The answer is yes, you total coward. We will allow most likely traumatised people to come here and then we will force them to feel the trauma of being uprooted from their new home. There is no real reason to do this other than cowardice to challenge people’s misconceptions and in some cases racism.

In a week that feels like a month I missed that the BBC had Kelvin McKenzie on to talk about journalistic standards. The man who wrongly editorialised the working class fans as the culprits at Hillsborough when they were victims. Why is it all apologies for Trump and 0 Fs given to the rest of us.

I remember post 911 the warnings about the impact of new anti-terror laws on human rights. UK bombing other countries is what has radicalised a generation of terrorists. How about stopping that! Now we are locking up grannies and throwing away the key for holding a sign and opposing genocide.

Governing on slogans or vibes. Really good piece this. Our justice system still does not reduce re-offending. Shoplifting isn’t a threat to our safety. It’s a symptom of a broken societal contract. Prisons are expensive, we shouldn’t build more but modernise and humanise our existing ones.

Waiting on a train, minding my own business. Some women gets off and gives me the dirtiest look. I clock her red poppy and she clearly took massive offence at me wearing a white one. Like common, we can all agree that working for peace and not murdering each other is a good thing surely.

We need to talk about asset prices. We don’t just have an affordability crisis. We have a wealth hoarding one too.

Here bunch of people who actually live here, you get first dibs on the land. Er.. how much does it cost? A bijillion pounds, dont you have that? Land reform without doing anything to influence the cost of land is just fiddling around in the form of performative bureaucracy.

The UK equivalent is housing benefit. We pay 30£ billion a year in housing benefit where 40% goes to private land lords. Imagine if we built affordable public homes.

Serious applications only I’d assume. Can you explain away the odd Nazi salute as an unfortunate hand wave. Justify misogynistic comments & behaviour as “locker talk”. A natural talent to construe any issue, no matter how tenuously connected, to immigration. Then this an opportunity for you.

It’s strange to feel hope pressed up so closely with the despair of what the UK could become. But there it is, writes Steph Paton ✍️ Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...

Delighted to welcome Ellie Gomersall to Your Party from the Greens! A proud socialist and trans woman, Ellie’s leadership will be vital in the fight against austerity, for equality and for a socialist Scotland. Excited to work together for the change our communities deserve🫶🏽🏳️‍⚧️

Vile. Has any of them ever spoken to a sex worker themselves. Asked them what they need to be safe. Very proud, that before being in Unite my union was part of UVW which did include the Sex Workers Union. People need to educate themselves, have been recommended reading Revolting Prostitutes.

I think there’s a lot of white men virtue signaling and I just want to say try to be a Global South Migrant in a party that won’t listen to you. I tried to make it a priority in their agenda and it just was not happening. “It’s not devolved” it’s not enough for me. (1/5)

I think this is an interesting point, and fundamentally it doesn’t increase the housing stock overall. The housing crisis is a restricted supply problem created by successive governments failure to build homes at the rate it did pre-1980s.

Let Asylum seekers work! Billions to private companies and hotel owners. Money we could have spent building homes for the poor and asylum seekers alike. Proof racism leaves not just the victims poor but all of us while private enterprise profits from hate.

The biggest failure of every UK government, including in Scotland, has been the complete failure to redress the crime of right to buy, where sold off our housing stock to end up owned by a small group of people. The answer is simple; build, own and maintain coouncil hoouses.

A huge Your Party rally in Glasgow on Friday — and three new councillors defecting from the Greens to mark it! ✊🏽 Independence is a question of democracy: our Scottish members will choose our path. Your Party is the only party that would actually deliver independence with socialism at its heart.

Wes Streeting, from the party of organised labour, threatens workers that if they go out on strike over pay he'll cancel their essential training. Labour, on the side of working people until they stand up for themselves, & then its sneers & threats.

Lessons from a lunatic. If you have a weak currency, a consumer goods based economy and rampant inflation then cutting Gov. spending and not taxing will fuck you. Argentina needs to tax hard on unproductive wealth and spend big on modern industry.

“we’re not here for just tweaking capitalism here and there, just trying to get some reforms under this system. We are calling for a fundamental transformation of society and that is workers controlling the economy and communities controlling the wealth that they produce”

I like my other former Green colleagues are fed up of the abandonment of whole communities. I have joined Your Party because I am tired of lending our power to politicians who don’t answer to us. We have the power to fight back with a new politics, I want to be part of a movement, not a slogan.

Did you know that these 7 companies accounted 50% of the growth in the stock market last year. If these companies are not paying tax and neither are their owners then it is no wonder that none of the wealth in the economy makes its way to the rest of us and why your wages are stagnate.

