Very rough maths would make me assume that: Reform/Tories threw their support behind Gibson (not exactly a progressive…) SNP/Greens mostly voted for an SNP member (mainly Haughey) Considering his number and fact Daniel Johnson was his scrutineer, McArthur had mostly LD + Lab votes

Presiding Officer first round ballot: Kenny Gibson (SNP) - 46 Clare Haughey (SNP) - 42 Liam McArthur (LibDem) 34 Stuart McMillan (SNP) - 6 Really wasn’t expecting that tbh! Assumed Liam McArthur was going to emerge first fairly convincingly

For the first time since 1991, the two teams who can win the league face each other on the last day of the season. The Glasgow giants of Celtic/Rangers have won the league the past 41 years between them. SATURDAY IS QUITE A BIG DAY!

Has enough time now passed to admit that Douglas Ross was actually a very good pundit and was a net benefit to the BBC Scotland coverage? I think he’s found a job that he’s good at unlike councillor, MSP, MP, party leader, football referee…

Keir Starmer to defect to The Independent Group for Change and become the first Change UK Prime Minister, whilst leading the The Independent Group (TIG) into the next election

Tell Starmer. I want him to know it was me.

I’ll be honest, lads, I’m not sure we’re getting that Government of Service and a Decade of National Renewal like we were told we would

Did you doubt the plan anon?

We simply cannot have a second TV sitcom about a by-election in Broughty Ferry, the writers would be getting lazy!

Honestly I’ve thought about little else other than this clip for the past 24 hours. What a spectacularly interesting person she is!

We’ll always have the Highland Council YouTube livestream at 01:15 on the morning of Saturday 9th May, folks. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened!

A fantastic last line

They are literally packing up the tables… SURELY WE ARE CLOSE?! www.youtube.com/live/V8yJMft...

Right… Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch is almost acceptable, but I propose we just say Uddingston don’t get an MSP if they can’t count by now

Jane Dodds (AKA, the Welsh LDs) has gone from 1/60 to 1/96 in the Senedd!

I have a Green constituency MSP. Wild!

I’m working on the assumption that Southside is a stronger seat for the Greens in this election. But 6% stronger? I’d guess no!

This is what election coverage should be like. This is what we tune in for.

Courtesy of @ballotbox.scot, only looks like one seat has its constituency and regional results (Shetland) and interesting to see the difference. LDs won the regional vote and Greens do a lot better (partly at SNP expense?) than they did in constituency

You’re only allowed one island at a time, actually

I think the SNP are enjoying this Tory/Reform tussle in the North East!

The fact politicians can’t stop saying ‘tonight’ is proof we need to bring back overnight counting

Mad how a result like this feels like it should signify: 1) an incredible election for the SNP 2) a horrible election for the LDs And, yet, none of those are likely to be true.

I assume the first result of the day has already delivered the highest % by a winning candidate?

I am afraid that BBC Scotland have reached the ‘nothing is happening’ stage of the election where they’ve spent a combined ten minutes on the colour of Willie Rennie’s suit. (He text Jo Swinson to announce that it’s plum, if you’re interested.)

Ed Davey's North Korean hold on south west London.

I like to imagine they forgot it was a Friday count

Good fun, this!

Voted for a party for the first time in my life today!* *I also voted Labour for the first time in my life in GE24 and had near instant regrets

With 11 hours until polls open, my last poll tracker of the campaign projects an SNP victory and good nights for Reform UK, the Greens, and the Lib Dems as Labour and the Conservatives lose out. Seats (+/- 2021) SNP: 59 (-5) Ref: 19 (+19) Lab: 18 (-4) LD: 12 (+8) Grn: 11 (+3) Con: 10 (-21) 1/7

Obsessed with this Dutchman who: > isn’t going to the World Cup > criticises fans for giving up on the prospect of walking across motorways and swamps to get to the stadium because they “think it’s too hard” > clarifies, if he was going, he would not walk there www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/s...

Saw John Mulaney tonight and it was so good. Spending an evening laughing is good for the soul!

Something delightful about the prospect of Jackson Carlow retaining his Eastwood seat on this projection and therefore stopping Russell Findlay from being in parliament ballotbox.scot/sp26-battleg...

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

Turns out all you had to do was find someone with the surname Hungarian

Interesting omission of a word on different platforms!

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

OH HELL YES. NEIL GORSUCH, THE LAST JUSTICE OF THE MOCHICANS, ASKS "Do you think Native Americans are citizens of the united states." IF YOU TRIP GORSUCH'S NATIVE AMERICAN WIRES, YOU LOSE. GOOD DAY, SIR!

Once again, fascinating that the three people Trump appointed to the court are consistently less willing to do his bidding than Thomas/Alito

Principled Italians have now boycotted Qatar, Russia, and the United States. Good for them!

Did ‘All Rise’ by Blue at karaoke and then a Spanish man got up and, in broken English, followed us by “this one is dedicated to my mum” and belted out a Julio Iglesias song. A beautiful cultural exchange.

Every corner I turn these days, it’s all ube this and ube that. And when, just at this moment, I went to find out what ube is, did I expect a purple yam? I did not.

Really not that fussed about this. Sure, I’d do a tourist levy on accommodation stays first as a money raiser. But it’s not like plenty of European countries have various pricing structures that can vary from free if you’re under 26 or a resident to different prices for EU and non-EU nationals

Me when I shout “hey, I work there!” in the cinema

I’d encourage you to listen to what I felt was the most stark and powerful contribution on a night where there was many. Hopefully there will be another chance in the future.

Genuinely delighted we lost to Ireland now or this would have just sent me over the edge

A before and after shot of the Union Corner Building in central Glasgow. The upper shot was taken in 2025, the lower one this morning, showing how little of it remains standing following Sunday's fire. #glasgow #unionstreet #fire #architecture #architecturephotography

Note to self: stop walking past Glasgow’s rather lovely Victorian architecture on a daily basis and taking it for granted because, well, you never know how long it’s going to be there.

"Until Glasgow treats its built fabric as part of its social fabric, these crises will keep happening". What the Central station fire tells us about how the city manages its built heritage by myself and @severincarrell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...