Blair McDougall MP
Labour Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire. Member of Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Chair of Hong Kong & Uyghur APPGs. Sanctioned by Putin for being rude to him. Contact me at blair.mcdougall.mp@parliament.uk linktr.ee/blairmcdougall
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- Reposted by Blair McDougall MP#BREAKING Georgian police fire tear gas as protesters try to enter presidential palace
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPCouldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPTimeline cleanse
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPActually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
- Brilliant news for local shipbuilding jobs. 1/2
- Norway has chosen the United Kingdom as its strategic partner for the acquisition of new frigates, selecting the British-built Type 26 in what Oslo says will be its largest ever defence investment. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norway-picks...
- Side note: when the SNP were asked what their plan was for our yards when we gave up Royal Navy contracts, their response was that we’d be like Norway
- The UK is becoming a dumping ground for slave labour goods in between tougher protections in place in the US and EU markets. This story should accelerate action to beef up our anti-slavery laws. inews.co.uk/news/uk-800m...
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPFarage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought Nazi Germany
- Despots who don’t have to worry about term limits or public opinion can play for time and manipulate our open societies. They will only respect and be influenced by strength. Long past time for the US to stop playing Putin’s game.
- Anyone know what this crest on a building in my patch signifies?
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPWho is Jimmy Lai? 'Prisoner of conscience' who has endured 1,600 days behind bars
- Thinking of the buckets of abuse tipped over us a decade ago for saying the SNP's prospectus for leaving the UK was threadbare only for Nicola Sturgeon to now admit she thought it was too. Extraordinary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYeO...
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- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPGood to see @blairmcdougall.com introducing a 10 minute bill to remove crown immunity from SPS. Our office has been calling on UK and Scottish govts to progress this since 2022. Statements here: shorturl.at/TaPWJ shorturl.at/z5SeO
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPBREAKING Russia launched some 400 drones, 18 missiles in overnight attack, says Zelensky
- I left X months ago. At some point, surely, a threshold is passed where it is no longer appropriate for Governments to continue to have a presence on that platform. If its AI going full-on Nazi is not that threshold, what is? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
- Have tabled questions to the government on this.
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPMy letter to Glasgow City Council's SNP leader with @martinmccluskey.bsky.social @blairmcdougall.com @alisonstaylormp.bsky.social & Johanna Baxter MP. As representatives of Glasgow's neighbouring constituencies, we are appalled at the suggestion our constituents should pay a Clyde Tunnel Toll Tax.
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPOur Patron @blairmcdougall.com called on the 🇬🇧 government to keep its promise to the people of #HongKong and maintain the 5+1 #BNO pathway.
- I met Badri just a few days ago in London. Georgia Dream is now engaged in an all out war against democracy in Georgia. I'm pleased the UK Government summoned the ambassador over this but I'll be calling for more action against the regime in Parliament . civil.ge/archives/688...
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPBig news for my Rare Cancers Bill! - Yesterday, it took a major step forward as the UK Government confirmed the funding needed for it to progress. This clears the way for the Bill to move to the committee stage—where it will be examined line by line—and, hopefully, to a 3rd Reading on 11 July! >>
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPHospices UK: “You can’t but note a moral question mark over the assumption we all make — until we hear otherwise — that an assisted dying service will be fully state funded, whereas currently the palliative care provided by hospices is currently only 30 per cent state funded”
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPYesterday, we launched our latest business and human rights report in 🇬🇧 Parliament, featuring our Patron @blairmcdougall.com, @carmenlau.bsky.social, Lara Strangways, and our Senior Research and Policy Advisor Thomas Benson. www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
- Deeply troubling
- Very strong intervention by the Royal College of Psychiatrists on eve of the final vote on assisted dying. www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...
- I called out the Iranian regime’s hypocrisy on international law today. They’re sending thousands of drones to Putin’s war against UkrIne and plotting against jewish communities and dissidents in the UK while demanding the protection of an international rules based order. youtu.be/gTl8wCRMZl8?...
