJFC for the new season. Their 11th! Phenomenal.
Thank you so much. That's kind of you to say.
@MrJohnNicolson You sir we’re awesome on @theJeremyVine 👏👏👏🏴🏴🏴🏴
Thank you Marc. That’s very kind of you to say. @JeremyVineOn5 @Ianblackford_MP #Indyref2023
Credit to @MrJohnNicolson - a masterclass in how to handle any assertive commentator or right wing opponent. Calm, cool and extremely well informed. Knows his brief and dismantles any argument (or petulant toy throwing) with grace and precision. More of this through the campaign
There are some horrific search terms allowed on and by porn sites. At the #OnlineSafetyBill Committee, I raised with UK Government ministers image-based sexual abuse and child sexual abuse that are driven by some online pornography.
I’m looking forward to welcoming Google to Alloa to host a Google Digital Garage event on 8th July. I hope to meet as many local businesses and residents as possible to find out more about how digital skills can benefit the Wee County.
Register now at: https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/google-event-alloa?fbclid=IwAR0Wo5LCMMyJjBuyuA3GjeH75xZTB72rw0j0JpXlpoofMdaETpT8wqX7HW0
Winking, braying and guffawing. #PMQs at Westminster over for another week.
"What if that other voice we all know so well responds saying 'we say no and we are the state'? Well, we say yes and we are the people." @Ianblackford_MP quotes Canon Kenyon Wright's timeless words. Right in 1990, right in 2022. #pmqs
"Scotland has already paid the price for not being independent" @Ianblackford_MP says, citing a hard #Brexit we didn't vote for, dragging us out of the #EU against our will. "We will have our referendum on independence." #pmqs
"Not Scotland. Not your debate" the Speaker says to the Scottish Labour MP. Mmm it's #PMQs which I thought was still a Union institution....
All feels a bit cosy between Dominic Raab and Angela Rayner what with the winks and grins. Very Westminster. #pmqs
Did I just see Dominic Raab wink at Angela Rayner mid answer? Bizarre. #pmqs
Angela Rayner reminds the Commons of Dominic Raab's debate with me on the @vicderbyshire show when I challenged him for his haughty dismissal of food bank users as folk experiencing "short term cash flow problems". #pmqs
Unwise surely for Dominic Raab to talk repeatedly about law and order at #pmqs All it does is remind the public of the chronic law breaking at the heart of government.
“Only the Scots should have a say.”
Political Commentator @MarinaPurkiss spots the “hypocrisy” of the UK government in wanting “to deny the Scots the vote to leave the Union” after years were spent settling Brexit.
@MrJohnNicolson | @ClaudiaLizaTV | #JeremyVine
Take from this a.m.'s media round is that it is so important for the SNP to have coherent and impressive perfomers at all times in front of mikes & cameras. Some are less media friendly than others.
@MrJohnNicolson & @NicolaSturgeon did good work today. Only 14 mos to go..👏🏴
More gulping, empty heided staring, and inarticulacy as the UK Foreign Secretary tries to answer some basic questions about human rights. Extraordinary that she’s unable to denounce murder or mass executions. What a state we’re in. Scotland - we can do better. #Indyref2023
Liz Truss having a torrid time, trying to explain to @RhonddaBryant why a state that murders journalists abroad and executes people at home is not "authoritarian".
Incredibly awkward. In the end, effectively, has to admit that the UK can only deal with one threat at a time. ~AA
“Democracy isn’t a one-time process... it develops.”
The Supreme Court is to rule on the Scottish government's plans for a fresh independence referendum to be held next October.
But @MrJohnNicolson thinks that Scottish people are entitled to "choose [their own] future."
Thank you George. Most kind of you to say. And we do indeed. @JeremyVineOn5
@MrJohnNicolson @JeremyVineOn5 Concise and factual as ever John. Put Angela Epstein's gas to a peep. we are privileged to have an array of great speakers both in Westminster and Hollyrood.
Thank you Decky. Most kind of you. Loved his autobiography.
@MrJohnNicolson @JeremyVineOn5 All handled with debonair aplomb.
David Niven-esque...
Thank you Jackie. Always fun to do @JeremyVineOn5
John Nicolson cool, calm and all over it. #jeremyvine
Thank you Liz. Always fun to do @JeremyVineOn5 - although today's was a trifle surreal at times.
Excellent from my MP @MrJohnNicolson on Jeremy Vine and nice to see @MarinaPurkiss also recognises our democratic right to self determination
Getting ready to go on @JeremyVineOn5 to talk about Scottish independence and that exciting referendum! On air from 09.30.
“Getting the big calls right” latest in a series. Worries about rising inflation “unfounded” Boris Johnson said in October.
Here's Boris Johnson last October describing fears about surging inflation as "unfounded".
Today inflation hit a 40-year high.
