Obviously, I won’t be commenting on any live police investigations. Important people are aware that there are restrictions in place on what can be said about these things. However, I can say that I wish Virginia Giuffre were alive to see today’s news.

2 million people in the UK are paid the national minimum wage. Reform are a party of the rich, for the rich.

This weekend we were out in force in Hanover, Tillydrone, and Turriff. Thanks especially to new members who show up to get involved, it’s easy to feel demotivated and helpless in the current climate but with your help we’ll get people to #VoteScottishGreens in record numbers this year 🗳️ 💚 📈

Trump is no friend of Scotland. He has threatened our neighbours, lied about our country, and armed war criminals. The US military shouldn't be allowed to use publicly owned infrastructure in Scotland, such as Prestwick Airport. It's time to kick them out.

This is what gets to me all the time. Many women are killed by cis men they know but all the focus from politicians and media is on trans people just trying to live their lives Maybe we should focus on the real issues

Jim Ratcliffe abandoned workers in Grangemouth and fled to Monaco to avoid paying taxes in the UK. His hypocrisy knows no bounds. Another super-rich man blaming immigrants for the problems caused by billionaires.

🗞️ North Aberdeenshire leafleting this weekend 🗞️ Low key, family friendly Sat: 1.30pm in Cuminestown, meet at the Village Hall Sun: 1pm in Turriff, meet at the bike rack at Tesco

🗞️ Leafleting this weekend 🗞️ Saturday: arrive any time between 12.30 and 1.30 @ Grub cafe, next to Aberdeen Science Centre, 179 Constitution Street, AB24 5TU Sunday: meet at either 10.15am or 1.15pm, at the Liberty Kitchen cafe at the Wallace Tower, Tillydrone Road, AB24 2TP

🟢 Scottish Greens have been delivering increased provision of free school meals, previously having secured the expansion of universal free school meals to P4 and P5 pupils across Scotland, as well as the ongoing expansion to P6 & P7 pupils who receive the Scottish Child Payment (SCP). 1/2

The victims of Epstein and his associates seem to be getting forgotten amidst the political psychodrama. Should Starmer resign? Should Mandelson be investigated for the contents of those emails? Yes. But where is the justice for the girls who were sexually abused? When will their voices be heard?

You know those little fish that follow sharks around, picking bits out of their teeth? Do you think the sharks care much for their views? Scotland needs parties that aren't led by pilot fish who get distracted and undermined by psychodrama hundreds of miles away. #VoteGreen

One of many reasons to tax the rich and restructure the economy to be more democratic: money represents control over collective productive capacity, and if that is guided by just a few individuals with narrowminded profit motives, we end up with monuments to the absurd whilst basic needs go unmet.

Yesterday we marked 3 months until the Scottish parliamentary election with a leaflet run in Aberdeen, huge thanks to the new members who came along and got involved, watch this space for more opportunities to help send a record number of Greens to Holyrood! #VoteGreen

Campaigners stressed that “there is nothing age inappropriate about being LGBTQ+” and warn that moving books to senior sections or making them harder to access is “deeply concerning” https://www.theferret.scot/books-scottish-schools-librarians/

Please, everyone, spare a thought for the real victim in all of this

Least surprising fact of the week

I was on the NHS Grampian adult autism assessment list for years until the council abruptly shut it down. The waiting list is now in limbo with no actual service. This is a disgraceful situation and ScotGov needs to treat this patchwork of service as a priority.

This verdict leaves Labour’s anti-protest laws in tatters. Labour has tried to tell us that Palestine Action is a terrorist group & should be considered alongside groups like ISIS & Al Qaeda. But this jury verdict of not guilty makes a mockery of this. 1/4

New @sarg-scharr.bsky.social study busts a big alcohol industry myth. Claims that reducing alcohol consumption “hurts the economy” ignore a key fact: people don’t burn the money they don’t spend on alcohol - they spend it elsewhere. Using UK... 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This Saturday will be 3 months until we get the chance to send a record number of Greens to Holyrood! Come along to central Aberdeen and help us deliver leaflets: 📍Aberdeen Science Centre AB24 5TU 🕰️ arrive from 12.30 to 1.30

On #WorldCancerDay, we're pleased to see health warnings on alcohol labels in the National Cancer Plan. Alcohol is causally linked to 7 common cancers, yet public awareness is worryingly low. This is the first step to address this. Here's why we need mandatory cancer warnings on alcohol labels 👇

The House of Lords puts cronies, donors and disgraced politicians like Lord Mandelson in positions of immense power over our country for life. Unelected and unaccountable. Abolish this relic.

Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs. They've stopped people from using drugs safely. It's time to legalise *and* regulate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don’t have a lot of time for politicians who suddenly care about the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people twice a year. Especially when they have done everything in their power to damage it, either collectively or to specific individuals, for years now… Your tokenistic posts on social media mean little.

Rights are won through struggle and solidarity. Scottish Greens will stand with and fight for LGBTQIA+ people, always. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

We express our solidarity with Kurdish communities and call for de-escalation and a durable ceasefire in northern and eastern Syria (Rojava). More from our co-chairs @vulatsetsi.bsky.social & @ciarancuffe.bsky.social here: europeangreens.eu/news/europea...

