A rant. There’s a misunderstanding about just how short the government’s Defence Investment Plan will fall, when we do finally see it. Sadly, it’s so much worse than the general conception.
It’s not just the gap between the £28billon that the chiefs asked for and the £13.5bn
Douglas Ross
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Former Scottish Conservative Leader, MP for Moray and MSP for the Highlands & Islands
- Douglas Ross repostedWhen Holyrood was established as a unicameral system it placed extra weight on the role of committees in legislation and in scrutiny of the executive. This is where the hard work should be done. Do MSPs and the parties in Holyrood see it that way, though?Replying to @andywightmanWell apart from one committee, all nominees are uncontested. So it looks like each party appointed their chosen nominee and said to another - "you second our candidate and we will second yours" Committees are a vitally important part of Parliament and its hugely disappointing
- Douglas Ross repostedShameful stuff from the SNP's Climate Action Minister. Still refusing to back new North Sea oil and gas. On 18th June, vote for Douglas Lumsden in Aberdeen South to back our oil and gas industry and tell Labour and the SNP to Get Britain Drilling.
- Douglas Ross repostedA vote for the Conservatives is a vote telling the SNP and Labour that their war on domestic oil and gas must end. There’s only one candidate who can beat the SNP in Aberdeen South, and that’s @DLumsden_MSP .
- Douglas Ross repostedOnly one Leader, only one Party, is fighting for Aberdeen. Kemi Badenoch and the Conservative and Unionist Party 💪🇬🇧🏴
- Douglas Ross repostedGreat to have Kemi Badenoch and @RussellFindlay1 in Aberdeen to visit Oil States. On June 18, vote Douglas Lumsden to beat the SNP and stand up for energy workers.
- Douglas Ross repostedOver 41,000 people are employed in the Scotch Whisky industry in Scotland 💼 We need governments to back an industry that delivers investment, jobs and global success. Find out how #ScotchWhisky is supporting Scotland's communities 👉 bit.ly/41p5A43
- Douglas Ross reposted‘Don’t denigrate my personal integrity,’ says man who hired an embezzler
- Douglas Ross repostedI have lodged a motion highlighting the SNP’s decision to abandon its 2021 commitment to fully dual the A96 by 2030. Moray and the North of Scotland need certainty for investment, jobs and growth. It’s time for clear timelines and a plan to finally deliver this vital upgrade.
- Douglas Ross reposted🚨1/ We already have loads of photos of Sturgeon with Murrell swag, but I’ve found a new kind of gaiety: tweets in which Sturgeon photographs and delights in expensive new household purchases, paid for with SNP money.🧵
- I questioned these answers at the time-now it seems others did too. Following this Committee session officials at Qualifications Scotland drafted a letter to me as Convener to apologise and correct matters. It was never sent after the ‘Director of Strategy’ blocked its release.
00:00Did a senior officials at Scotland's only exam board mislead a Holyrood committee? An FOI shows staff were so concerned they drafted a letter of apology...but it was never sent. Find out what's going on @heraldscotland heraldscotland.com/news/26160035.… - Five key questions here from @RussellFindlay1 If John Swinney and the SNP have nothing to hide - why will they not be open and honest and provide the answers?FIVE of the big unanswered questions about Peter Murrell and the SNP 🚐
00:00 - Douglas Ross repostedHere's John Swinney on the BBC in 2021 saying there was no problem with the SNP finance's👇 His childhood friend Peter Murrell continued stealing from SNP members AFTER this date. Murrell knew he had the protection of Swinney. No wonder Swinney's running scared of an inquiry.“There’s a huge amount of scrutiny of party finances that go on. That happens day and daily within the SNP, and so it should.” John Swinney, speaking on 30th May 2021. Why should we trust anything that he says now?
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