Richard Leonard
@richardleonardmsp.bsky.social
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🌹 Labour MSP for Central Scotland ✊ Trade unionist 🙌 The cause of labour is the hope of the world
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'The main thing is to give people hope' Great words from the great Tony Benn, on the centenary of his birth ✊ How we miss him
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8 months ago
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This scandalous decision to scrap funeral plans that people have paid into for years must be reversed Join the protest outside parliament on Wednesday
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Richard Leonard
RMT Union
4 days ago
Absolutely no guarantees from the Scottish Government that they won’t support a P&O Ferries model! Our thanks to
@richardleonardmsp.bsky.social
for asking about seafarer jobs and new direct roll-on, roll-off ferry services for passengers and freight between Scotland and Europe.
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The return of an international ferry from Rosyth is a good idea but we must not see a repeat of P&O sacking 800 seafarers by video message
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4 days ago
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Richard Leonard
John McDonnell MP
5 days ago
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...
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The Left Needs to Get Its Act Together Urgently to Beat Reform
As Reform surges and we enter a ‘proto-fascist’ moment, it is vital that we reject both complacency and factionalism, and work out how to build a powerful leftist counter-movement — in parliament and ...
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-the-left-needs-to-change-labour
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Good to speak to the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland today – a training and professional development organisation which specialises in community nursing, midwifery and tackling health inequalities
6 days ago
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Further education colleges need investment not cuts Delighted to host a delegation of trade unionists who are fighting to save the Alloa campus of Forth Valley College
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We have not come very far in 900 years
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Opinion: 'Land should be a natural gift shared by the whole community' - Richard Leonard MSP
How things change but how they stay the same. Almost four decades ago, while working for the late Euro MP Alex Falconer, I wrote a pamphlet about land ownership.
https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/opinion-land-should-be-a-natural-gift-can-once-again-be-shared-by-the-whole-community-richard-leonard-msp-5396458
6 days ago
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I will leave Parliament as I entered it: with landlord monopoly and class inequality remaining as Scotland's hereditary curse
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7 days ago
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I laid a wreath at the war memorial in Airdrie this morning in remembrance of all those lives lost in war
8 days ago
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MSPs elected next year must think big and act radical to end the centuries-old injustice of land ownership
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9 days ago
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Nuclear weapons do not make us safe – if we don't destroy them, they will destroy us Big thanks to
@scottishcnd.bsky.social
for the opportunity to address their conference on stopping the nuclear nightmare
16 days ago
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A packed meeting last night of students, family members and staff of Forth Valley College We speak with one voice: the Alloa campus must stay open
17 days ago
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He labelled parliament 'the national gasworks'...
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18 days ago
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Informative visit to Reach Advocacy in Coatbridge today We need a human rights based approach to supporting every citizen and that means investing in organisations like Reach, rather than relying on the market
20 days ago
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This Thursday Fight to save Alloa campus and for more investment in all our colleges
20 days ago
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Sad to say farewell today to Stuart Gulliver who made an indelible mark on the city and culture of Glasgow A visionary thinker who put his ideas into practice: he still had much to give
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Stuart Gulliver obituary
Economic development strategist who helped make Glasgow a cultural centre of international standing in the 1980s and 90s
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/21/stuart-gulliver-obituary
26 days ago
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Thank you to
@fbunational.bsky.social
rep Scott Fleming for the briefing on the planned cuts to Cumbernauld's fire and rescue service, including a visit to the site of St Mungo’s church in the town which burned down in August These cuts put lives at risk and must be stopped
about 1 month ago
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In a year when racism is on the rise, we must stand up and speak out Show racism the red card
about 1 month ago
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Always good to visit the Keir Hardie room at the Baird Museum in Cumnock Looking forward to the Keir Hardie Society AGM in Glasgow on Saturday with guest speaker Melissa Benn
about 1 month ago
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Further education empowers people, strengthens communities, and drives Scotland’s economy Why then has the SNP cut college funding by 20% in the last five years?
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Opinion: 'Further education is not a luxury – it is a necessity'
Our further education colleges form the crucial link between school and work and offer the chance for training and retraining in an age where a job for life has virtually disappeared.
https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/opinion-further-education-is-not-a-luxury-it-is-a-necessity-5358014
about 1 month ago
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👀 Watch John Swinney (eventually) admit he has NEVER visited Ferguson Marine as First Minister
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about 1 month ago
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One quarter of the price you pay for your train ticket currently goes to private companies to pay shareholders I'm backing
@aslefunion.bsky.social
's demand for public financing of new trains through green bonds so that every penny can be reinvested
about 1 month ago
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Great to see Battleship Potemkin at the Bo’ness Hippodrome at the weekend with a live musical accompaniment by S!nk
about 1 month ago
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Not everyone who has joined the protests outside hotels where asylum seekers are staying would call themselves far right But anyone who stands with people making Nazi salutes and holding up signs bearing white supremacist slogans ought to conclude that they are on the wrong side
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Richard Leonard MSP: ‘Let us vow to change it….and let us be united’
Let me speak as plainly as I can, the protests outside the Cladhan Hotel have been fuelled by far right propaganda and attended by neo-Nazis, and I stand fully behind the anti-racist campaigners who f...
https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/richard-leonard-msp-let-us-vow-to-change-itand-let-us-be-united-5325329
about 2 months ago
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I know which side I am on in
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
's dispute with Edinburgh University bosses:
@ucu.org.uk
Which side is the Scottish Government on?
