Absolutely incredible that Paul Hutcheon doesn't give a single mention to the charities and women's rights groups who have lobbied to scrap the benefit cap and rape clause. He gives all credit to Anas Sarwar and Labour. It tells you that Labour only listen to themselves.

Poundland was one, if not THE, last places where you could get an actual £3 meal deal. Not £3.99 or £4.50 without a club card. Just £3. They've now removed it entirely. If Scotland doesn't declare UDI right now I will scream.

it’s cool how they made a political podcast with the selling point of having all women hosts to counteract the usual male-dominated offerings, and they’re all white woman who have zero concept of intersectionality

Every time I think I might just manage to hold my nose and vote SNP, Swinney reminds me that he can’t be trusted. Not with education and DEFINITELY not with women’s fundamental right to healthcare and freedom. I’m a Green Party member but unlikely to have a constituency candidate 😭

Conservatism is about begging you to think of poor private school kids, while decrying a fairly meagre state school breakfast club program as unacceptable waste, communism, abdication of parental responsibility, etc.

trans people exist. billionaires shouldn't.

For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable. A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.

Absolutely mental take. People are frustrated with ex politicians using their status to access capital and powerful friends to advance policies that harm people's material conditions. If you're upset that Mhairi Black has an acting gig then you need to go outside and fix your priorities.

Pointing out that maybe Your Party Scotland shouldn't use the phrase "Trans activists" was enough for them to delete the post and block me.

You can't call us transphobic until party conference is such a fantastic rallying cry for the left, 10/10. No notes.

This btw to me is absolutely *mind boggling*: there were Scottish Greens pointing to (genuine, serious) SNP failings on trans rights and healthcare as part of the final anti-BHA push, but now wanting to buy into a project that has bent over backwards to accommodate and centre a transphobic MP. Odd!

"The Nats are incompetent, tired, and don't deserve to be in power, but there's absolutely no way that Labour are ready to be in government" is, I am afraid to say, a screamingly funny take from the Scottish electorate.

If you're a left wing voter looking for a political home, you know there's already an eco-socialist, boys-club-free party you can join, right? We guarantee no unauthorised emails asking for direct debits. members.greens.scot/join

Labour centrists puzzled by Labour's massive unpopularity, yet this week alone Starmer has defended peadophile pals and had a cozy meeting with a president committing genocide. Yeah, such a mystery.

More of this 🙏

This boils down to "it's legitimate and proportional to ban trans people from services, whether or not they match their sex assigned at birth, because a rando wants you to".

Interesting highlight from the Scottish Greens co-leadership hustings. @lornaslater.bsky.social, @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social, and @ross-greer.bsky.social all confirm that if they were in the English/Welsh Greens, they would vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social. Progressives backing progressives 👌

"Independence is normal" is such a boring line. People in Scotland don't want "normal". We've normalised austerity, corporate greed, and inequality in the UK for decades. No, independence shouldn't be normal. It should be transformational. It should move us away from normal into a new tomorrow.

I am absolutely begging Labour diehards to touch grass and speak to someone other than their plushies

If the party would like free advice on how to not lose the next election here's mine: stop permitting nationally unpopular, locally rejected ploys by the tourism industry just because tax pounds nice

"Westminster won’t be able to ignore demands for a second independence referendum if the SNP wins a majority again" Anyone arguing this is either lying or are completely ignorant of the current right-ward, anti-democratic shift in Westminster. They can ignore us, and when they do... what then?

Reminding everyone that Kate Forbes spent years carefully dancing around her socially conservative views, enabling her fans to handwave away with "well she never said that" and then DAY ONE of her campaign was "hello, I am actually more conservative than my detractors have been claiming"

Kate Forbes has an absolutely bizarre cult that surrounds her in the media. There is absolutely no substance to the claim she's a level above anyone else, it's purely vibes because she doesn't scare legacy media commentators.

