🔥 Even Labour insiders admit Downing Street treats Scotland as an afterthought. 🔍 Starmer’s team keep landing blows on their own leader while ignoring what matters here. 👉 The SNP will always put Scotland first — Labour never will.
Graeme Dey MSP
@graemedey.bsky.social
SNP MSP for Angus South. Promoted by G. Dey, 282 High St, DD11 1JF
✂️ Anas refuses to lobby party colleagues down south not to raise income tax and slash Scotland's budget by over £1bn. 🥀 While the SNP stand up for Scotland, Sarwar nods along with Westminster.
🥀 Labour promised to Make Brexit Work — now they admit it’s made Britain poorer. 💷 Reeves is planning tax hikes and spending cuts to fill the Brexit black hole. 💛 Scotland shouldn’t pay the price for Westminster’s mess — we need independence.
You may have seen false Tory claims that MSPs “voted against a grooming gangs inquiry”. There's twisting truth, & then there's dragging politics into the gutter. Using “grooming gangs” as a dog-whistle & child abuse as a political football crosses a line.
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Politics is a dirty business. But there are some lines which should never be crossed. Weaponising child abuse is one
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👂 Will he listen? ✂️ Will he follow the SNP’s lead and scrap the cruel two-child cap? 🥀 Or will Labour leave a generation of kids trapped in poverty?
📊 A new poll shows Scotland would choose independence if asked tomorrow. 🚨 Westminster’s chaos is pushing more people towards Yes. 📈 The momentum for a fairer, independent Scotland is growing stronger every day.
📑 Tackling the housing emergency is at the heart of the SNP government's priorities of fairness & poverty reduction. 🏘️ The measures announced in this Plan are good for vulnerable families, for first time buyers, for the economy, and Angus will feel the benefit:
Housing Emergency Action Plan
Supporting the Vulnerable & Boosting Investment Cabinet Secretary for Housing Màiri McAllan has published the Housing Emergency Action Plan to
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📜 @johnswinney.bsky.social: “It's an essential requirement to ensure that Scotland becomes independent. I'm not interested in just arguing about independence. I want to deliver independence.” 👉 Read more: thenational.scot/news/2538191...
🎓 A record number of teens from Scotland’s most deprived areas have secured a university place. 📈 Overall university acceptances for young Scots are at an all-time high – up 4%. 💪 Free tuition, fair access, and record results. That’s the SNP delivering for young people.
💷 University tuition fees in England & Wales (as of today): £9,535 🎓 Tuition fees in Scotland: £0 ✅ That’s the difference the SNP makes.
📚 More young people from Scotland’s poorest communities are getting into University than ever before — thanks to action on widening access. 🎓 Talent, not your postcode, should shape your future — and we’re making that a reality. 👉 Read more: graemedey.info/graeme-welco...
💷 We have supported Corseford College with £1.4 million of additional funding. 💛 This will enable the college to provide 41 young people with specialist support in the coming academic year. 👉 More: graemedey.info/corseford-college-future-secured-until-2027
❌ Starmer's first year: Cuts, betrayal, silence. Scotland deserves better.
🤥 Anas Sarwar promised to "stand up to Keir Starmer". 🔍 At every turn, he falls into line behind his bosses in London. 🥀 A follower, not a leader - he just can't stand up for Scotland.
⏬ While Anas Sarwar backs Starmer's cuts to disability support, the SNP is protecting people with disabilities in Scotland. 🥀 Sarwar is too weak to stand up to his boss - even when 150,000 disabled people are about to be plunged into poverty.
🚨 A majority of Scots support independence. ✅ According to the latest Ipsos poll, 52% would vote Yes for independence. 🗳️ A better future is possible - but we have to vote for it.
🥀 After a year in office, Keir Starmer's approval is at an all-time low in Scotland. ⏬ With Labour's litany of broken promises, it's no wonder people have lost faith in the Westminster system. 🏴 Scotland can do better than Labour failure - with independence.
🚨 Anas Sarwar backs £5 BILLION in disability cuts - even as 1 in 3 Scottish Labour MPs rebel. 🥀 Labour’s “reform” means slashing support for disabled people who can’t work. 💛 In Scotland, the SNP are delivering social security with dignity, fairness and respect.
✅ We are acting to lift people out of poverty. 📅 From March next year, we will scrap Labour's two-child benefit cap - lifting 20,000 children out of poverty. 💛 The SNP is delivering progress for Scotland.
❌ Westminster has failed Scotland for too long. 💛 It's time to chart our own course and improve lives across our country. 🏴 We have the resources and the talent to be a successful independent nation - so let's build a more prosperous Scotland together.
🔍 93% of Scottish school leavers went on to positive destinations in 2023/24. 📈 That's an increase on the previous year, and shows the impact of the SNP's investment in education. 👉 More: graemedey.info/rise-in-scho...
🌱 Every child deserves the chance to thrive, but Westminster’s cruel two-child cap drags families into poverty. ✅ So Scotland is stepping up - from March, the SNP Government will scrap its impact - lifting 20,000 children out of hardship. 👉 Read more: graemedey.info/scrapping-tw...
📢 Scotland leads the UK for inward investment outside London — for the 10th year running. 🌍 Despite Westminster chaos, global companies are choosing Scotland’s skills. 💛 Under the SNP, we’re delivering jobs, investment and a future built in Scotland. 👉 Read more: graemedey.info/inward-inves...
💷 Unlike in England, every Scottish pensioner will receive winter fuel support. ⏬ We are stepping up where Westminster has failed. 👉 More: graemedey.info/universal-winter-fuel-payments/
📆 A reminder of the constituency surgeries I'm holding tomorrow, Friday 13th June, in Inverarity, Westmuir and Carnoustie. See details below 👇
📆 I am holding constituency surgeries next Friday 13th June in Inverarity, Westmuir and Carnoustie. See details below👇
🌱 Angus Climate Hub will benefit from a share of £6m Scottish Government funding. ♻️ The national network of Hubs supports locally-specific climate action, from flood mitigation to energy generation and food growing. Great projects are supported across Angus. graemedey.info/funding-for-...
Funding for Angus Climate Action Hub - Graeme Dey
Improving Lives Through Local Action Community projects across Scotland aimed at improving lives through local climate action are set to benefit from a share of £6 million Scottish Government…
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💷 Around 90,000 carers are set to receive Carer’s Allowance Supplement in June – an additional twice yearly payment only available in Scotland. 🫂 It recognises the important contribution of unpaid carers. No need to apply - payment is automatic to all eligible. graemedey.info/summer-payme...
Summer Payment to 90,000 Carers - Graeme Dey
Carer’s Allowance Supplement to be Paid in June Around 90,000 carers are set to receive Carer’s Allowance Supplement this June – an additional payment of £293.50. The payment is extra money for…
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🔍 Your @theSNP Government is spending over £1.1 million in Angus to mitigate bad Labour policies. 💷 Across Scotland that figure is over £90 million to combat policies like the Bedroom Tax. 👉 More: graemedey.info/90m-spent-mi...
🔍 New figures show that the Scottish Child Payment is keeping over 6,500 children out of poverty here in Angus. 📉 While Westminster makes decisions which drive up poverty, under the SNP child poverty is falling in Scotland.