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Olaf Stando
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Special Adviser to the First Minister of Scotland @JohnSwinney | Internationalist | Independence campaigner | Rail fan | Hillwalker
Fife, Scotland
Born October 1
Joined January 2012
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    Olaf Stando
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    Jun 20, 2024
    This is what leadership looks like. @JohnSwinney in front of an English audience, calmly explaining why Scotland must have the choice over its own future - and why it’s wrong for Westminster parties to deny it. It’s common sense - met with applause by the York audience. #bbcqt
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    Olaf Stando
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    Nov 21, 2023
    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 BREAKING: The Scottish Parliament overwhelmingly votes to call for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza. YES: 90 NO: 28 All parties, apart from the Scottish Tories, back a ceasefire.
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    Olaf Stando
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    Sep 9, 2021
    Douglas Ross is about to vote against vaccine passports in Scotland. Even though the same Douglas Ross backs vaccine passports in England, proposed by Westminster.
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    Olaf Stando
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    Nov 1, 2023
    BBC’s Jo Coburn: “The Jewish community, maybe as a whole, feels very intimidated by this crowd chanting ‘ceasefire’” She refers to a sit-in at Liverpool St station, calling for a ceasefire. What she fails to mention is that it was co-organised by Jewish groups. #politicslive
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    Olaf Stando
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    Aug 11, 2022
    Loudest cheers at the Tory hustings so far are for the Rwanda policy and scrapping human rights legislation. Tells you all you need to know.
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    Olaf Stando
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    Feb 5, 2022
    The world’s 10 richest men have *doubled* their wealth over a year. These 10 men are now so rich, that even if they lost 99.999% of their wealth, they’d still have more than 99% of people on the whole planet. Tax the billionaires, not ordinary working people.
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    Olaf Stando
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    Mar 4, 2021
    📣 @NicolaSturgeon spent over 8 hours answering every question of the Committee with empathy, integrity and honesty. Meanwhile, Ruth Davidson repeats the same questions and shows this is all a petty political game for the Tories. The Tory mask, again, has slipped. #FMQs
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    Olaf Stando
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    Feb 25, 2021
    🤷‍♂️ Baroness Ruth Davidson, who got herself a life-long, well-paid, unelected place in the House of Lords (and did not rule out accepting a UK government role), trying to lecture about what democracy means. @NicolaSturgeon absolutely skewered that hypocrisy at #FMQs. 👇
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    Olaf Stando
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    Nov 23, 2022
    Is the UK still a “voluntary union” if Scotland, one of the supposedly “equal partners” in the union, is denied a referendum which people in Scotland overwhelmingly voted for?
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    Olaf Stando
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    Jul 1, 2020
    📺 WATCH: @NicolaSturgeon expertly dismantles Boris Johnson's absurd #PMQs claim that "there's no border between Scotland and England".
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    Olaf Stando
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    Jun 28, 2024
    People make Glasgow.
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    Olaf Stando
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    May 8, 2021
    Tory logic: 43.6% 👉 Stonking mandate for Brexit 47% 👉 SNP barely holding on, nobody wants #indyref2
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    Olaf Stando
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    May 7, 2021
    👏 @NicolaSturgeon: "The far-right thug who lead the confrontation got 46 votes - and I'm proud that once again, Glasgow Southside has shown the racists and fascists that they're not welcome in Glasgow, or anywhere in Scotland. Let that be the note of unity." #FascistsOut
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    Olaf Stando
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    Jun 30, 2022
    🔥 This audience member on #bbcqt absolutely nails it. "We don't run a country based on opinion polls", but on elections. The Tories haven't won in Scotland since 1955, and pro-independence parties won an overwhelming mandate for #indyref2. That's basic democracy.
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