I'm glad Kate Forbes is standing down as an MSP. The less right-leaning, homophobic politicians we have the better. It's better for the independence movement and it's better for Scotland. And no, she wasn't economically literate. The bar is just very low.

Ed Miliband and the UK government are trying to take credit for an offshore wind farm... that was approved by the Scottish government. Absolutely desperate and misleading.

EXCLUSIVE: Labour have fallen completely silent on their support for NHS nurse Sandie Peggie after a series of her racist and transphobic remarks became public

When the SNP last won a majority at Holyrood, they managed to achieve 45% of the vote and were only 4 years into their reign. The idea Swinney Swinney is going to win the SNP a majority, barely polling above 30% and no concrete plan, is fantasy politics. Indy folk need to wake up.

Also sorry, but are we seriously expected to believe they’d be going with this line if evidence emerged of Beth Upton saying something, say, misogynistic for example?

Transphobia: obviously bad in itself, but also a gateway drug for prejudice

Here's the latest (oddly, not reported by the BBC, which has otherwise obsessively covered this - how curious!) on some that Scottish Labour figures like Anas Sarwar, Jackie Baillie, Claire Baker and Melanie Ward have fallen over themselves to back. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

The Courier reports on Sandie Peggie's racist posts, where she used the term "p*kis" and said that, following devistating floods, Pakistan looked like a "giant bowl of coco pops". Sandie Peggie is supported in her case by Sex Matters. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

I am utterly shocked* that someone who is accused of transphopbia also happens to be deeply racist. Who could have seen that coming?** *completely unsurprised ** 😐

ScotGov totally failing to read the room. 🤦🤦🤦 www.thenational.scot/news/2534335...

Several thousand against Trump at the US Consulate in Edinburgh, and this view widely shared

Is this really the way the Scottish Government wants the world to see Scotland?

Tomorrow's front page of The National - Scottish Government told Israel that Scotland is a "critical friend" in secret Angus Robertson meeting last year. With The Ferret we reveal new details about the meeting in our Sunday paper after months of FoI back-and-forth

This will be a revealing read tomorrow. 👇👇👇

Tomorrow's front page 📰 An exclusive report by The Ferret reveals the details of Angus Robertson's meeting with Israeli ambassador Daniela Grudsky

What a disgrace. No wonder they fought so hard to hide this. Credit to @scotnational.bsky.social & @theferret.scot teams for fighting to uncover it. There can be no friendship with the perpetrators of genocide 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💚🇵🇸

We're still to wait for the full context, but if this headline is even remotely accurate then @angusrobertson.bsky.social should feel a level of shame that haunts him for the rest of his days. To say Scotland is a 'critical friend' as it commits genocide on Palestinians is, without question, vile.

John Swinney's article in The National today, an updated plan for independence, is embarrassingly poor. It's just "mention indy more" and nothing else. Last year I wrote about how the unity of progressives could set the blueprint for a new national movement. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/07/05/f...

I can guarantee that either a) it'll be unworkable, or b) it'll require establishing something like a 60% majority in favour with very little detail on how that'll be done.

Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia

Left: Keir Starmer's aids briefing the media that now suspended Labour rebels are "persistent knobheads". Right: YouGov polling finds that Keir Starmer is the most unpopular politician in the whole of the UK. 🤔

Just saw the new Superman film. Left me in tears at the end. I've never cried at a superman film or even a superhero film. No spoilers but if you care about the genocide in Gaza... go watch it. Respect to James Gunn for doing that. Go watch Superman.

Yes. youtu.be/PjdW6lr9NY4?...

To cut people's bills and tackle the climate crisis we need to deliver transformational policies. To fund that we need to take on the super-rich and make them pay their fair share. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

Look at the smiles on their faces. The sheer joy of having a political candidate that is offering serious hope and change for the vast majority. It's such a shame the SNP or the Indy movement don't have this same energy anymore. They could learn a thing or two about strategy/messaging.