I see the 'Scottish' Daily Express is taking the Holyrood result with all the calm considered good grace you might expect. #Unhinged

One of the tasks of councillors is effective delivery of national policies & strategies at a local level, in e.g. education or social care, or any number of other policy areas. I really can't see Reform managing to do that. It's going to be chaos in those councils they control.

Independence MSP's 1999 - 36 2003 - 34 2007 - 49 2011 - 71 2016 - 69 2021 - 72 2026 - 73 SNP has won 5 Holyrood elections in a row, Labour had their worst ever election & Tories fell to 4th. Independence MSP's have been the majority since 2011. If that's not a mandate what is?

Despite the UK media telling us the SNP 'failed' to win a majority, the SNP won 58 seats, 2 more than the combined total 56 seats won by the 4 anti-indy parties. The Greens won 15 seats taking the pro-indy MSP total to 73, a record pro-indy result, a double mandate for this Scottish Parliament.

Wales & Scotland. UDI. NI. Reunification. All announced simultaneously, as one. Give England the true, unadulterated, Brexit independence it‘s been craving, in a oner. Everyone wins.

The final list result for the SNP is 625,949 list votes = 1 list seat. Don't ever try to tell us that 1&2 works ever again. And if you're at conference and you're asked to vote for an achievable bar or an almost impossible bar, you know what to do. Unless you're undercover for the British state.

Zelensky issued an official presidential decree authorizing Russia to hold its Victory Day parade in Moscow tomorrow. He included the exact coordinates of Red Square. That's it. A+ trolling.

Quite a striking & comprehensive dismissal of the notion that the UK is a cohesive entity. (Spoiler it's dead & it's just the burial still to arrange). You'll need to click the image to expand it & see, hopefully.

The Highland Council YouTube livestream of the vote count in Inverness is here. It has all the pace of watching my fridge defrost... www.youtube.com/live/V8yJMft...

It'll be interesting to see how Labour in WM react to losing Wales. Will they do the same as they did to Scotland when they lost it in 2007 & slashed the budget in fit of pique?

The media in the UK is a joke The SNP have won the election but they've actually lost the election because they never got the majority in a system specifically designed to stop the SNP getting a majority It's a fkn joke dude #DissolveTheUnion

The Highlands & Islands list region that we're waiting the results for stretches from Campbeltown to Shetland, that's absolutely insane.

😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡🇬🇧😡 Hey @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @skynewsrss.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @channel5news.bsky.social Any mention of this? Thought not #reformuk #nazis #localelections #antisemitism

"Sandesh Gulhane also lost his seat on the Glasgow list." Shouldn't laugh.

Dear Reform-voting ladies… Do you know you’re voting for a party that wants to: ❌ Scrap the Equality Act - your legal protection against workplace discrimination & unequal pay ❌ Kill the Online Safety Act - the law protecting you from revenge porn

Seeing as how the Greens are doing well. With the increasingly rapid move to EVs surely any previous objection they had to dualling the A9 & A96 are equally rapidly diminishing?

If Starmer does actually go, can Labour please replace him with someone who isn't owned by Israel. If they have anyone that is.

Heard Ponsonby say earlier that the SNP will have won with a bigger share of the vote than the Tories had when they had the EU referendum so if that was considered a mandate for Brexit how come today's result isn't considered a mandate for indyref2. #ScottishIndependence

BBC forecasting SNP biggest party in Scotland and Plaid Cymru biggest party in Wales. Add that to Sinn Fein biggest party in Stormont and the union is dead. Time to break it up. Today.

Don't be too joyous about Offord & his buddy Sarwar getting their arses kicked in the constituency vote, they'll slither in on the list.

By now, 12 years after the referendum, Scotland could have been a successfully independent country in the EU, trading & engaging with rest of the world on equal terms, and governed by a coalition of new and old parties focussed on Scotland's welfare and future. Instead we're shackled to this . . ☹️☹️

If Peter Smith’s coupon on ITV news earlier is anything to go by, the Unionists are expecting an absolute drubbing.

Judging by the expected outcome in England it’d have been handy to have had their elections a week or two before the Celtic nations. Would have helped focussed some minds.

There is a definite concerted smear campaign against Polanski in Englandshire. It’s absolutely appalling but completely expected.

