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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 6d

This is better from the Courier. Helping to tackle misinformation and defuse tensions. One of the most common lies peddled by those trying to divide our communities over asylum is this rubbish about criminality. The police in Perthshire confirm - there is absolutely no evidence.

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 7d

The Courier wrote an awful headline and article about asylum seekers in Perth this week and today they published an editorial about me denying a right to reply. Here's one anyway. This is a fragile situation. Words matter.
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Why words matter in the local asylum debate - Pete Wishart

‘Fear of disorder behind asylum secrecy’ screamed The Courier’s front page on Monday morning. Inside, the article suggested that Perth and Kinross Council had deliberately…

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 8d

How long before Labour backdown on this 'Reform is racist' stuff? I give it until the close of play tomorrow. Then it will be back to the familiar territory of accommodating and copying them again.

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 9d

Awful headline on the front page of the Courier. They are inflaming community tensions by trying to suggest that criminal activity by asylum seekers is being 'withheld'. P&K Council are simply following Home Office protocols and the police tell us no incidents have been reported

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 10d

I think people listening to Starmer this morning will only hear this grating political white noise. Already he looks like a leader who has nowhere to go and no real idea how to turn things round. Imagine if he actually believed in something.... #bbclaurak

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 10d

'Yeah, that might work'. Said absolutely no one who understands the relationship between the branch office and the mother ship. They're in this together and Anas will always do what is required.

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 12d

When politics is in crisis and everything seems too hard to resolve people turn to the populists and the scapegoats. The UK is heading for a bleak destination but in Scotland we can still determine a future of our own. My Perthshire Advertiser column.

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 13d

The last Labour Government tried to introduce them as part of their weird assault on civil liberties under Blair. We opposed them then. We will oppose them now. Funny what you reach to when your situation becomes desperate...

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 13d

BREAKING: The Scottish Government has confirmed it opposes Labour's plans to introduce compulsory Digital ID

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 13d

Why don't you work with us you unionist/brit party, you.....

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 13d

This is a fantastic poll. They have flung absolutely everything at us but we remain 17 points ahead.
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SNP post huge lead over Scottish Labour in second Holyrood poll in two days

THE SNP have posted a commanding 17-point lead over Scottish Labour in the second Holyrood poll in two days ...

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 14d

This is an enormous amount of money and Labour don't seem to be taking this seriously at all. A full investigation must surely be instigated.
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SNP call on Keir Starmer to launch inquiry into Morgan McSweeney donations row

The SNP have called for Keir Starmer to "order a full and immediate inquiry” into the allegations that his top aide broke the law by hiding…

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 14d

Not questioning it in the least. We've described the union as 'incorporating' for a number of decades. It is on the issue of Scotland being given colony status by the UN (or whether the Scottish public would go along with it) is where the bigger, more trickier, issue emerges.

Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 15d

Why don't we take away your job and if you don't take the first job offered we deport you?

Let's see if you're willing to work.

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 15d

He's as bad at economics as he is at deporting your friends and neighbours....

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 16d

There's a real sense that Farage has grossly overreached with that nasty, intimidating press conference. He'll be coming for members of our community, friends, colleagues, people who are settled here, and when it gets personal he will lose. This might be our best chance to halt his progress yet.

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 16d

The rise of the far right is now a constitutional issue and the fight for Scotland will be between independence inspired social democracy and the far right. It is a political battle we must win.
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The rise of the far right is now a constitutional issue - Pete Wishart

There is a new toxic atmosphere in our national politics — and it’s only going to get worse. Last week, over 100,000 marched in London…

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 16d

Hi Scotland. That will be the people who keep our NHS together. The people who staff our hospitality and tourism businesses. The people who stop our economy from tanking. This is what Labour's pandering to Farage does.

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 17d

Sorry, my friend. Your posts are getting just a bit obsessive. I'm going to put you on mute for a while.

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 17d

Sometimes this place is just as bad as Musk's Xitter. It's the whole 'in it for himself', 'he must be a traitor to the cause' rubbish all over again. I really hoped it would be different here.... Alas.

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 17d

I'm elected to represent the people of Perth and Kinross and most of them would simply laugh at you if suggested to them that they were colonised. We will never convince people of the case for Indy if we don't start from where people are at.

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 17d

Prof Robertson work is useful and instructive. The guy on your video is just simply awful. You'd be best keeping him well away from ordinary people if you want to progress this colony stuff.

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 17d

That one is a little bit less 'compelling'. We will never be a colony because of the BBC. You'd be better sticking with Robert Black.

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 17d

Seen it before and it's a fantastic historical perspective into what Prof Black describes as the effective incorporation of Scotland into an ongoing English state. After 300 years of union whether it is relevant to contemporary considerations of a 'colony' is another matter. Powerful stuff though.

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 17d

I congratulate them on bringing forward this proposal especially the work around the incorporation of Sco into the union. But if you bring forward a proposal you have to expect not everyone will agree and that it will be critically analysed & challenged. I'm sure Liberation would expect nothing less

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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 17d

I came on here to get away from the childish insults. Let's try and make it a place where we can have grown up exchanges. I'm simply not prepared to put up with it on here.

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