#BBCLauraK just stated that there are terrible problems with the #Scottish#NHS. What's she on about - of course there are problems after 14 years of Tory mismanagement and corruption but we haven't even had strikes here unlike the rest of UK.
Kuenssberg confirms yet again that she's a mouthpiece for Sunak, trotting out exactly the same biased desperate anti-Scottish Government sound bites with which he defends himself at #PMQs.
This isn't journalism. It's gaslighting propaganda. Kuenssberg is another #BBC House Jock, just like Bruce.
Following the passing of the Rwanda Is Safe (Ipse Dixit) Act, at #PMQs Jonathan Gullis celebrates the Untied Kingdom's government 'deporting' its first asylum seeker to Rwanda.
What he fails to mention is that the individual in question volunteered to be flown to Rwanda at our expense, sweetened with a £3000 lump sum, again at our expense.
And our Second-Past-The-Post Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, fails to call his attack dog to heel.
Mahri Black of the #SNP at today's #Pmqs draws a parallel between mass graves found near Kiev & mass graves found outside a Gazan hospital
She reminds the HofC: "The UK's own arms policy states that even if there is a risk that war crimes may have taken place, then that is reason enough to halt the sale of arms.
And asks, 'Given what we know why, then, is the Prime Minister yet to do so?"
Dowden, who was the former chair of the Conservatuve friends of Israel, says something about democracy
From PMQs, via GPLB: "Stephen Flynn, the SNP leader, says given the Tory party is looking for a unity candidate to replace him, which of the Thatcherites on the Labour front bench would do the job best."
MPs' pay will rise from £86,584 to £91,346 next month without any increase in productivity. I have a better idea. Let those who think they are doing a great job clap for them on Thursdays instead. #PMQs
"In the final sessions of the Parliament of the Spanish Republic before the military coup of [18 July 1936] Assault Guards would frisk members as they entered the chamber and confiscate side arms that many were carrying."
So Antonio Muñoz Molina begins a piece on the dangers to democracy in the descent of Spanish parliamentary debate into insults, cynicism, lies, whataboutery and point scoring.
A lesson for Westminster and Holyrood? In Spanish.
The one person right now who you might have expect to be called to speak in a debate of racism in the House of Commons would be Diane Abbott who, subject of a high profile incidence of racist language from a Tory donor... yet the Speaker said that despite Abbott rising over 40 times to speak during the debate, he ran out of time to call her.
If you wanted to confirm to the average voter that the political system is racist, this would be a good way to do it.
Having had his wrist slapped for selecting a Labour amendment to an SNP opposition day motion, I'm guessing Hoyle chose to play it safe in not breaking convention by calling Ms Abbott.
After all, a Speaker serves at the whim of MPs and pissing off at least 20 scheduled to ask #PMQs would've have been, as YES MINISTER put it, "courageous."
DA presently doesn't hold the Labour whip so Starmer's intervention was likely calculated more to attack the Nastiz than to defend DA.
James O'Brien is incensed that Hoyle called Mark Francois instead of giving Diane Abbott a sort of 'Right of Reply' so I rechecked the Order Paper for 13/03:
#Democracy in the UK has been in trouble for some time. Things sank to an all time low today.
The archaic mechanisms of #PMQs were shown again to be a pointless male parlour game today, when the woman who has been the victim of headlines and threats to her life for the past 48hrs, Dianne #Abbott, was denied the chance to speak.
Ever noticed how the Tories at '#PMQs talk about train stations, baby hospitals and potholes rather than mentioning more national and global pressing matters?