Norwegian energy price is 3p per kWh. We could have that if we were independent. @believeinscotland.bsky.social

Billionaire lairds and Tory donors broke rules around rural subsidies www.theferret.scot/billionaire-... We need sweeping land reform to break these estates up & return the land to the people.

The Ferret did a deep dive into the Electoral Commission’s donation records to find out who was funding Scotland's political parties

So the 30+yr old radio alarm has died & I need to buy a new one. First impressions of what's around is, when the fuck did all the design engineers get culled? All I'm finding are endless varieties of absolute tat.

Did you know that 19 years after the last Labour government left office, 52p in every £ of Clackmannanshire’s council tax is *still* paying off Labour’s PFI/PPE bills? Scotland is still paying the price for Scottish Labour’s last government. Let’s not repeat that mistake. #Scotland #SNP1SGP2

UNCOVERED: The SECRET Plot To DESTROY Zack Polanski

Of course an independent Scotland could thrive as a soverign member of the EU. So many smaller countries already do it! #RejoinEU 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

Here's an idea. Anything that wants to use 'Scottish' or any name related to Scotland, in order to sway opinion, e.g Scottish 'name of newspaper here' or 'Name of think tank' has to have their HQ here, have the majority of their employees here, pay their taxes here, or they can fuck right off.

We're told that Scotland is overrun with asylum seekers. But actually, fewer than 7,000 people are seeking asylum here. That’s only 0.12% of the total population. They wouldn’t even fill Falkirk football stadium. Get the facts here: https://ow.ly/uLW950YQZti

'I can't see what Scotland gains now from continuing to be part of this mess' George Monbiot speaks to The National Podcast about Scottish independence

We need independence so that we can have the same control over our own destiny as tiny, independent Malta. #Scotland #SNP1SGP2 indyposterboy.scot/independent-...

An Al Jazeera visual probe maps the systematic demolition of Lebanon’s border towns, mirroring the devastation in Gaza.

Jobs?. More BS from Labour ----------------------- Mossmorran, closed, 400–430 jobs lost Grangemouth, closed, 400 jobs lost Mingyang Smart Energy, blocked, 1500 jobs lost GB Energy, A Labour LIE 1,000 jobs promised, U-Turned. Scotland doesn't need nor want Nuclear nor Labour. 👇

Independent Scotland can aspire to much much more than UK Labour's vision of a nuclear ridden breeding ground for canon fodder. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/scot-gov-yet...

Sums things up nicely (via George Young on Facebook)

Did you know that since ‛The Vow’ in 2014, which promised more powers to Scotland, Westminster has instead stripped 24 key powers and overruled Scottish Parliament decisions on devolved matters more than 13 times? Vote #SNP1SGP2 to help Scotland win back *full* control of its own destiny.

Probably behind a paywall but worth a read if you can. www.ft.com/content/f9cf...

a Scottish branch office Labour MP called for the pension triple lock to be cut to help pay for defence spending. His name Graeme Downie. the Labour MP for Dunfermline and Dollar. He wrote this weekend that pensioners who benefited financially from peace" should make a greater contributions 👇

It amuses me to see commentators talk about Iran not adhering to International Law or Law of the Seas. They didn't fucking start anything. America adheres to nothing ever, same with Israel. Israel has never signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Iran's not the problem. Never was.

If you don't believe the SNP or the words from indy supporters about what would happen if Sarwar were FM, then listen to the words of Henry McLeish of what happened when he was in the position.

You now have less than 12 hours to ensure all the independence supporters in your life are registered to vote. Data suggests 20% of the adult population of Scotland are either not registered to vote at all or are not registered at their current address. Register to vote - www.gov.uk/register-to-...

...student loans, stagnated wages, mental house prices, 50yr mortgages, equity release, frozen IHT thresholds... The UK system is fucked, & is being deliberately redesigned to be fucked even more, in order to strip everyone of every last penny they have before they die. Tell me I'm wrong.

Exactly. #Scotland indyposterboy.scot/outside-inte...

And there's morons who think the BBC isn't biased! #YouYesYet #IndyRef2

When Sarwar denies he tried to make a deal to work with Reform we should believe him. After all he's such a trustworthy guy. #Scotland #SNP1SGP2