- Here’s Swinney’s “austerity” in graph below. The big divide in modern politics is between those who are interested in the hard work of fixing real problems & those who want to create an unreality to disguise their true intentions. Swinney is choosing the path of bullshit here.
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPWe are launching our latest business and human rights report in 🇬🇧 Parliament, featuring our Patron @blairmcdougall.com, @carmenlau.bsky.social, Lara Strangways, and our Senior Research and Policy Advisor Thomas Benson. Join us here: forms.gle/5BFpqrkFhtdY...
- This is a must read by the brilliant @natalie-fleet-mp.bsky.social www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/nata...
- This is an important read on a huge byelection result. Swinney was relying on a distracting fight between reform and the SNP to avoid an election judgement on his appalling record. He’s now naked and open to scrutiny at next year’s election. www.holyrood.com/comment/view...
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- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPPrime Minister Keir Starmer has criticised the SNP’s opposition to Trident, labelling it the “single most important part” of the UK’s defence capability. www.holyrood.com/news/view,ke...
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPIt would be helpful for Reform to warn donors that, if you (for example) buy some bitcoin for £2k, and its worth £4k when you donate it, then you’re taxed on a £2k capital gain.
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPDemonstrably untrue comments and absurd nonsense on crypto. I’ve grave concerns about any party’s ability to accept such donations and adhere to electoral law. Key question; why do this? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- I wouldn’t encourage comparisons of my approach to cryptocurrency to that of Trump if I was Farage. Trump’s crypto grift has opened the door to unimaginable levels of corruption. Farage might want US style politics over here, most of us shudder at the thought.
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPA good explanation of full fiscal autonomy, which is much needed given @johnswinney.bsky.social's apparent insistence on pursuing the policy even though none of his ministers - including his finance minister! - seems to understand what it would mean. Worse, they seem not to want to understand!
- I've spoken out against the listing of Shein on the London Stock Exchange in Parliament, so I'm pleased to see them head elsewhere. Congratulations to Uyghur campaigners and anti-slavery activists who wouldn't let this one go. www.reuters.com/business/fin...
- Lads, its better that this stuff stays between you and your internet service providers.
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPthis is very awkward for Kemi Badenoch
- How to react to Reform. Try not to react but if we must, go unashamedly for their weaknesses. blairmail.substack.com/p/connection...
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPTomorrow the 200th Neilston Agricultural Show will take place- a truly remarkable milestone for a cherished community event. I am looking forward to attending with @blairmcdougall.com who, like me, published a motion to commemorate the bicentenary. Read my motion below 👇
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MP🧵Reform UK is trying to convince voters ahead of the local elections that it is now “professional”. Farage has condemned union members who, he said, were “telling kids that Reform is a racist party”. So we looked into some of Reform's candidates and here's what we found 👇
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPOne lesson for UK conservatives from the Canadian election may well be the serious risk of looking like a pro-Trump party.
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPDay 150 of #GeorgiaProtests, And the first time that a grassroots march demands the outright resignation of the illegitimate regime as opposed to new elections. The location is also not Rustaveli, unnerving the regime and introducing more dynamism. "Leave!" 📷 NEWS. On. ge
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPThis week I took an opportunity to pay tribute to the late Pope Francis. In a debate about the current international situation, it felt only right to talk about the leadership and compassion he showed in times of trial and conflict.
- Any American capitulation to Putin won’t stop Ukraine fighting for their liberty. All it will do is create many more scenes like this, as US supplied air defence cannot be easily or quickly replaced.
- A sleepless and terrible night in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities after Russia carried out a massive drone and ballistic missile attack. Nine people killed, more than 70 injured, buildings hit and on fire, two kids buried under the rubble and now searched for ... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MP“It’s a compliment to be targeted by a thuggish criminal regime" — @blairmcdougall.com "I'll wear this retaliatory sanction as a badge of honour — as will my Lib Dem colleagues also placed on Moscow’s blacklist" — @helenmaguiremp.bsky.social MPs say they aren't intimidated by Russian sanctions
- Am told I have just been sanctioned by Vladamir Putin for my support for Ukraine and my “outright rudeness.” Proud to be targeted by this thuggish, criminal regime.
