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| 141. Author: Buspasspar Date: Sat 8th Jun 2024. 19:26 I refuse to watch that refuse We are forever shaped by the Children we once were Reply |
| 142. Author: Tenruh Date: Sat 8th Jun 2024. 20:20 jake89, Sat 8 Jun 18:59 No question related to Independence, that would suit the SNP then....you`d like to think they`d try and introduce it to the debate , well maybe not đ Reply |
| 143. Author: jake89 Date: Sat 8th Jun 2024. 21:08 And then all that would happen is it would be latched onto. You wouldn`t make a very good politician đ Reply |
| 144. Author: Tenruh Date: Sun 9th Jun 2024. 06:30 jake89, Sat 8 Jun 21:08 Funnily enough I`ve got to agree with you....I was asked to stand in a local by-election and declined as I`m well aware of my abilities. Not that it`s stopped others On reflection after the 5th July the SNP will be sitting on the back benches swapping seats with the LD party maybe they should have been a bit more radical and become not very good politicians. Post Edited (Sun 09 Jun 11:22) Reply |
| 145. Author: jake89 Date: Sun 9th Jun 2024. 09:33 You would`ve made a great Labour candidate for the area đ Reply |
| 146. Author: Tenruh Date: Mon 10th Jun 2024. 13:29 [url]https://open.substack.com/pub/dearscotland/p/english-labour-isnt-the-change-scotland?r=hzhx5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email[/url] Reply |
| 147. Author: Tenruh Date: Wed 12th Jun 2024. 19:09 Sky news interviewing the wrong folk.... [url]https://www.facebook.com/share/v/DE6Le9BfVxjncSzy/[/url] Reply |
| 148. Author: DBA Date: Wed 12th Jun 2024. 20:52 Tenruh, Wed 12 Jun 19:09 Serious question...do you ever have anything to contribute that`s your own opinion and not a link to someone else`s? Reply |
| 149. Author: desparado Date: Wed 12th Jun 2024. 23:19 I saw that. Great answers from the folk interviewed. Obviously these folk were not hand picked like they are for the TV debatesâŠ. What an opportunity we missed in 2014. Reply |
| 150. Author: Tenruh Date: Thu 13th Jun 2024. 09:20 DBA, Wed 12 Jun 20:52 Mabees aye mabees naw Reply |
| 151. Author: Tenruh Date: Mon 17th Jun 2024. 09:27 Everything`s to be paid for to join the club....parachuted in or a membership selection ? [url]https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/scottish-politics/5006725/naz-anis-miah-dunfermline-snp-lobbying-nurses/[/url] Reply |
| 152. Author: jake89 Date: Mon 17th Jun 2024. 17:18 I posted this yesterday and it was suggested he wasn`t even successful. Can`t read that article because it`s the Courier. Reply |
| 153. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Tue 18th Jun 2024. 00:22 Here Jake, this is the text from the article. >The SNPâs Dunfermline and Dollar election candidate lobbied friends in the Scottish Government in a bid to gain NHS contracts for his recruitment firm, The Courier can reveal. Naz Anis-Miah â who lists himself as director of operations for recruitment consultants AGB Resourcing since 2018 on his LinkedIn profile â met Humza Yousaf during the former first ministerâs time as health secretary. He also dined with Fife SNP minister Shirley-Anne Somerville. On August 2, 2021, an associate claiming to represent AGB wrote to the government saying the business could tackle NHS staff shortages by supplying up to 40,000 nurses from abroad âimmediatelyâ. There is no evidence the company was successful in obtaining any contracts. In social media posts, he claims to have discussed AGB business with both politicians, with its company website boasting about its Holyrood and Westminster connections. AGB adds: âIf you are a formally registered recruitment agency and are interested in the current opportunities of recruiting to the UK, contact us to discuss our favourable business terms.â But Mr Anis-Miah never declared any of his meetings with senior party figures, nor did his firm log its request to the Scottish Government for NHS contracts. Neither the SNP councillor nor his business are signed up to the Scottish Parliamentâs official lobbying register. Exemptions to the rules do apply for companies with less than 10 employees. Official lobbying rules state this is not the case if a small firm is acting on behalf of another client or company. But the lack of any paper trail â including the absence of a Companies House page â leaves question marks over whether AGB Resourcing should be exempt. The revelations raise questions about transparency and the role of the private sector in delivering healthcare in Scotland. A Scottish Labour spokesperson said: âQuestions must be answered by Naz Anis-Miah, the SNP, and the Scottish Government about this history of lobbying which appears to have happened without following basic rules around transparency.