“I would say to people worried about their standard of living, this election should be about independence”. (John Swinney, BBC Sunday Show) Your priorities are not the SNP’s priorities. They don’t care about what matters to you.

A ‘school-estate emergency’ must declared in Scotland’s Highlands and islands as so many school buildings are in bad condition, MSPs have heard. www.tes.com/magazine/new... @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social

🎥 Under Highland’s SNP-led council, 53 primary schools and 11 secondaries fall below acceptable standards. I asked the SNP’s Education minister why, after 18 years of SNP rule in Edinburgh, they’re still failing to deliver safe and efficient learning environments for many Highland pupils and staff?

I’m still shocked that LibDem MSPs sided with the SNP and Alba to block my efforts to put a legal duty on the Scottish Government to end rough sleeping by the end of the decade. How many more years will “compassionate” Scotland leave vulnerable people to sleep on our streets? #roughsleeping

As an islander, I’ve been a proud supporter of the RNLI for as long as I can remember. It was great to see them in Holyrood this week and hear more about their lifesaving work across Scotland. They really are heroes. #SavingLivesAtSea

I busy week in Holyrood and in the Highlands …

🚜 Labour’s devastating #FamilyFarmTax threatens the future of family farms and agricultural businesses across Scotland. On #BackBritishFarmingDay, support our farmers and rural communities by telling Keir Starmer to scrap his damaging tax. ✍️ www.whatlaboursaid.com/stop-the-fam...

Fantastic day at the #GrantownShow. Good to catch up with folk, see some fantastic livestock, and enjoy (well 🥵) some amazing weather. That’s show season over for me. Another great year showcasing the quality of what Scotland’s farmers produce.

Encouraging signs that, as Reform tie themselves up in knots on issues like men in women’s prisons and their support for the SNP, voters are liking what they’re hearing from the @conservatives.bsky.social Scotland’s challenges won’t be solved by the snake oil salesmen of the SNP and Reform.

⬇️ Details below for my 2025 MSP Summer Surgery Tour. More info at 🖥️ jamiehalcrojohnston.org.uk Please email 📧 [email protected] or ring ☎️ 0131 348 6140 to book an appointment.

Al fresco breakfast (with company) ahead of the Lions 🦁 game. Lovely morning for the start of the Island Games. Only sounds are birds, boats and baas.

As Rachel Reeves warns of new Labour taxes, a reminder that Rishi was right. “You name it, Labour will tax it”. #labour #government #taxes #tax #keirstarmer #epic #fail

🚜 A great few days at the Royal Highland Show. Good to meet up with old friends, new members and stakeholders from across the Highlands and Islands. Our rural policies announced by @russellfindlay.bsky.social were very well received. Only @scottories.bsky.social standing up for rural Scotland. 💙

Reform must come clean on how much their candidate is making from renting out land for a large scale energy project the local community opposes. And whether his company has more land banked for workers camps or similar projects in Scotland.

Just a few of the things I was up to last week on behalf of my constituents across the Highlands and Islands.

Yep, it’s been a hell of a few days to be an @afc.co.uk 🔴 and @spursoffical.bsky.social ⚪️ fan. 🏆 🏆

80 years since Victory in Europe was won, we continue to remember and to honour the sacrifices made by a generation who gave so much to protect the freedoms we take for granted today. #VEDay80

Some of things I’ve been up to this week …

“Any pro-UK voter considering backing Reform in next year’s Holyrood election must now do so in the clear knowledge that they will be helping the SNP remain in power”. Murdo Fraser MSP on how backing Reform only splits the unionist vote and helps the SNP.👇 www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

My thoughts are with all those mourning the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis. May he rest in heavenly peace.

I voted against the SNP's #VisitorLevy and don't want it forced on communities in the Highlands and Islands. Not even a year since this damaging bill was passed, and the SNP are already having to make this bad legislation slightly less bad. They should admit they got it wrong.

