🟡 SNP Councillor for Bothwell and Uddingston | Now on 🦋 as @ https://xitter.cf/t.co/ww4qe2V0Ki丨♂ He/Him | 🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Promoted by Cal Johnston-Dempsey at
SNP Group Office, County Buildings, Almada Street, Hamilton, ML3 0AA
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@CalMacFerries On your booking system, was originally going to sign up as myself but changed wife's name as she has a concession. Forgot to change gender/birth date.
Tried to update to female/her bday but any type of update (even not touching the date) results in this error.
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Thanks to Ggow Times for covering this, I'm proud to have written it with @EliseFrameSNP
Vapes can play a role in helping smokers quit but they are now the primary source for new nicotine addicts
Anything to keep these fruit flavour death batteries away from kids is worth a try
🎅 Make your way down to Uddy Cross for Grow Uddingston's Xmas Fayre. Raffle/Tombola. Free hot choc at the Church of the Nazarene
I bought a wreath, a choc orange highland coo, tablet & a Muiredge/SJB tote bag
Got something else but can't post in case my wife sees her gift 😂
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Scotland produces more electricity than we use, and we do it in the cheapest ways possible – renewables.
Yet the price of electricity is pegged to the most expensive way of producing it – burning gas.
Scotland could have free electricity at times if London changed this rule.
Electricity prices in the UK are tied to global gas prices, which makes electricity more expensive for consumers. I called on the Prime Minister to commit to reforming this to lower household bills. @theSNP
Proud to have brought this to SLC with Cllr Frame.
Vapes can play a big role in helping smokers quit, but they are now becoming the primary addiction drivers for new nicotine addicts.
Anything we can do to keep these fruit flavour death batteries away from kids is worth a shot.
💨 Retailers in SouthLan are selling vapes to kids
✅ An SNP group motion has secured:
• Further test purchasing
• Better promotion of public reporting options
✅ Also secured officer time to explore banning retailers from selling cigs/vapes & sanctioning their other licences
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Pleased to be seconding two of these motions.
Tomorrow, we will be proposing 6 motions to council:
❌ ACTION ON VAPES SALES TO CHILDREN
♻️ NEW WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
🌍 BAN ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL
💜 WASPI CAMPAIGN
⚽️ HAMILTON ACCIES 150th ANNIVERSARY
👥 16 DAYS AGAINST GBV
Watch live at 10am👇
youtube.com/live/OqG_1pslyjU…
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It was an honour to lay a wreath this year again at Uddingston War Memorial on behalf of the Council.
This year, I wore both a Poppy Scotland red poppy with the Black Watch regimental badge, and a Peace Pledge Union white poppy.
ALT Pictured (L to R): Cllr Cal Johnston-Dempsey (Councillor for Bothwell and Uddingston). Mary Hernon MBE DL (Deputy Lord Liutenant of Lanarkshire). Joyce Caldwell (Vice Chair of Uddingston Community Council). Standing in from of Uddingston War Memorial with wreaths laid.
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Taxi driver on the way to work this morning preached how Trump hates war and will end the invasions of Ukraine and Palestine.
Not true in the way he thinks and I didn't have the energy to argue.
My wife is picking me up from the office so I hope she doesn't spew the same patter.
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Crazy that England still has RTB. They should scrap it, not reduce the discount.
RTB is the primary reason so many 20-somethings are stuck living in their childhood bedrooms. Unable to afford private rents, they look to their local authority who no longer have the housing stock.
Chancellor "We will reduce right to buy discounts " - that's the discount on buying a council home.
#budget
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At PMQs, Keir Starmer just blamed the previous UK Tory government for funding problems in the Scottish NHS.
Now on to the Chancellor's budget statement. It begs the question, who will be to blame for Scot NHS funding if she doesn't announce more money for the Scottish budget?
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Elon's Twitter is really pushing Yaxley-Lennon's bile and disinformation.
I don't even have topic notifications turned on but this somehow came through as a post about "technology".
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I could never back something like this.
A 21yo married mother couldn't drive her husband & son to a family holiday or visit to their grandparents.
Being a young person in the UK is already a terrible experience. You get paid less & pay more to live. Let's not make it worse.
🚨 NEW: The AA has called on the government to ban young drivers carrying under-21s as passengers
[@BBCNews]
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I personally think the most pressing need is to make local gov actually local, some of our current councils are ridiculously massive.
There should be a layer of regional gov above that (basically, I'm arguing we go back to the Strathclyde Regional Council & district councils).
🗨️"Greater Glasgow, with a population of over 1.8 million people, needs a directly elected mayor with their own mandate to properly advance our region’s interests"
🗣️Paul Sweeney: 'Greater Glasgow needs a Metro Mayor'
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Other countries have devolved visa systems, there's no reason Scotland shouldn't be able to operate our own visas to meet our desperate rural work needs.
Does the envoy get a generous clothing allowance?
Sue Gray resigns as UK prime minister's chief of staff, and will take up new role as PM's envoy for nations and regions
bbc.in/3YcQrCc
Still waiting for a reply from @OctopusEnergy to an email I sent them on 25/09/2024.
I'm not able to just drop a few grand on a boiler, so I'm still without heating for the 18th day running.
When will they accept liability?
15th Sept an improperly installed smart meter owned by @OctopusEnergy left me with no power. Their electrician said it was their fault on 17th
Electrical problem damaged my boiler. I paid for Gas Safe engineer inspection 19th report sent to Octo
Octo still won't replace boiler
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