sdonald4pr @sdonald4pr1983
Dad, husband, author and researcher. Scottish, European, a big fan of Proportional Representation and also Aberdeen FC! sdonald4pr.com West Lothian, Scotland Joined May 2023-
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Was Brexit was about borders, bananas, bluster & Britannia? Or was it really about the middle class who thought voting Leave was a 'free hit' against a disappearing quality of life? The real reason we voted for Brexit: the grinding misery of inequality bylines.scot/podcast/the-re…
🎙️ NEW PODCAST EPISODE 🎧 Bylines Scotland writer, Stuart Donald, discusses his recent article; “The real reason we voted for #Brexit: the grinding misery of #inequality.” #podcast bylines.scot/podcast-2/
Brexit bonanza for Barcelona and Madrid which is now at the centre of an expat boom with wealthy foreigners buying expensive homes in Spain because they are attracted by the lifestyle and a desire to escape Brexit Britain. About 80,000 foreign residents from countries with a GDP…
I struggle reading Gordon Brown saying within a single FT interview that he didn’t realise how far backwards we could slide, that the forces pulling Britain apart are greater than those pulling it together, and that he doesn’t support PR because it favours extremists.
The real reason we voted for Brexit: the grinding misery of inequality bylines.scot/politics/brexi…
To do this they need to spend billions but under the First past the post system they can’t; can they move to PR to achieve it? See a discussion on this here: bylines.scot/politics/labou…
To do this they need to spend billions but under the First past the post system they can’t; can they move to PR to achieve it? See a discussion on this here: bylines.scot/politics/labou…
What is the link between the First-past-the-post system and the UK's extreme levels of inequality? Listen to professor Danny Dorling, author of recently published 'Shattered Nation', explain it all here: bylines.scot/podcast/glasgo…
Watching mealy mouthed, lost, pathetic Tory politicians pandering to extremists by being weather vanes instead of being signposts and leading from the front is always a good reason to post this take down of Enoch Powell by the great late Jonathan Miller.
A Labour MP admits Keir Starmer pulled every trick in the Westminster book to stop MPs voting for the SNP motion for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Filibustering, bullying the Speaker, and watering the motion down 👇
A Labour MP admits Keir Starmer pulled every trick in the Westminster book to stop MPs voting for the SNP motion for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Filibustering, bullying the Speaker, and watering the motion down 👇
No mention of collective punishment and no SNP representation on @bbclaurak this morning? Grotesque shut down of normal democratic debate. #InstitutionalFPTPRacism #RewireDemocracy #GetPRDone
The UK has the most progressive voters but we get right wing governments and a few low risk @UKLabour ones - here are thoughts on why and what we do - renewal.org.uk/the-left-wing-…
UK lab’s failure to fight tories and hold the progressive line since 1980 has given Uk the most acute inequality in Europe yet this clip shows how they are held to account by the bbc: read here what the media could & should be challenging them over: bylines.scot/politics/labou…
UK lab’s failure to fight tories and hold the progressive line since 1980 has given Uk the most acute inequality in Europe yet this clip shows how they are held to account by the bbc: read here what the media could & should be challenging them over: bylines.scot/politics/labou…
Whatever your view of Sturgeon or her handling of the pandemic, the KC might as well have just asked her implacable political foe Alister Jack whether or not he liked her. It would have saved a lot of time and a lot of verbosity, and revealed just as much of value (nothing).
Whatever your view of Sturgeon or her handling of the pandemic, the KC might as well have just asked her implacable political foe Alister Jack whether or not he liked her. It would have saved a lot of time and a lot of verbosity, and revealed just as much of value (nothing).
Neal is spot on. No other ‘progressive’ party in Europe allows itself to become so beholden to the rich and powerful. Read about the uncomfortable dilemma they conceal behind the scenes here bylines.scot/politics/labou…
Neal is spot on. No other ‘progressive’ party in Europe allows itself to become so beholden to the rich and powerful. Read about the uncomfortable dilemma they conceal behind the scenes here bylines.scot/politics/labou…
The largest steel works in Britain closed and the media didn’t even ask WHY We exposed the real reason - which was Brexit & cuts. It was watched by two million people. As independent media we need your help to keep exposing the truth about what’s really going on. Please…
Brilliant work from Femi here. Watch a string of high profile Labour personalities shamelessly back FPTP, the only so-called soc-dem party in the West still backing it. facebook.com/groups/votingr… and it you like that, then maybe you will like this too... bylines.scot/politics/a-rig…
I wish BBC wd stop saying Tory rebels are trying to ‘beef up’ & ‘strengthen’ the Rwanda bill. These phrases are far too positive for a horrible and pointless bit of legislation. Try saying far-right Tories want UK beyond international law even if it destroys country’s reputation.
