Surely they've suffered enough?

And all 2.9% reflected the paper media’s “SNP bad” campaign.

Phillipson boasting about scrapping the two child benefit cap A reminder that the govt could have scrapped the cap in July 2024. Instead Starmer suspended 7 Labour MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap it & had to be dragged kicking & screaming to scrap it 20+ months later

Morning, Sunderland. Meet one of your new councillors. "In now deleted posts, Gibbins ranted on social media that he ‘carnt [sic] believe amount of Nigerians in town’ and they ‘should melt them all down and fill in the pot holes’." What happened to Reform's " metro.co.uk/2026/05/09/r...

Seen this @ballotbox.scot ?

Pretty much sums up the view from London: "Britain's" fractured politics by a "British" media outlet, in which Scotland gets a brief passing mention towards the end. No wonder Scotland has by far the highest social media use in the UK. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is what we're forced to pay for: the flagship channel on the public national broadcaster in Scotland, after elections to our Parliament. An hour on England's council results, 30 seconds to attack the Plaid leader in Wales - and zero mention of our election. Followed by... Politics London.

Trevor Phillips on Sky News pontificating about 'separatist' parties in Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland pressing for referendums. Philipps is on the advisory council of Labour-linked anti-independence propaganda group These Islands, hardly a neutral commentator. These links should be made clear.

Why we need independence number 3,826.

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Reform have suspended a newly elected Sunderland councillor for racist comments, but that's a different Sunderland councillor to the one that was kicked out the party the other day and also not the one who beat his partner and allegedly abused a child that was elected on Thursday.

If you like data, here is something interesting for you: Bridget Phillipson interview on LK: 9m 40" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 31 Richard Tice interview on LK: 8m 23" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 9

The Sunday newspapers, and their self proclaimed Tory columnists, are unanimous that nearly two decades of SNP Scottish Government is irrelevant but some English Reform councillors have broken the mould of British politics. Guess which two parties are not included in their “five party state”.

SNP got 38.2% of constituency votes, higher than the 32.2% for Labour in the Westminster general election that gave it a Commons landslide. Higher than the 35.3% Labour got in Scotland in 2024. But the SNP victory is a 'fluke' that means the system needs changed while Starmer has a mandate.

Former Labour MP Ian Davidson, who said of indy supporters “The debate will go on in the sense there is a large number of wounded still to be bayoneted" has taken a job as advisor to Malcolm Offord. Tell me again that Labour would never do a deal with Reform. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2609246...

The unionist bot army gear up.

13:15 on Saturday the 9th of May. The BBC News channel cuts to the victory speech of John Swinney, the SNP leader. It is accompanied by a headline telling us that the Scottish result is still projected, fourteen hours after the final votes were counted. The BBC has no interest in Scotland.

It is 11:40 on the Saturday after the Thursday elections. I am, sadly, watching BBC news. They are not doing well… 1/3

The English newspapers (including those that falsely put Scottish in their name here), having been unanimous that a twenty year SNP government in Scotland is of no consequence, are now unanimous that a few Reform councils in England is a seismic event. We need to get out of here.

Opinion: On the day that the SNP win a fifth successive Scottish election and Plaid Cymru win in Wales the @financialtimes.com still likes to pretend that English voting intentions are synonymous with British opinion. Still, Britain, England, it’s all the same innit?

What's clear from today's election results is that three of the four constituent nations of the so-called United Kingdom have now elected political parties whose primary raison d'être is to bring an end to the United Kingdom. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

Thank you to everyone who voted for the SNP and the Greens despite the propaganda campaign waged against them by the whole of a biased, ultra unionist media. Well done for ignoring them and voting for Scotland’s bright future as an independent nation in Europe.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SNP have won a historic 5th term and a Scottish independence majority is coming. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Plaid Cymru has won in Wales. 🇮🇪 Sinn Féin lead the Northern Irish government and are calling for an Irish unity referendum. ➡️ The Celtic Exit from the UK is gathering pace and the UK is living on borrowed time.

