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.

After the dust settles the anti-democratic effrontery of Independent Green Voice: a far right spoiler has to be investigated by the Electoral Commission. They took 19,975 votes (0.84%) on the list & stopped the Greens winning one more seat.

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Mission (almost) accomplished weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/m...

Just watched C4 news wrt HR26 results. First analysis comment by reporter is “breakthrough” by RefUK! 🙄 Second in parliament blah blah. No mention of all RefUK seats based on PR list etc; they don’t care! Fleeting mention at end on SNP. Very poor.

Some initial thoughts on the SNP's historic fifth election victory, the record Scottish Green performance, the highest ever pro-indy majority in Holyrood and the gracelessness Scottish press who with Labour and the Tories are the big losers. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/m...

Great to hear John Swinney will have scotparl vote on Section 30 for #indyref2 after SNP/Green majority. The unprecedented Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh Indy treble act makes this the ideal time to press forward. thenational.scot/news/26092529.…

reform only hold 13% of the seats in our parliament and reform + tory is fewer than the number of tory seats in the last term in scotland this election has been an unqualified win for progress and human rights and we should be really proud

Does the WM veto sit comfortably with the notion of democracy? This 👆. Well said Bernard. 👏👏 The above has to be stated time & time again.

#SNP #SNPTUG

Why must Scotland be treated differently? In any other nation, a majority of seats is enough. But Scotland must be made to jump higher, beg louder No more

Despite the media assault, in the Scottish elections the people have returned a record majority of pro-indy MSPs. That majority consists of 58 SNP MSPs and 15 Scottish Green MSPs, a record for Scotland's 2nd pro-indy party. Bringing the total pro-indy MSPs to 73! Democratically backing Independence

This is a parliament designed not to have a majority. It was incredible when SNP managed to achieve this. A fifth term when faced with constant negativity from the media and no big billionaire funders is an amazing achievement. The media are trying to frame this as an SNP failure.

NEW: The SNP and the Greens have a joint 'mandate to deliver' a second vote on independence, Scottish Green co-leader Ross Greer has insisted

Worth repeating that the SNP has more MSPs than all the unionists put together. The bbc and other right wing anti-Scotland, anti-EU folk seem to have trouble understanding that. Scotland isn’t England.

The Scottish people have spoken … and now Westminster will ignore our voice A pro-independence majority will be elected once again in the Scottish Parliament. And once again, London will deny a referendum This is a democratic outrage and it must be resisted My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

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.

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A Welsh music star has made an impassioned plea for voters in Wales to reject the policies of the 'bigoted far right' and vote tactically by choosing Plaid Cymru

As people get ready to vote in the Scottish Parliament election please be careful of the spoiler operation which is 'Independent Green Voice'. They are listed second on the regional ballot paper in South of Scotland with the Green Party further down. IGV is a right-wing spoiler operation.

Vote for Scotland and minimise the unionists into irrelevance. In all regions: Vote SNP on the constituency Vote Scottish Greens on the List

And this is what Reform, Labour, and Tories want to do to the UK. Come on Scotland, get us tae fuck out of this so called "Union". VOTE SNP 1, SG 2. TODAY

This horse has a one-of-a-kind sense of humor. Watch as it teases the cat and then puts on an innocent face when caught in the act.

'Your society's broken. So who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No, let's blame the people with no power and no money and immigrants who don't even have a vote yet. Yeah, it must be their fucking fault.' - Iain Banks

Will there be a pro-indy majority on Friday? Will Malcolm Offord actually turn up if elected? Is anything more Trumpian than Reform's threat to locate migrant detention centres in Scottish Green-voting seats? Plus Gaza march ban threat & who really won it for Scotch? lesleyriddoch.com/podcast

Have to say.. as red flags go, proposing to set up concentration camps and taking a £5M personal bribe would be the top two when deciding who NOT to vote for. It is genuinely insane and extremely troubling that Farage could still be electable despite that… or even because of it. WTAF, UK?

Why do we have to tolerate such unadulterated bollox from this hideous man? And why does the media give it all a veneer of potential respectability? Farage is pathologically corrupt and obscenely greedy. He’s a national security threat, a liar and a racist. Just say so. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From the so-called "Scotsman" so-called "newspaper". What the - and I cannot stress this strongly enough - actual fuck? www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

This Thursday will be historic. But what kind of history we make is up to you. Don't look back with regret. Vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May - to build a Wales we can be proud of. ❤️

Scottish politics needs a wake-up. Just as Farage has dominated UK politics post-2024 it is irrelevant if they finish 2nd or 3rd in Scotland. They will be treated as the opposition: saying outrageous things, peddling racism, stigmatising minorities & engaging in culture wars. Centrism is not enough.

The Scottish Tory party political broadcast mentions the SNP more often than the SNP's own party political broadcast. It doesn't say what the Tories would do if Scots were foolish enough to vote for them. A desperate appeal from an intellectually bankrupt dying party with nothing positive to offer.

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The landing technique of Swans 🦢

Resurrecting Tony Blair from the political dead would be political suicide for the Starmer Govt. Particularly after the resurrection & fall of Mandelson. It would confirm the dearth of ideas & strategy in the Starmer Govt & how beholden it is to New Labour. www.newstatesman.com/politics/wes...

The latest Norstat #Indyref2 poll shows a lead for Yes. However, it underestimates the scale of that lead by applying weighting based on the 2014 referendum. If we reweight for realistic current demographics, the Yes lead is 13 points, with No dipping below 40%. Excluding D/K it's: 👍Yes 57% 👎No 43%

A less fragile administration might be more comfortable with admitting this kind of paradiplomacy can be positive and impactful. But not this UK government. Instead? The cringe. Today's @scotnational.bsky.social column. www.thenational.scot/politics/260...

Polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice confirms Thursday’s election is between Plaid Cymru and Reform UK in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Together, we can make history by choosing hope with Plaid Cymru, and reject chaos and division. Vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May. ❤️ #bbclaurak

An obvious antisemitic caricature of Zack Polanski in The Times. But there will be no media or political outrage, which tells you all you need to know.

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"There are new voting systems in Scotland and Wales" says Laura Kuenssberg. 100% wrong. There is a new electoral system in Wales. The Scottish Parliament has the same PR electoral system it has had since 1999. Basic stuff & sadly typical of Londoncentric media. #bbclaurak

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EXCLUSIVE: There is a path to an SNP majority at the Scottish parliament elections in just four days’ time – but it relies on 'oddball' constituencies and the list vote is 'irrelevant', according to polling expert Professor John Curtice

For too long, the Scottish Parliament has basically been 50/50 Indy/unionist. It enables the “there is no appetite for Indy” trope. It gives the MSM the excuse to provide a platform for unionist MSPs. A super majority of 86 is also a minority of 43 unionists split over 4 parties, they individually…

There are only 4 days to go until the most important election in Wales’ history. Cymru faces a stark choice of two futures. Choose hope and ambition over chaos and division by voting Plaid Cymru this Thursday.

New report: Does independence still matter?❓ A new report by @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social and published by @ipsosinscotland.bsky.social and the @glasgow.ac.uk Centre for Public Policy, says constitutional preferences are still important to voters in Scotland. Read: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

🚨📊NEW report out today from @ipsosinscotland.bsky.social and @uofgpolicy.bsky.social - Does Independence Still Matter? Our modelling of drivers of voting intention for next week's Scottish Parliament elections says yes, by orders of magnitude more than traditional political issues. Read more here:

Interesting and worthwhile grid Most interesting is how parties not based in Scotland are all proposing actions that are not devolved so they can’t actually implement them