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Big news from us today.
We're launching a crowdfunder - https://www.commonweal.scot/crowdfunder
To win independence we need to persuade more voters. Research shows conclusively that one of the biggest barriers for those voters is that they don't think we have a properly worked-out plan for what happens if they vote YES. We do not have this prospectus – and we need it. With your help, we can build it.
Read more and donate at the link above.
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Bizarre statement by #AnasSarwar! 🙄
It's about his decision to eff to London, to a seat in the unelected #HouseOfLords. He will also be a minister for trade, but as a Minster Of State, he will have no power. The prize here is the Lords seat for life
At the end, he refers to his successor, in a context that can only refer to the party leadership. But he never actually says that he is resigning as leader of #ScottishLabour. Is he still leader?
#scotpol#ukpol
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A tough 5 years for Scotland's silliest clown show. Traditionally, every other year the leader of #ScottishLabour would be humiliatingly defenestrated, and replaced with someone even less competent.
#AnasSarwar cheated by staying for 5 years, almost a million times the average tenure. The comedy cane from losing elections with increasing severity.
Now he restores the humiliation by crawling to the #HouseOfLords.
#SLAB Leader #11 due soon. Don't blink, or you'll miss them 😅🤣
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Right, I've put a spreadsheet of #Holyrood election data up here that I've reverse engineered from Wikipedia data. It's not perfect but at least it does give numbers to do some analysis from. Feel free to use it in any way you like; but if anyone has a better spreadsheet, I would be really grateful.
https://www.journeyman.cc/~simon/tmp/holyrood_election_2026_wikipedia.ods
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#AndrewTickell is an exquisitely subtle, precise writer on Scottish politics. His elegant, wistful style reminds me of the #TheObserver's late columnist Alan Watkins, but without Watkins's pretentiousness.
So when facing the political carcass of #AnasSarwar, Tickell doesn't put the boot in. Instead, he takes ornate surgical knives, and dissects #Sarwar with cold precision. Delicious, and much more satisfying than a boot.
Tickell's column in #TheNational https://archive.is/9p9xh
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Well that's the news I've been waiting for. @lornaslater has taken Edinburgh Central for @ScottishGreens. I'm very pleased; she's the only genuinely inspirational member of #Holyrood in this generation, in my opinion.
Hopefully a future #FirstMinister.
Also, although Angus Robertson would make a fine ambassador for Scotland, we do not need yet another machine politician.
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This wouldn’t be the worst outcome given some of the alternatives. #scotpol #elections #scotland #holyrood
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#YouGov's final MRP of the 2026 #Holyrood election shows the #SNP falling short of a majority, but on course for a fifth term in office. #ScottishGreens are surging, but #SLAB #ScottishLabour is in deep trouble.
SNP: 62 seats (-5 from 23 Mar-8 Apr)
Ref: 19 (-1)
Lab: 17 (+2)
Grn: 16 (+5)
LD: 8 (-1)
Con: 7 (=)images from https://x.com/YouGov/status/2051966019405521162
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There's Martyn Day, #SNP, here, saying we need more members in #Holyrood . But actually, the overwhelming majority of policy is local, and what isn't local, until we win #ScottishIndependence, is mostly reserved to #Westminster. All Holyrood needs to do is reform local government, and then campaign for independence.
Scottish Independence Podcasts: Countdown to Holyrood: Martyn Day
Episode webpage: https://yescowal.podbean.com/e/countdown-to-holyrood-martyn-day/
Media file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/qxkx6a25ysstr95m/countdown_to_holyrood_martyn_podcast_edita6gee.mp3
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What on earth happened yesterday in #ScottishLabour?
Did #AnasSarwar really go solo, calling for #Starmer's resignation without support nailed down?
Or did he have supporters who ratted once the #Starmtroopers turned up the heat?
I haven't seem any decent reporting of the #Sarwar plan. Lots on the aftermath, but no inside info on the plan.
Has anyone seen any credible reports on what was intended?
I don't rate #Sarwar, but this seems unexpectedly daft even fir him.
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I'm pleased by yesterday's developments in the Downing Street dramas.
#Starmer has bought some space to allow weeks or even months of the #mortoregnum. #Popcorn moments continue, which is of course the primary purpose of the #Westminster shitshow. 😈
Now #Starmer's inevitable demise cannot be attributed to #AnasSarwar. #SLAB's planned moment of relevance for #Sarwar played out as just a puff of smoke. London massively subsidises the branch office, and it will make Sarwar pay.
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A few of us were interviewed in this article about pressing issues in Scottish Justice that new Cabinet Secretary for Justice Angela Constance and First Minister Humza Yousaf will need to focus on.
Article by Rebecca McQuillan in @holyrooddaily
#CriminalJustice #Criminology #Law #YouthWork #Policing #Victims #Courts #CommunityJustice #SocialWork #SocialJustice #ScotPol #Politics #Holyrood #Scotland
https://www.holyrood.com/inside-politics/view,justice-on-trial-the-challenges-facing-scotlands-courts-prisons-and-police -
Interview with Gary Younge - from @NeilMackay’s Big Read series in The Herald - which touches on Scotland’s racism and imperialism (yes, ours/possessive) informed by his time at university in Scotland but also much wider thoughts on race/racism, empire/imperialism, England/UK, Brexit, the media etc etc:
#ScotPol #UKPolitics #Racism #Empire #Imperialism #GaryYounge