â When Mr Anis-Miah and Mr Yousaf met, the future election candidate claimed it was to discuss how Scotlandâs âcare staffing crisisâ could be eased. And Mr Yousaf namechecked him in Holyrood last year when he was first minister, describing him as someone âwho I know wellâ. When AGB wrote to the Scottish Government requesting contracts, a meeting with Mr Yousaf was also requested. One paragraph in the letter reads: âWe can supply nurses who can start working straight away in a 3-month timescale (most agencies take 6 to 12 months) and help get the NHS ready coming out of this pandemic to meet all targets and offer the best services to the people of Scotland.â Post Edited (Tue 18 Jun 00:25) Reply |
| 154. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Tue 18th Jun 2024. 00:29 Continued.... Mr Anis-Miah and AGB finance director Craig McIvor had dinner with Ms Somerville â education secretary at the time â on August 19, 2021, just two weeks after AGB Resourcing wrote to the government. The company posted a photograph on social media saying they were meeting to âdiscuss business for Scotlandâ. An SNP spokesperson said: âLobbying rules are clear on what constitutes lobbying and what doesnât â and this does not. âMSPs meet with local small businesses on a daily basis, and as an SNP activist and local councillor, he knows Ms Somerville well. Through the work of Scots Asians for Independence, which Humza Yousaf has been involved with for 20 years, he has met almost every Scots Asian activist in the SNP â and that includes Naz, who will next month be the first male Scots Asian to be elected as an SNP MP.â AGB shares an address with a pro-independence shop named Yes in the City, in Dunfermline. Mr Anis-Miah was listed as a director for two companies also registered at this address. He resigned his directorship of Dunfermline Business Services on May 25 and stepped back from a separate firm called JHunkin Services in March. Both firms are listed as having no employees. Mr Anis-Miah states he has a stake in both on his Fife Council website page. Dunfermline and Dollar Labour candidate Graeme Downie said: âAnyone seeking the privilege to become the next MP for Dunfermline and Dollar shouldnât be hiding from basic questions of accountability.â Mr Anis-Miah was selected to contest Dunfermline and Dollar after the previous SNP candidate, Brian Goodall, stepped back. He is hoping to replace outgoing nationalist MP Douglas Chapman, who quit ahead of the election after claims of a plot to oust him. And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 155. Author: Tenruh Date: Tue 18th Jun 2024. 06:41 Cannot understand why anyone would try to oust Mr Chapman.....could of course be a group of senior officials unhappy he as Party Treasurer requested to see the books. Personal gain put before their members` interest ? Post Edited (Tue 18 Jun 13:03) Reply |
| 156. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Tue 18th Jun 2024. 10:01 Why shouldn`t he be ousted, isn`t he just another `trougher` who has done nothing to push for independence? And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 157. Author: jake89 Date: Tue 18th Jun 2024. 10:36 Thanks TOWK. Surely is Douglas was that unhappy in the SNP he would have quit and maybe jumped to Alba? Reply |
| 158. Author: Parboiled Date: Tue 18th Jun 2024. 12:58 Heâs a two faced jerk who wants the Royal Nayy out of Scotland but has the frigging nerve to welcome the new frigate orders for Rosyth and the jobs ( secure in the UK) that go with it. Heâs notoriously bone idle as well. Reply |
| 159. Author: desparado Date: Tue 18th Jun 2024. 15:19 Topic Originator: Parboiled Date: Tue 18 Jun 12:58 Heâs a two faced jerk who wants the Royal Nayy out of Scotland but has the frigging nerve to welcome the new frigate orders for Rosyth and the jobs ( secure in the UK) that go with it. Heâs notoriously bone idle as well. Are we talking Thomas Docherty- your mate- and Rachel Squire levels of Bone idleness ? Difficult to believe that. That pair would take some beating⊠What an opportunity we missed in 2014. Reply |
| 160. Author: red-star-par Date: Tue 18th Jun 2024. 19:19 Thomas Docherty must have been our laziest ever representative. The only thing I can remember him being involved in was some kind of drinks bust up in the Commons bar Reply |