Gustav Klimt was 17 years old in 1879 when he drew (with charcoal and black chalk) this portrait of a young girl. His superb technical ability as a draughtsman is evident even as a teenager in the way he uses shadow to create a three-dimensional picture on paper.

Remember, when the unionists and the media will say that this election was not a judgment on the SNP's record in government: they are lying. The people of Scotland have weighed that record and said "pretty good, actually."

However scunnered you are. Whatever the questions you might pose. Reform is not the answer.

The difference in results for Reform between Scotland and England are so overwhelmingly different it must now be clear to everyone that Scotland HAS to be an independent nation Scotland rejects division and hate, England embraces it #ScottishIndependenceNOW!

I see the "Scottish" Daily Express is taking the election results well.

BBC Scotland coverage of the election continues. Presenter: Welcome to the representative of a unionist party, another unionist party, and a different unionist party. So, who’d like to tell me why the SNP victory doesn’t matter and why independence is a busted flush? Tarquin, why don’t you start.

Eluned Morgan, Labour first minister in Wales has lost her seat. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all now have govts which reject Westminster rule. In a normal country that would provoke a constitutional crisis, but in the UK the Labour govt and London centric media will try and ignore it.

Excited to share the BBS results page for the 2026 Scottish Parliament election. True to form, there's going to be more data on here than you can shake a stick at, giving you the most in-depth rundown available anywhere! This will all update automatically throughout the day, so refresh often!

@scotnational.bsky.social has a subscription offer running, for just £20 you can buy a digital subscription to Scotland's only pro-independence newspaper meaning you get access to my weekly column. www.thenational.scot/news/2608447...

Anas Sarwar approached Reform’s leader asking to form an alliance against the SNP. If SNP voters stay home, Labour and Reform get stronger. Make it Both Votes SNP today. Polls close at 10pm.

A vote for any other party risks strengthening Reform UK’s influence in Scotland’s Parliament. To keep Reform out and put Scotland’s future in Scotland’s hands, make it Both Votes SNP today. Polls close at 10pm.

Martin Compston: “C’mon Scotland! This is it. Vote to lock out Reform. Vote for independence." Both votes SNP by 10pm tonight.

Don’t regret not voting. You still have time.

We are in touching distance of an SNP majority that will cut your cost of living, lock Farage out and secure the choice of independence - but it will only happen if you vote for it tomorrow. Every vote will count. #BothVotesSNP

If the mainstream press refuses to investigate Reform’s candidates and their scandalous backgrounds and attitudes, I guess @bylinetimes.bsky.social will have to do it. These are just some of our exclusives from the last couple of days Www.bylinetimes.com

Malcolm Offord's charity – which he has vowed to donate his MSP salary to if elected – has been reported to the regulator 👀 Read full story @scotnational.bsky.social 👇

I will vote SNP tomorrow because I believe in the people of Scotland and in our destiny to forge an independent nation that will act as a beacon for progress across the world. For we hae faith in Scotland’s hidden pouers, The present’s theirs but aw the past and future’s oors. MacDiarmid

Just seen Richard Dawkins telling a speak your weight machine that it's wearing a smashing blouse.

"Reform has taken out a three-page ad in the Powys County Times... "In all 478 words, Farage mentions the words ‘London’ or ‘Londoners’ no less than seven times. The word ‘Wales’ is not mentioned once." open.substack.com/pub/willhayw...

A string extravaganza! There's some bluegrass, some country, some folk — and some sounds that we couldn't possibly label even if we tried. Look for Tiny Desk Radio on your local NPR station. n.pr/42aByBJ

📌 ICYMI — ‘I Set Up a Fake Far-Right News Channel to Interview Reform UK Candidates and This Is What They Told Me’ The Reform hopefuls were quick to condemn scandals supposedly overseen by Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat councils, without realising they were actually condemning the…

i wonder how many times trump *thinks* he’s mentioned the cognitive tests

Failed Waymo robot being towed in Orlando. "Self-driving ride shutdown at a high traffic road, leaving passenger stranded and in danger." OP: tiktok.onlinesalesqueen

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we all know I have no life, so:

Red and Blue.