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPThank you to our Patron @blairmcdougall.com for calling on the Foreign Secretary to meet #BNO visa holders affected by HSBC’s withholding of #MPF savings. We urge the Foreign Secretary to heed this call and work to release these funds for Hong Kongers in 🇬🇧 www.dailymail.co.uk/money/market...
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPBritish Steel to end consultation on up to 2,700 redundancies after government intervention
- My thoughts today are with all my Catholic constituents - and everyone who admired Pope Francis as a voice for tolerance, peace and justice. May he rest in peace.
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPSORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
- The SNP, as ever, are about telling a story rather than rolling up their sleeves and changing things. Flynn exposed here as a cynical ambulance chaser.
- EXC: Stephen Flynn has been accused of overruling John Swinney on Grangemouth. Energy minister Michael Shanks says if First Minister really believed in nationalisation, he would have mentioned it in any of the almost weekly meetings with UK Government www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
- A movie that takes place where you’re from.* *Rob Roy (1911). Arguably the first ever Scottish movie, was made at a small studio in what is now Rouken Glen Park in Thornliebank.
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPUK announces £120m aid package for Sudan - as Lammy warns 'much of the world continues to look away'
- Yesterday was about saving jobs. It was also a moment that commanded the nation's attention. Some thoughts from me on the importance of such moments of drama in modern political communication. blairmail.substack.com/p/attention-...
- Utterly outrageous. I hope the reaction to this is similarly robust to when the Israeli authorities detained Labour MPs a few days ago.
- Unexpected day in Commons in first Saturd sitting in decades - but what a difference to have a government that intervenes to save jobs, after watching the Tories and SNP sit on their hands for so many years.
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPPolling on Quebec independence is now 2:1 against, reflecting a boost for Canadian identity from the US threat to Canada. (Independence lost 50.5% to 49.5% in 1995, and 60-40 in 1980) 338canada.com/quebec/polls...
- Proud to stand alongside @yuanfenyang.bsky.social and Abtisam Mohamed today.
- Glad some of Badenoch’s front bench beginning to distance themselves from her position on the detention of MPs.
- For sale: mouse bait, never used.
- In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommmunity #writing #prompt
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPLabour has invested £26bn in our NHS and reduced waiting lists every month for the past five months. The Tories want the investment, but don’t know how to pay for it. And Reform wants you to pay for your healthcare. Reform and the Tories are all the same.
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPLabour's @blairmcdougall.com said: "When you go to get your frozen fish fingers you’re trying to fuel your kids, not to fuel Putin’s war against Ukraine. "I think people would be horrified to think that their weekly shop would be indirectly hurting the people of Ukraine.”
- Major UK supermarkets and food companies like Iceland & Birds Eye are selling products containing Russian fish despite concerns the trade indirectly helps bolster the Kremlin’s war machine against Ukraine inews.co.uk/news/iceland... @theipaper.com exclusive by @cahalmilmo.bsky.social
- It’s a gorgeous day in East Ren
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPHonoured and proud to receive a letter from the House of Commons celebrating our successful P6b newspaper enterprise. Thank you! Read all about it in our next edition next term! @blairmcdougall.com
- I agree.
- Head of Scottish prisons says service should not be immune from prosecution Read and watch @kathrync4.bsky.social 's report:
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPDinosaur tracks uncovered at site of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s refuge
- Inflation is down but shrinkflation is still with us. Today I’ll table a bill on shrinkflation labelling, inspired by the double whammy of smaller Easter eggs and higher prices that consumers are facing this year. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...
- Reposted by Blair McDougall MPExclusive: Scottish Labour MP @blairmcdougall.com is fighting to stop Easter eggs from getting smaller and more expensive with a House of Commons bill.
- Utter clowns.
- "I think you know what you should do." Today at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee session I asked President Zourabichvili about the propaganda TV station behind Georgia's democratic back-sliding which is based out of London. youtu.be/cydBEvv2pTo
- The untold British connection to the violence against peaceful democratic protesters in Georgia... I exposed new information on those linked to the crackdown in Parliament earlier. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkWC...
