Scotland has to contribute over £9 billion a year towards UK government debt as part of the UK. Remember that when reading GERS! 💵 Debt Interest Paid Today: £71.16m £109bn/year. ~£3,455/sec. www.ukdecline.co.uk

John Swinney announced that if re-elected, an SNP government would use public health powers to set a maximum price for essential food items — including bread, milk, cheese, eggs, rice and chicken — at large supermarkets. SNP Delivering for Scotland!

Did you know a Labour council has been in dispute with workers for a year! Unite Sharon Graham said “The council should now honour the deal scoped out at Acas and stop wasting millions of pounds of residents’ money on failed attempts to break the strike” www.itv.com/news/central...

Free prescriptions, free tuition, publicly owned rail and publicly owned water are worth standing up for. On May 7th, make it both votes SNP for a government that's on your side. #BBCDN #BothVotesSNP

Labour dominated politics in Scotland, winning at every UK election from 1964 to 2010 that’s 46 years. Years of failure! The SNP has since made Scotland a better place to live despite the financial crisis, Brexit, Covid & Ukraine war. Don’t turn back the clock. Vote SNP on May 7th!

Labour dominated politics in Scotland, winning the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK election from 1964 to 2010 that’s 46 years. The SNP has made Scotland a better place to live despite the financial crisis, Brexit, Covid & Ukraine war Don’t turn back the clock Vote SNP on May 7th

According to the MRP poll, not only will the SNP gain 67 seats, giving us a majority, but also that Scottish Labour’s depute leader Jackie Baillie is set to lose her Dumbarton constituency for the first time since devolution in 1999.

Scotland is a major oil producer yet Petrol stations have been forced to close after running out of fuel. With shortages in Dundee, across Fife, South Queensferry and North Ayrshire. Why are Norwegian drivers not facing the same empty pump crisis? news.stv.tv/scotland/pet...

Anas Sarwar has been warned 'it’s time he got his story straight' on the sacking of a Labour candidate charged with fraud 👇

Bankrupt Britain Labour government borrowing has increased to £14.3bn in February, including monthly interest costs of £13 bn. The ONS said this was £2.2bn more than in Feb 2025, and the second highest February borrowing since records began in 1993.  www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why has the Labour government blocked Ming Yang's investment in Scotland? If it is security concerns then I assume the planned new chinese embassy in London will be halted and their 33.5% stake in the Hinkley Point C nuclear power project will be rejected!

Last day in parliament as I step down as the MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands after 15 years. Thanks to my staff and all the organisations throughout the constituency who have helped to make my constituency a better place to live.

Good news from last week's Transport and Environment Committee with the quote approved for the new footpath to the nursery on Riccarton Mains Road in Currie. This will make it easier and safer for parents taking their children to nursery.

🔴NEW: A group leading the push to overturn Scotland’s opposition to new nuclear power says it is “independent” and “grassroots”. But we found links between campaign and a lobbying firm representing EDF, which owns Torness nuclear station www.theferret.scot/britain-remade-links-industry-lobbyists

Labour should cut tax! Petrol has hit £136.9 per litre in Edinburgh but did you know that the Labour Government receives 76p per litre in tax (55% of total) in the form of petrol duty (53p) and Vat (23p). Plus by March 2027 petrol fuel duty will have increased from 53p per litre to 58p.

Scotland's unemployment level rate of 3.7% was slightly down (-0.2%) from the previous quarter. This is lower than both the UK at 5.1% and the OECD 5.0% unemployment level. All comparisons as at January 2026. www.gov.scot/publications...

The MoD has published its annual report & accounts for 2024-25. Buried amongst its 250 pages are some details of RN programmes that have been axed or written off. The report details financial losses which accumulated over the year, totalling about £1.9Bn. www.navylookout.com/sunk-costs-m...

Private Eye highlights Westminster 'incompetence'.

Survation 20-25 Feb seat projection (vs last poll / vs 2021 on new boundaries); AMS Ideal seats: SNP ~ 64 (+3 / +1); 48 Lab ~ 18 (nc / -3); 23 RUK ~ 18 (nc / +18); 23 Con ~ 12 (nc / -19); 15 LD ~ 9 (-1 / +5); 10 Grn ~ 8 (-2 / -2); 10 (Projection caveats: ballotbox.scot/projections)

Breakfast clubs, GP walk-in centres and rail fares frozen. We are focusing on your priorities and delivering progress. Our Budget passed this week - here’s a short summary of what it means for you. 👇

Both Votes SNP! The only time a party achieved a majority in Scotland's parliament was 2011 when the SNP won 69 of 129 seats. Remember 16 were regional seats! Only the SNP can win a majority on May 7th. Make it - Both Votes SNP!

In just over 18 months, the Labour Party have broken countless promises from protecting the workers at Grangemouth and Mossmorran to their failure to cut energy bills by £300.

The SNP want to see an independent Scotland inside the EU. The poll found that 73% of Labour voters, 88% of SNP voters, 70% of Lib Dem voters and 89% of Scottish Greens voters want to rejoin. 80% of under 35-year-olds want to return to the EU. bylines.scot/politics/hol...