Nothing too exciting. Just stars. ✨

My thanks to the Scottish Prison Service for taking me around the site of the new HMP Highland in Inverness, and for the visit to the current HMP Inverness which houses prisoners from across my Highlands and Islands region.

MSP Advice Surgeries … 📍 Friday in Muir of Ord 📍 Saturday in Fortrose More details below …

This is how you treat your allies. #WeStandWithUkraine 🇬🇧🇺🇦

Some pretty decent views on Skye, eh?

📸 This morning’s view from Balmacara. 🗣️ MSP Advice Surgeries today in … 📍 Kyle of Lochalsh Village Hall 🕙 10am 📍 Broadford Hotel 🕚 11am 📍 Portree Community Centre 🕑 2pm Get in touch for an appointment or to arrange a call. Details following 👇

They knew then. They just chose to ignore it. 🥀

Matt on the Labour MPs WhatsApp scandal. 🥀 He doesn’t miss. 🎯

🚜 Pleased to back @rachaelhamiltonmsp.bsky.social’s proposed Equipment Theft Bill which will give farmers and rural businesses better protection from machinery theft. Too many across the Highlands and Islands are victims of rural crime while the SNP government in Edinburgh fails to act.

A ridiculous post. Aren’t you concerned that a jail that was meant to cost £100m is now going to cost nearly £1 BILLION? That should worry everyone, especially Scottish taxpayers who’ll pay for yet more SNP mismanaged overruns.

What a ridiculous claim. I’m not opposed to new jails, I’m concerned that a jail that was meant to cost £100m is now going to cost nearly £1 BILLION. That should worry everyone, especially Scottish taxpayers who’ll pay for yet more SNP mismanaged overruns.

John Swinney absolutely skewered by @russellfindlay.bsky.social on the spiralling costs the SNP’s new £1 BILLION Barlinnie Butlins, HMP Glasgow. It was meant cost about £100 million. Swinney and the SNP have their priorities all wrong. #FMQs

🔶 The LibDems backed it. 🥀 Labour waived it through. 💙 Only the @scottories.bsky.social opposed the SNP and their tax-raising budget.

The SNP promised to dual the A9 and to dual the A96. They’ve failed on both.

Our farm’s VP for Pest Control is NOT impressed by this “cat containment areas” nonsense from the SNP.

People across the Highlands and Islands face an increased industrialisation of their communities but without consultation processes they have any real faith in. There is a democratic and moral deficit.

Good to hear @russellfindlay.bsky.social speak yesterday on why it’s only the @scottories.bsky.social challenging the cosy left-wing Scottish Parliament consensus of the SNP and Labour, and why only we offer real change at next year’s Holyrood elections.

Strongly disagree!

Wishing all my constituents across the Highlands and Islands a very Happy New Year and all the best for 2025. skol 🥃

🎄 Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas.

Last view from my @scotparl.bsky.social office as I head out until after Christmas. As my Inverness office is undergoing refurbishment, we’ll be working remotely until the New Year.

Delighted to be able to use artwork by Orkney artist Ingrid Grieve for my 2024 Christmas card. Based in Orphir where I live, Ingrid paints views which are often so familiar to me. It’s great to be able to promote a local artist, and you can find more of Ingrid’s work at toumalart.co.uk

Are you listening, @keirstarmerp.bsky.social? #BackBritishFarming 🇬🇧

More money for benefits … but funding for public services slashed. The SNP way. www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/1397198...

🚨 @conservatives.bsky.social and @scottories.bsky.social to force a vote on Labour’s #FamilyFarmTax. 🥀 Will Scottish Labour MPs vote to axe the tax, or will they put loyalty to Keir Starmer first and turn their back on Scotland’s farmers and rural communities? www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

The 12th December is @savechildrenuk.bsky.social‘s #ChristmasJumperDay. I hope you’ll be joining me and donning your jazziest jumper to help children in Scotland & around the world get access to food, healthcare & education. 👉 www.christmasjumperday.org