the only pro-monarchy argument i’ll accept is that having a woke king really winds up the OO

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

this will be a huge disappointment to Scottish Labour’s remaining member

you can really tell the BBC didn’t expect to air the Traitors finale in November because they’ve not pinned a poppy on everything that moves

the union flag poppy badge lmao

lmao what

it would be cool if the SNP were a threat to national security but alas!

Wes Streeting you take this man’s name out of your goddamn mouth

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

And note that he never rejected what some sneeringly refer to as "idpol". Never came close to throwing minorities under the bus. On the contrary. The affordability agenda came hand in hand with him actively standing up for those principles. He could never have mobilised his base like this otherwise.

me @ Labour politicians re: Zohran Mamdani

you see there’s lying (okay, good, all the best politicians do it) and then there’s Muslim Lying (evil, bad, fundamentally inhuman)

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

is quite impressive how full of holes the Equality Act turned out to be

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

i was so excited for Henry Kissinger’s death that I totally forgot to look forward to Dick Cheney’s

more like prick cheney

the SSP won seats at Holyrood with just over 1,000 members, but a lot of that was down to the popularity of Sheridan, I’m not sure there’s even an obvious figurehead for the party in Scotland let alone one of that calibre* (*the calibre of 1999 Tommy Sheridan, not 2025 Tommy Sheridan, obviously)

if the Your Party membership is equally distributed then 50,000 members UK-wide would put them at about 4,000 members in Scotland, which is more than the SSP had at their peak

why do right-wingers enjoy pretending they live in Mad Max so much

probably worth saying that it likely wouldn’t have happened at all without the Bute House Agreement, whatever else anyone thinks about it

the idea that he can’t look at a woman naked without getting mad about trans ideology is extremely funny but also something i believe is 100% true

Piers Morgan is as angry about Glamour honouring trans women as he was about Eastenders showing two men kissing in 1989 and for exactly the same reason.

it will be wild if the only reason the UK doesn’t fully implement the trans segregation policies its own equality regulator is proposing is that segregation is expensive for businesses

it really fucks me off that we need permission to call a man named Andrew Mountbatten Windsor ‘Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’

So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform.... Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally. It's time for Proportional Representation. www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...

this feels essentially identical to the Rayner thing, but with added wagon-circling

i’m a gc feminist from scotland and this is my book

ah shit not my innocent flutter

Nicola Sturgeon and David Tennant being named Scotland’s most popular politician and actor respectively is going to be the inspiration for this week’s JK Rowling crashout

it’s kind of hard to see how Zarah Sultana can run in a leadership contest if she’s ultimately responsible for the legal issues (and potential hefty fines) resulting from the botched membership sign-up portal launch

Seconding, @anthonycarroll.bsky.social talks about what should bring pride in our communities, in contrast to disgusting remarks from Reform UK.

Next, @hollybruce.bsky.social raises the unacceptable waiting lists for trans people 🏳️‍⚧️

but for real why don’t we have electronic counting yet

sad to no longer be in the same party as Ellie, and also sad that our city will no longer have the chance to elect her to Holyrood in 2026

there’s a Subreddit called ‘I Am Overreacting’ which as far as i can tell consists mainly of women posting stories where they could shoot the man involved dead and it would still be an underreaction

welcome to Inverness where the Lib Dems are Tories and the SNP are somehow also Tories

Ash Regan has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

did they accidentally do pro-Sinn Fein graffiti first do we think

it was never closing permanently, cineworld were just kicked out because the building was bought by omniplex, another cinema chain

the rotation revealing that half the stadium bit just sticks out over the edge absolutely took me out

this isn’t quite right @glasgowbell.bsky.social, the slate in question was for the Glasgow branch’s MSP candidate selections, where they won the 2nd, 4th, and 5th slots on the list, there were no candidates from Glasgow in the leadership contest

see the thing is Kenny, it was Plaid Cymru that won in Caerphilly, not some fringe pro-Welsh independence breakaway party founded as an ego vehicle by Wales’ most famous political sex pest

i haven’t said this explicitly but i do genuinely wish the Your Party defectors well, they include friends and comrades, and a lot of campaigners i have a lot of respect for, and several candidates i ranked very highly when choosing our MSP candidates who i wanted to see elected

for real though, the big issue with framing Your Party in Scotland as explicitly as in opposition to the Scottish Greens is that you’re going to inevitably attract the zoomer/anti-woke crowd (particularly as the Alba Party sputters to a conclusion)

lmao the photo choice here suggests maybe The Herald are as sick of Kevin McKenna’s shit as the rest of us

“uk deficit £30bn a year" factoid actually just statistical error. uk runs deficit of £0 per year. Chairs Torsten, who lives in office & buys over 140,000 desk chairs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

i assume this means they’ve given up on getting the money from everyone that signed up to the original membership portal