
Brian Monteith
@thebluetrot
Telegraph & Scotsman writin' Cigar smoking' Jaguar drivin' Vino quaffin' Hibees followin' Zeppelin lovin' Wagner goin' free-marketin' Ex MEP 2019-20 & MSP 99-07
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http://www.ThinkScotland.org 28-06-2012 11:12:13
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This is Inbar Heiman. She could easily be at Glastonbury Festival right now. But she was at Nova when monsters came and chased her down on motorbikes, murdered and dragged her to Gaza. She’s STILL there. Today those who support her killers are welcomed to applause. The world is MAD.





Another week, another headache with the Irish Sea border - this time it's tobacco "The UK government must either tear up the Windsor Framework so the UK can decide its own laws – or withdraw the Tobacco & Vape Bill" My take on the WF mess for Belfast News Letter bit.ly/4lzmHbE




How Keir Starmer’s biggest mistakes revived the SNP from the dead "The truth for Labour is his sidekicks are no better, it is the likes of Reeves, Miliband, Rayner, Streeting and Lammy who've sold him hospital pass policies." My latest The Scotsman column bit.ly/4nqrVrO

Palm Oil saves forests "It may be hard to swallow for virtue signallers, but anyone wanting to protect the rainforest should be looking at ingredients and rejecting other oils in preference to palm oil" My latest for Country Squire UK might surprise some. bit.ly/45zI0oE

Brian Monteith, aka Brian Monteith describes Keir Starmer as the 'political defibrillator' that kept the SNP alive.


Just one more volte-face, Rachel, and it could be crisis averted "If Rachel Reeves wants to achieve higher tax revenues, she must cut Capital Gains Tax, not raise taxes even more." My latest for The Telegraph is about improving productivity The Productivity Institute bit.ly/3TR8ScC



My pitch at Institute of Economic Affairs yesterday… - UKTobacco & Vapes Bill is useless policy, I can’t believe anyone is backing it. - Tobacco Free Generation is a nothing-burger. Solves a problem solved by vapes, pouches well before anyone born after 2009 gets sick from smoking; - No effect on