This is encouraging news. But deaths from alcohol remain unnacceptably and stubbornly high. Our economy and productivity, our NHS and public services, our communities and loved ones are still reeling from the impacts of alcohol harm. Government cannot see this as job done.

The drinks industry is already pushing to water down government plans to improve labelling. As Dr Katherine Severi states, people have a right to know what they are drinking and the health risks: “Public awareness of risks like cancer remains low... www.ft.com/content/eb76...

When Labour loses voters to Reform:Oh god how can we pander to you? Would you like to see our MPs berate a migrant on live TV? Can we end fuel duty for you? Potential green voter: Yo that guy is smelly and you're smelly for listening to him, actually.

Severe flooding is becoming more common, especially in Aberdeenshire and Angus. Having visited homes in the latter that routinely flood, I know how devastating this is for people. We need more nature-based solutions, from mountainside to seaside, for water management. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Many world leaders have pursued a strategy of appeasement. They fawned over Trump and praised him with disastrous results. This week, we finally saw that begin to change. The UK Government must accept that it can no longer treat the US as a reliable security partner.

It is not ok that one so-called "world leader" threatens to invade an ally simply because he didn't get a medal. This petulant, egotistical toddler is making a mockery of international law and geopolitical consensus. He is not fit for office. He is putting us all at risk. 1/2

This is absolutely shocking. What Shabana Mahmood is calling for is essentially a deeply authoritarian, "big brother” state. It is totally unacceptable, and we must resist this dystopian future. Link below 👇 The National 1/2

Westminster has failed Scotland. We need to show that independence would make a real difference to people’s lives, contrasting that with the chaos and mismanagement of Westminster. Our movement is building a positive case for an independent Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[1/6] A reminder: Europe has cards to use against the US. Lots of them. To cite some examples: - Tighten screws on US digital giants (taxes, fines, even bans) - Export taxes disrupting US supply chains eg pharma - Exclude US firms from European procurement, inc defence ecfr.eu/publication/...

The EU and UK’s policy towards the Trump administration has been pathetic. High tariffs on all our goods entering the US market are now inevitable. All that grovelling has delivered nothing. Collectively, we need to come together to defend Greenland and each other.

Our environments are too often saturated with #alcohol - whether in terms of places selling it, or advertisements - it's in our faces everywhere! 👊 Typically, the more deprived the area - the more places to buy alcohol, reinforcing harm in communities already disproportionately impacted!

The Scottish Greens's budget proposals were accepted by Scot Gov, so Scotland will expand free school breakfast clubs and support former Mossmorran workers. It will be paid for by taxes on private jets, shooting estates, and million pound homes. 1/2

🚨 Scottish Green MSPs have secured taxes on the super-rich to help fund schools and childcare in today's Scottish Budget. ✅ Private Jets: taxed ✅ Shooting estates: taxed ✅ Mansions: taxed ✅ Free breakfast clubs: delivered

The Scottish Government has agreed to both key @scottishgreens.org tax proposals: ✈️ A new tax on the 12,000 private jet flights taken in Scotland every year 🏰 A 'Mansion Tax' on £1 million+ homes This will raise millions for services like schools and our NHS.

We hope everyone is keeping safe, fed, & warm. For communities in #Aberdeen & #Aberdeenshire we are gathering info on the impact of current snow conditions. Please complete the survey to help inform future planning and support necessary to strengthen local resilience. www.surveymonkey.com/r/C7ZDHN3

Every day we see where the politics of Donald Trump and the far right leads. It's a politics of hate, fear, corruption and destruction. It's a politics everyone in Scotland must stand unequivocally against, abroad and at home.

Oil companies own Donald Trump. If Exxon Mobil tells him to abduct the Venezuelan president…well that's exactly what he does. It's a world controlled by corporations. It’s time we took that control for ourselves.

Not for the first time, where other European leaders wring their hands over Trump, Spain’s Sánchez draws a line. A stance that is only looking more sensible (more *realistic*) as time goes on.

Fascist US President 🤝 Fascist Social Media Platform The UK Government thinking everything is A-OK to keep continuing on as before with them. Never in my lifetime has there been such a gaping moral void at the heart of this state than right now. What a grim world we're now in.

This illegal invasion of another country while its citizens sleep is a cynical act of American imperialism. The fact that Venezuela has some of the world’s largest oil reserves makes this feel very familiar. Greens stand against this contempt of international law. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

This is an incredibly weak response from the EU, and a dangerous position to take. Maduro's legitimacy is not the issue at hand. The US is acting as a rogue state, and will embolden other states to use unchecked military power for their own ends. We need international law, not gangsterism.

Reports from late 2025 indicate a rise in hate crimes across Scotland. Racist offences, linked to anti-migrant rhetoric, scapegoating, and protests, made up 60% of such cases. That’s a 6% rise from the same period in 2024. This year, we need to build a safer, more inclusive Scotland for all.

🚨Scotland’s coastal waters are at risk! Evidence shows that salmon farms are having disastrous effects on our waters and are threatening endangered species. We need a stop to licensing now to protect Scotland's waters. greens.scot/ProtectScotl...

Abolish the House of Lords