Scotland has a problematic addiction to foreign money. We seem unable to keep any of our assets in this country. In this case we even lent financial support to this organisation to do so. We need more scrutiny on the wealth we ship out the country and less on the people we ship in.

We can read between the lines what a Thatcherite means by putting a quick end to football fans behaviour in the 80s. The disdain these people have for ordinary working class people was all too obvious at Hillsborough.

More economic illiteracy. We won’t do a Lizz Truss on steroids but maybe 2 or 3 mini-budgets of damage. The party of misogynists practicing fiscal macho-ism. If you are not talking about investment in services, infrastructure, Green tech and housing you are making things worse.

Products like this which use 95% less carbon and are made from 100% waste in Scotland.

Problem with many Green politicians and why Zack Polanski is great, is they make real change sound so boring. The circular economy is one of those things. We are sitting on a gold mine of waste. Waste workers can be paid to recover to crest new manufacturing jobs with local sourced materials.

The right, incl. Labour, like to say they stand up for the country but are shit scared of every corporation going. They will however, tell workers like Jnr Drs who want opportunities and decent pay to piss off.

The Tories are a bit irrelevant now but they are not too far away from Reform thinking. This cut expenditure, save and pay off the debt is nonsense. We already have slashed local authority budgets by 40% there is nothing to cut. You need to tax. 🧵

Clearly the Tories are rattled by Reform. Must be exhausting pretending not to hate minorities the whole time and Reform say what they like. Think with Robert Jenrick and Murdo Fraser the mask has slipped.

Every so often complaining actually achieves something. Fines would be nice but I guess that is expecting too much. Let’s see if this chastisement has any real impact on UK Far-Right Daily.

There’s a media class who judge what is and isn’t worth reporting based upon the agreement with their own closed media circle. Many are the same right wing journalists who work for billionaire owned newspapers. If you don’t play their game you have to work really hard for a fair shake.

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

Labour Government to the Far-Right

This is an attack on all our freedoms. It’s funny that the right always complain about limiting freedom of expression but when in power they are happy to themselves suppress everyone they disagree with. There is another issue that pro-Israeli Gov. Jewish voices matter more than anti-genocide ones.

Want to see how the government has sold off Scotland's natural resources? Here you go 👇

Today, together with all @glasgowgreens.bsky.social councillors, I wrote to the Foreign Secretary demanding urgent action to secure the safe release by Israel of humanitarian responders it has illegally detained, including my constituent Saddaqat Khan.

Does anyone notice in this clip that it is two women telling a man he is using homophobic language. The rest of the men on the panel say nothing. I think it says a lot about where the threat in society comes from for minorities, LGBTQI people’s and women.

On this most important day in the Jewish year, we confirm our support of the Jewish community and recognise their integral contribution to our society.

I’ve been saying for years the Netanyahu does not care about diaspora Jews. If you don’t live in Israel he will happily see you as colateral for his genocide. All my love to all Jews in this sad Yom Kippur. Keep being your feisty loud funny selves 💜✡️

Today is the realisation of Jewish fears. What is happening in Gaza is a genocide but the Israeli state must answer for that and not ordinary Jews. Let’s stand with the Jewish community against Antisemitism. We all have a common enemy in those who try to divide us through hate and violence.

I said Milei will be an utter disaster, I have never been more certain in my life. While this is the Farage and Badenoch blueprint for the UK. The UK though is not Argentina, as the UK is not Venezuelan. However, they will still inflict generational destruction to our public services and economy.

What was Claire up to last week in (and around) council? 🏨 I jointly proposed a motion at full council condemning protests outside hotels where asylum seekers are living - see below for our cross party statement and my speech to the chamber

There is a business class across this country who work hand in glove with the politician class to enrich themselves with zero cares given if it will kill us or stealing public money. Who wants to bet there are no real consequences for this Lord of the land other than losing her ermine.

Well done to all who have brought this to pass. Especially the tireless work of organisers and activists in @living-rent.bsky.social This not perfect legislation but it is still monumental. That should be celebrated.

Go Fash, experience the Backlash.

Over 200 of us have come together as Women Against the Far Right in Scotland and written an open letter rejecting the far right’s racist lies about “protecting” women and girls. news.stv.tv/politics/nic... Join us and sign the letter here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/wo...

You’re the racist, no you are!

Thanks Maggie, Glasgow City Council need to take a long hard look at themselves when these bigots are intimidating women and children and causing aggressive disturbances throughout our city.

Keir Starmer might have found a way to unite the UK like never before. Let’s just call it the poll tax and be done right?