❝In 2014, voters rejected independence by 55%. Brexit has changed the game. Scots opposed Brexit by 62% and warily watched as the UK chose to leave the EU rather than remain stronger together, the very argument used two years earlier to convince Scots to oppose independence.❞
Substitute USSR for UK and these words could have been spoken by Brezhnev.
Scotland as seen by our European neighbours.
Today’s statement by Scotland’s First Minister @NicolaSturgeon featuring in France’s most-read daily, Le Monde: ❝In Scotland, the objective of the First Minister’s party is that the country rejoins the EU as an independent state.❞
Looking forward to talking about Scotland’s referendum and this exciting news tomorrow morning on @JeremyVineOn5 at 09.30 Do tune in if you get the chance!
📣 Scotland's future is up to the people of Scotland - and they will have their say.
🗳 @NicolaSturgeon has now set out the path to the referendum on 19 October 2023.
🏴 The campaign is on - get involved today: http://www.yes.scot/signup
🏴 @NicolaSturgeon is about to set out the roadmap to Scotland's independence referendum.
🗳️ Scotland's future is up to the people who live in Scotland, not Boris Johnson and Westminster governments.
⏰ Tune in at 2:20pm today on http://scottishparliament.tv.
This afternoon First Minister @NicolaSturgeon will give a statement to @ScotParl on plans for an independence referendum.
Watch live ➡️ http://scottishparliament.tv from 2.20pm.
Great from@fionahyslop #indyref2
"Why are they denying the people and businesses of Scotland the opportunity to be successful?"
SNP's @FionaHyslop tells @KayBurley Scotland will have a "lawful referendum" on independence.
https://trib.al/Rx0iR33
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Astonishing that this woman is the UK Foreign Secretary. Here she is, caught out by the simplest of questions, staring vacantly, unable to answer. It’s embarrassing. How much better Scotland would fare as an independent country representing ourselves on the world stage. #indyref2
Truss says she "raises human rights issues with Gulf leaders all the time". Her spokesman says she hasn't. Asked by @RhonddaBryant to name a single occasion, she cannot.
This is Brexit's wider context: not just the alliance we trashed, but what alliances it's forcing us into.~AA
How cool is Holyrood?
Bees feed on wildflowers that grow on it, bairns splash in the pools oot the front
And today, a roadmap to Independence, to turn this unique spot into a fully-fledged National Parliament in the EU 💪🇪🇺🏴 #indyref2
“Getting the big calls right….” Here is Boris Johnson mocking his Tory colleague Tobias Ellwood last November when he told the PM that Russia posed a danger on the European mainland and that constant Government cutbacks in the UK military were unwise. #Ukraine
As General Sir Patrick Sanders speaks of "our 1937 moment" and warns "you can't cross a river with cyber", let us remember how the PM laughed at "tank battles on European landmass" only three months before the invasion and dismissed the budget uplift he is about to announce. ~AA
🦠 Figures indicate 1 in 20 people in Scotland were infected with COVID-19 last week.
🏥 Around 900 people who have tested positive are in hospital, 20 are in intensive care with the virus and 41 died last week with COVID on their death certificate.
To help stop the spread:
Scotland’s screen sector is reaching a critical mass with new studios, production projects, jobs, skills and domestic as well as global industry interest. Details in @edinburghpaper @screenscots #FilminScotland https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/scotlands-new-hollywood-is-on-course-to-become-a-ps1-billion-industry-angus-robertson-msp-3746842
John Nicolson MP says he could not ‘imagine a less appropriate group’ to receive funds than the sinister LGB Alliance with its long history of online abuse.
https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/mp-queries-national-lottery-community-funds-disturbing-decision-fund-lgb-alliance/fundraising/article/1791154
The notorious "help me Rona" debate where then Cabinet minister LibDem Alistair Carmichael, floundering, claims the Brexit referendum his party had demanded wouldn't result in Scotland being dragged out of the EU against our will. That was "scaremongering" he said. Have a listen.
👀 Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael: “The only way to guarantee leaving the EU is by leaving the United Kingdom.”
PA reporting that the Prime Minister today told the Argentinian President that “the Falkland Islanders, like all people have a right to self determination.” Well, quite.
"John Nicolson MP said independent Scotland will be one of the “most progressive countries in the world” on asylum and migration." https://www.thenational.scot/news/20238013.uks-ukraine-refugee-response-slammed-snp-mp-global-migration-conference/?ref=twtrec
Thank you @mrjohnnicolson for all your hard work on #ZachsLaw. Your op-eds, vocal support in debates and your behind the scenes lobbying played a big part in this result. We know you'll join us in ensuring that this commitment is backed by Govt action and written into law asap! https://twitter.com/MrJohnNicolson/status/1541413214260436994
I’m so pleased that we have been able to achieve this at Westminster. Thank you for coming to me @epilepsysociety It was horrifying to discover that wicked people were sending flashing images to trigger seizures. It’s been great to work together on #ZachsLaw https://twitter.com/epilepsysociety/status/1541354893335724032