SNP Councillor for Pollokshields Ward - email :[email protected] - phone:- 0141 - 287 - 4880 All views my own RTs not necessarily
Glasgow, Scotland
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Bailie Norman MacLeod retweeted
As an American Jew devoted to Judaism, I ask one thing:
Please stop calling Israel a “Jewish state.”
Call it a Zionist state.
Call it Herzl’s project.
Call it whatever you want but do not place the name of an entire religion on a political entity.
- Our Community Member
Bailie Norman MacLeod retweeted
The claim that the modern State of Israel is somehow the fulfillment of King David’s kingdom does not withstand basic historical or Torah-based scrutiny.
It is a political invention, not a religious continuation.
Bailie Norman MacLeod retweeted
FYI
🇬🇧The bbc have published ONLY 6 articles in relation to uk westminster’s shambolic ‘Ajax Armoured Car’ programme, squandering £6,300M
🏴The bbc have however published 55 (FIFTY-FIVE!) articles (and a ‘Documentary’) on the ‘SNP Bad’ Scottish Govs Ferries overspend (£250M)
Bailie Norman MacLeod retweeted
Alastair Campbell, "I will say to Zia Yusuf and his friend Nigel Farage"
"Brexit has taken 6-8% out of economy"
"If we had not left, the Chancellor today would have had £90 billion more to spend"
"He could have doubled the defence budget"
Fiona Bruce, "That is a projection Alastair, no one can be sure about that"
Alastair Campbell, "And added 50% to the health budget as well"
"The people who gave us Brexit now want to give you another set of false promises"
"Do not fall for them because they are a bunch of conmen. They're being found out. And its one reason why Nigel Farage will never be Prime Minister of this country"
My view:
Fiona Bruce was quick to dismiss Campbell’s figures as “a projection”. But that shouldn’t be a way to shut down the argument.
Campbell was making a point about what Brexit has cost the country: on his figures, a 6–8% hit to the economy means around £90 billion less for the Chancellor to spend—enough, he said, to double the defence budget or increase health spending by 50%.
And remember what Nigel Farage was saying in 2016: that even without a trade deal, Britain would be better off than it was then. The evidence points the other way.
The OBR estimates that Brexit will leave UK productivity around 4% lower than it would have been inside the EU; other studies put the economic hit higher. That means we’re poorer than we would have been had we stayed.
So yes, these are estimates—but the claims made by Brexit’s champions were projections too. Bruce’s caveat shouldn’t obscure the central question Campbell raised: how much has Brexit cost us, and what could that money have done for the country?
Arguably supported by USA, UK and others because they felt guilty for not stopping the Nazis as soon as they should have
How guilty should they now feel for not stopping Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians ?
Bailie Norman MacLeod retweeted
This seems like a great time to reshare my favourite Sir Patrick Stewart performance, ‘What has the ECHR ever done for us?’ It’s just perfect in every possible way … including the ending 😂😂😂 RIP.
🎥 The Guardian
Bailie Norman MacLeod retweeted
Israel has certainly become a country where Antiemitism is on the rise.
Zionists are constantly attacking Jews mercilessly.
See how a zionist official brutally attacked a jewish man.
Zionism is a new form of Antisemitism today.
If you are a Jew who is against Zionism and Israel in Israel, you may be beaten every day, harassed by Zionists, and constantly raided and insulted by the police.
Bailie Norman MacLeod retweeted
A new nuclear power station in England has been branded a "terrible deal" for taxpayers. Sizewell C was supposed to cost £20bn. It's now expected to cost between £40.5bn and £47.7bn, with construction finishing between 2039 and 2043.
Ferries anyone?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw0k…
Unbelievable arrogance
🇮🇱 Fmr. Israeli lawmaker says ISRAEL has the moral supremacy to judge the rest of the world...
Likud MK Moshe Feiglin was asked about Israel's collapsing international standing:
“You have to know that the real international supreme court, the moral international supreme court, is the people of Israel here in the biblical land.”
He invoked the Bible's promise that those who bless Israel will be blessed while those who curse it will be cursed.
“Are you going to be blessed or cursed? Are you with the children of God or not? It’s your problem, not mine.”
A DEEPLY supremacist worldview, in which Israelis hold the ultimate moral authority over everyone else.
Explains a lot.....
Writers: Marie, Michael
Bailie Norman MacLeod retweeted
Before Zionism, Jewish communities lived alongside their Arab neighbors in the Holy Land for centuries in peace.
That historical reality was erased when Zionist claim Jews and Arabs were always in conflict.
ALT Palestinians near Damascus Gate in the Old City, Jerusalem, in the 19th century.
Bailie Norman MacLeod retweeted
The Labour Party has just made our reality even worse - their plan will make Scots pay more for our gas.
Westminster and Treasury are making billions from Scotland’s gas while making our people pay more.
Time to put Scotland’s energy in Scotland’s hands.
Bailie Norman MacLeod retweeted
“Israel’s claim to be a ‘Jewish state’ is false
Israel is the state of Israelis, not of Jews
To assign Jews to a foreign country is itself antisemitic
That ideology is Zionism not Judaism”
— Abraham Silberstein
Bailie Norman MacLeod retweeted
Scotland is a world energy powerhouse , and if we controlled our energy resources , Scot’s would have some of the lowest electricity charges in the world #ScottishIndependence
Until and unless we become independent it will be the latter
🏴 Keith Brown: “Every single penny of revenue from our oil and gas industry should be invested in Scotland’s renewables future,”
“The one trillion pound question for the Labour UK Government is will they guarantee that or will we see our energy revenues pay for English nuclear power down south.” itv.com/news/2026-10-24/snp-…
Bailie Norman MacLeod retweeted
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Bailie Norman MacLeod retweeted
Britain and Norway discovered North Sea oil in 1969.
Norway created a fund and invested its petroleum revenues; today it’s worth about £1.7 trillion.
The UK created no equivalent fund—Treasury modelling suggests a Norway-style fund might now be worth around £1 trillion.
On the same gross-debt measure, UK debt is £3.18 trillion; Norway’s is about £273 billion.
Different choices, very different public balance sheets.
We have to do better as a nation 🙏