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about 2 months ago
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#OTD
in 1959, 47 miners went to work in Auchengeich Pit and never came home Every year, their village remembers them by coming together to reaffirm the values of solidarity and unity
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2 months ago
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❌ Stop Trump 💥 Scrap nuclear weapons 🌍 Make the world a safer place
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2 months ago
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This is a win for the workers and their trade unions who refused to accept that what they had been told was inevitable
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Alexander Dennis to keep sites open after £4m furlough pledge
The company had set previously out plans to close the plant with the loss of 400 jobs and move production to Yorkshire.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4qn49zr41o
2 months ago
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Today the community of Moodiesburn remembered the 53 miners who perished in the Auchengeich pit disasters of 1931 and 1959 I was deeply honoured to address the memorial service
2 months ago
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We're not going to grow our economy by relying on the war machine and the arms trade
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2 months ago
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Why aren't new trains being bought through issuing green bonds, as
@aslefunion.bsky.social
proposes, instead of by rip-off private lease deals with money siphoned out of the country?
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2 months ago
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I joined the
@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
picket line this morning to show solidarity and hear first-hand about the devastating plan for £140 million of cuts to jobs and courses They are asking people to email the university principal to oppose it
2 months ago
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This is a victory for the rail unions who campaigned with banners bright
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2 months ago
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Great to visit this exhibition of posters by Alistair McCallum and Jane Carroll from the Cranhill Arts project at Street Level Photoworks in Trongate, Glasgow Lots of happy memories
3 months ago
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Migrant workers on farms across Scotland spent another night last night in unsafe overcrowded, unsanitary, inhumane accommodation
@brianleishmanmp.bsky.social
and I had productive discussions with the
@workersupportc.bsky.social
on the campaign to end this scandal
3 months ago
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Songwriter, poet, socialist, feminist, revolutionary Mary Brooksbank is the timeless voice of our culture and our class
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3 months ago
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It feels like we are living in the middle of an attempt to turn back the clock We need to act together so that hope defeats both hate and fear
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Opinion: 'People should be able to be themselves', according to MSP Richard Leonard
When Parliament is in recess it is always a good time to catch up with grassroots organisations and listen to what’s important to them.
https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/opinion/opinion-people-should-be-able-to-be-themselves-according-to-msp-richard-leonard-5276453
3 months ago
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Happy birthday Keir – one of a kind ✊
3 months ago
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In 1926, socialist and peace activist Clarice McNab Shaw proposed this motion at the Scottish Labour women's conference How apt
3 months ago
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Continuing my research into the pioneering and principled life of socialist Clarice McNab Shaw Today in the magnificent Mitchell Library in Glasgow
3 months ago
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Spent a very enjoyable and productive morning at the Ayrshire Archives researching the life and politics of Clarice McNab Shaw: the first woman to become a Labour councillor in Scotland and a great socialist MP Huge thanks to all the staff there
3 months ago
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These are the images of the destruction of Gaza that Israel does not want you to see
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3 months ago
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The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum has a wonderful collection relating to the socialist RB Cunninghame Graham Thanks to Aoife McKenna and the staff for arranging for me to visit today to research his life, work, culture and politics
4 months ago
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'Communism is the philosophy of hope and faith in humanity' – Willie Gallacher, working class agitator
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4 months ago
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Thoroughly enjoyable and informative visit to Brownsbank cottage, where Hugh MacDiarmid lived and wrote. Thanks to Denham and Susan The trustees have great plans to restore this national treasure to help future generations appreciate MacDiarmid’s contribution to our political and cultural thinking
4 months ago
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💯 this Make the super rich pay, not the sick and disabled
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
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The Queer Breakfast Club provides peer support in a safe space for the LGBTIQ+ community in Falkirk and Grangemouth Great to join them for a chat this evening
4 months ago
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reposted by
Richard Leonard
The Scottish Parliament
5 months ago
The Public Audit Committee has published its new report on Ferguson Marine Port Glasgow. Their message is clear: for this historic yard to thrive, it needs stronger investment and clearer oversight from the Scottish Government Hear more from Committee Convener,
@richardleonardmsp.bsky.social
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The US and Israel have turned aid distribution in Gaza into killing fields This barbaric privatised and militarised system must end and the UN's relief agency must be reinstated
5 months ago
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There’s no off-season for PFA Scotland Good to catch-up on their work to defend and advance the rights of footballers past and present
5 months ago
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