See what fifty four and a half thousand people can do when they really put their mind to it? Inspiring stuff @KristinaHafoss 👏👏👏👏👏
See what fifty four and a half thousand people can do when they really put their mind to it? Inspiring stuff @KristinaHafoss 👏👏👏👏👏
After UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer praised Margaret Thatcher, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says the Conservative prime minister from 1979-1990 "decimated" Scotland. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…
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I heard @IainDaleAllTalk learn live on lbc from a haulage expert customs checks and paperwork couldn’t be negotiated away (the only way this happens is customs union membership). Some brexiteers are conmen. DaLe is a genuine moron. His media career should be finished over this
Great piece here from Bylines Scotland writer Stuart Donald @sdonald4pr1983 on how our archaic first past the post system drives ever widening inequality and pushed the English brexit vote. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…
Tories & Labour blocking opportunities for young people! #BrexitShambles UK rejects EU free movement for young people offer bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
The dogmatists in the Labour Party would appear to really dislike young people in the UK...
🚨🇬🇧🇪🇺🚨Labour says it has “no plans” for doing a youth mobility deal with EU — says it is “synonymous with free movement” (it isn’t) …but another poor sign for those hoping Labour will be brave on EU. /1 Via @FT on.ft.com/49NVCLf
🎙️ NEW PODCAST EPISODE 🎧 Bylines Scotland writer, Stuart Donald, discusses his recent article; “The real reason we voted for #Brexit: the grinding misery of #inequality.” #podcast bylines.scot/podcast-2/
Brexit bonanza for Barcelona and Madrid which is now at the centre of an expat boom with wealthy foreigners buying expensive homes in Spain because they are attracted by the lifestyle and a desire to escape Brexit Britain. About 80,000 foreign residents from countries with a GDP…
I struggle reading Gordon Brown saying within a single FT interview that he didn’t realise how far backwards we could slide, that the forces pulling Britain apart are greater than those pulling it together, and that he doesn’t support PR because it favours extremists.
Midfield artist.
1950 | Jackson Pollock makes his debut for St Johnstone at left-half in a 4-2 defeat of Cowdenbeath.
There is no legal obligation to pay a penny in interest to the banks for asking them to be so kind as to accept the money the government creates that keeps those banks afloat and in business. We could save £40 billion this way - not £3 billion. Why is Brown talking nonsense?
“You could probably raise over £1bn maybe up to £3bn… not paying what are quite high interest to the banks” Former PM @GordonBrown proposes withholding interest payments paid to banks on their reserves at the Bank of England to raise money and combat poverty #Peston
We need #ProportionalRepresentation in Canada NOW!
🥀 Labour and the Tories simply can't be trusted on Scottish education. ❌ Both parties voted against free tuition fees in Parliament last night. 🏴 Only @theSNP will stand up for Scottish students. 📲 More info: graemedey.info/only-the-snp-c…
@MarkSlater74 @pdehoest This and other pieces by @sdonald4pr1983 well worth a read equalitytrust.org.uk/blog/guest-blo…
'I just quit Labour after 24 years. We deserve better than the race to the bottom between Labour and the Tories. Labour want you to think there's no alternative. But there is....' Owen Jones 21/3/2024. Today is a good day in Scottish and UK politics. Go for it Owen...
I’d like to apologise for my ill-chosen worse in describing some Tory MPs and commentators as unpleasant or imbecilic. It’s now clear that they’re out-and-out racists.
Watching mealy mouthed, lost, pathetic Tory politicians pandering to extremists by being weather vanes instead of being signposts and leading from the front is always a good reason to post this take down of Enoch Powell by the great late Jonathan Miller.
A Labour MP admits Keir Starmer pulled every trick in the Westminster book to stop MPs voting for the SNP motion for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Filibustering, bullying the Speaker, and watering the motion down 👇
We hope Martin Geissler has the decency to feel embarrassed by the decision not to cover the biggest story in UK politics bar none on The Sunday Show. How can a Scottish current affairs TV programme refuse to cover HoyleGate when it impacts Scotland's main party at Westminster?
Kuenssberg on BBC 1 .Replete with Tories,Dowden & Coffey, Labour,Nandy & Burnham, even a Lib Dem( remember them) Davey. No SNP? I hear you say. Nope. Yet again their motion,their motivations last Wednesday to be pored over,dissected, discussed by others with no recourse to reply
No mention of collective punishment and no SNP representation on @bbclaurak this morning? Grotesque shut down of normal democratic debate. #InstitutionalFPTPRacism #RewireDemocracy #GetPRDone
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