Now this is the sort of thing we need to keep a watch for.... #wales www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

2. #Councillor Alec Leishman of Renfrewshire Council can be added to the List of Shame. Scots Tories won't be happy. www.the-gazette.co.uk/news/2494734...

Two news snippets: 1. Reform refugee #councillor Thomas Kerr has resigned as Bailie (a strange civic courtesy title) before being pushed. This seems unusual in Scottish local government, other than the obvious case of Reform being detested by everyone else. www.thenational.scot/news/2494573...

#Scotland #councillors #Reform has six councillors in Scotland. John Cox,Aberdeenshire,Banff and District Laurie Carnie,Aberdeenshire,Mearns Mark Findlater,Aberdeenshire,Troup Thomas Kerr,Glasgow City,Shettleston Stewart Ferguson,North Ayrshire,Ardrossan Matthew McLean,North Ayrshire,Irvine South

#Scotland Next up, candidates past and future and whatever else can be found on personalities. We should start with councillors. There are no MSPs as the Tory defector Michelle Ballantyne was booted out in 2021. There are, of course, no MPs, being first-past-the-post. But more on #Ballantyne ...

#Scotland #branches Thoughts: fewer than I thought, even if they are just email inboxes. Highlands and Islands, Perthshire, Borders are too sensible to participate. I might have missed one but the branch details contain the usual donation option for the gullible, so likely to be kept up to date.

#Scotland #branches Stirling and Clackmannan,Kevin Lilburn,[email protected] West Lothian,David McLennan,[email protected]

#Scotland #branches South and East Ayrshire,Andrew Russell,[email protected] South Fife,Otto Inglis,[email protected] South Lanarkshire,Steven Jarnell,[email protected]

#Scotland #branches Mid and North East Fife,Callum Murray,[email protected] North Ayrshire and Inverclyde,Mike Mann,[email protected] Northern Lanarkshire,David Stark,[email protected]

#Scotland #branches Clydesdale,Janet Jess,[email protected] Dunbartonshire,David Smith,[email protected] Dundee and Angus,Kris Callander,[email protected] Falkirk,Richard Fairley,[email protected]

#Scotland #branches Aberdeen and Kincardine,Brandon Innes,[email protected] Aberdeenshire Banff and Buchan,Jo Hart,[email protected] Caithness Sutherland and Ross,Sandra Skinner,[email protected]

What about joining us? Writers, editors, proofreaders and fact checkers...Bylines Scotland needs you! We're all volunteers trying to tell Scotland's story and fight for #CitizenJournalism! Pure Dead Brilliant, by the way! #Scotland#

The first step is to act local. A trawl of Reform UK activity and personnel in Scotland will be forthcoming. As far as I can see, there's not much of a physical presence but a list of branches that are probably email inboxes, with some familiar names. More soon.