Scotland's unemployment rate at 3.8% is one of the lowest not only in the UK but also across the EU.

Scotland’s FOI Act law has received a rating of 103 out of a 150 points by the International Centre for Law and Democracy. Scotland is in the upper rankings when compared to international laws. The UK Westminster FOI Act currently has a rating of 92 points. www.foi.scot/internationa...

School spending in Scotland has increased by more than £1 billion in real terms over the past decade. Scots Gov/Local authority funding across Primary, Secondary and Special schools rose to £7 billion in 2024-25, up 19.7%. The highest education spending per head in the UK.

A wee reminder that the SNP always puts Scotland first courtesy of a Labour Lord.

Scottish Government contributes £659m to Network Rail for the operation & maintenance of the tracks. In addition, Scotrail​ pays Network Rail £516m for Track Access Charges. These are the fees ScotRail pays to "rent" the tracks and stations. Network Rail is owned by the UK Gov.

Scotrail - Scotland’s publicly owned railway - is seeing record numbers of passengers returning to rail travel with high satisfaction levels and lower fares thanks to the support of the SNP Government.

Forres rocket firm Orbex had £100m withheld by UK Labour Government just a month before sale plan announced. European Space Agency document confirmed that €112 million of UK government funding, was still “to be distributed”. www.northern-scot.co.uk/news/reveale...

✅ Rail fares: frozen ✅ Peak fares: scrapped ✅ More money in your pocket The SNP is working hard to reduce the cost of living, and this is the latest example.

Global exports of Scotch Whisky fell by -4.3% by volume. The industry’s top export market, the United States, has seen export volume fall by -15% following the implementation of the 10% tariff in April 2025. UK Labour Gov needs to cut duty and NI hike! www.scotch-whisky.org.uk/newsroom/202...

The Scottish Government’s School Estate Statistics, in April 2025 found that 92% of schools were assessed as being in good or satisfactory condition — up from 62.7% in April 2007 when Labour were in power. Incl. the new Currie High & Wester Hailes HS www.gov.scot/news/school-...

No to nuclear power! Dounreay nuclear site land ready for re-use in 2333. Full restoration of Dounreay to a brownfield site is not planned until 2333 — reflecting the long-lived nature of the radioactive materials involved. constructionmanagement.co.uk/dounreay-nuc...

Scotland just made history by passing a world-first Community Wealth Building Bill. It will ensure public money works harder to benefit local jobs, local businesses and local communities. Here’s why it matters. 👇

Daily Record and Sunday Mail are to be printed in England resulting in almost 100 jobs being put at risk at their printing plant in Glasgow. news.stv.tv/west-central...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Sarwar's roll of the dice backfires

The Electoral Commission fined Labour Together £14,250 in 2021 for breaking electoral law. Labour Together had systematically failed to declare £730,000 in political donations from a handful of wealthy donors. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-tog...

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

UK Labour Energy secretary Ed Miliband has asked Great British Energy – Nuclear to explore deploying new nuclear at Torness, Hunterston and potentially other parts of Scotland, despite the fact that the SNP Scottish Government does not allow new nuclear developments in Scotland.

Hospital infections under the last Labour Scottish Executive. Below is a reminder of how bad hospital infections were before the SNP took control. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18395296/

The Welsh Labour government has started to issue “fantastic" baby bundles a direct copy of the SNP government’s baby box initiative. The bundles include clothing for newborns to six-month-olds, blankets, bibs, muslin cloths, a thermometer, a bilingual book and a playmat.

The House of Lords (Expulsion & Suspension) Act 2015 empowers the House of Lords to expel or suspend its members through a resolution. These powers are generally applied to misconduct occurring on or after June 26, 2015, or earlier misconduct that became public after that date.

YouGov 8-14 Jan seat projection (vs last poll / vs 2021 on new boundaries); AMS Ideal seats: SNP ~ 64 (+26 / +1); 44 RUK ~ 21 (+15 / +21); 25 Lab ~ 16 (-36 / -5); 19 Grn ~ 11 (+1 / +1); 14 Con ~ 9 (-5 / -22); 14 LD ~ 8 (-1 / +4); 11 (Projection caveats: ballotbox.scot/projections)

Pupils record high achievements (2024-25): S3 pupils reaching the expected level in literacy (89.8%) and numeracy (90.9%) are at their highest on record. For primary in literacy (75%) was the highest on record and in numeracy (80%) equal highest. scottishgov-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/deliver...

LATEST: The United States has responded to allegations that it 'abducted' two people from Scotland despite a court order that they were not to leave the jurisdiction

Child poverty in Scotland is lowest in the UK with a rate of 23%. This was lower than the 31% rates in England and Wales, and the 24% rate in Northern Ireland. The JRF said this is “likely to be due, at least in part”, to the Scottish Child Payment weekly payments of £27.15

Over 96% of retail, hospitality and leisure properties in Scotland will pay zero or reduced rates with policies like the small business bonus scheme, reducing the Basic, Intermediate and Higher Property Rates, and 15% Non-Domestic Rates relief.