Rory Stewart's campaign to make himself seem palatable continues. Yesterday, he tried the old "some MP's have mental health problems because it's so hard". Today, he's in the Scotsman saying he wants to be an MSP. Here's his abysmal record where he voted against climate change measures, voted to increase student fees/remove funding and also voted to put every UK citizen under surveillance. He's ex-MI6.

There aren't any good Tories.

#UKPol #ScotPol

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24964/rory_stewart/penrith_and_the_border/votes

"for Sarwar, it’s not fate he needs to depend on, but Starmer, and Starmer doesn’t have a clue what Scotland wants" – Neil Mackay in @heraldscotland

#ScotPol

https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23777607.predicted-snp-green-win-2026-puts-tory-lite-labour-spotlight/

#Glasgow City Council formally support #decriminalisation of #drug use. #Green and #Conservative councillors supported the change proposed by the #SNP administration, with #Labour resisting
#Scotland #politics #ScotPol
https://news.stv.tv/west-central/glasgow-city-council-formally-support-decriminalisation-of-drug-use

SNP/Greens this week:
Council tax on 2nd homes to double
Rent controls
Peak rail fares abolished
4 day week trial
Short term lets regs
Nature Scot probe
Childcare expansion
Boosting welfare spending (probably thru a wealth tax)

Tories:
Scotland is full of rickets and rats
Bring back National Service
Ban nitrous oxide
Take benefits away from long-term sick
RAAC
No wealth tax

Labour:
SNP/Greens are extremists
SNP has "lost its way"
Will deliver "change"
RAAC
No wealth tax

#UKPol #ScotPol

Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election likely to be 5 October. Parties are already campaigning hereabouts
#RutherglenAndHamiltonWest #UKpol #Scotland #ScotPol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66705981

Interesting that Humza #Yousaf uses his speech at an #independence rally to concentrate on the "national tragedy" of #Brexit. The #SNP seems to be the only party in #Scotland calling for rejoining the #EU and being honest about the cost of Brexit. With the #RutherglenAndHamiltonWest #byelection coming up, is he emphasing differences with the rival #Labour party, who worry that being pro-EU will be bad for them in England?
#politics #ScotPol #ScottishIndependence #indy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-66695252

First Minister @humzayousaf was all 🔥 up speaking about an independent Scotland in the EU today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺

#March4IndyandEU #MarchforIndyandEU #YesScots #scottishindependence #IndyRef #IndyRef2 #Independence #ScotPol #LoveEU #YesforEU #YesforIndy @BelieveinScotland

A joyful, large gathering in support of an independent Scotland in the EU 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 💙

The sunshine, speeches, pipes, and atmosphere today were great 👏 ☀️ 💛

Thanks @yesforeu @BelieveinScotland for organising this large event in Edinburgh.
#MarchforIndyandEU #March4IndyandEU #YesScots #YesScotland #Independence #scottishindependence #IndyRef #IndyRef2 #Scotland #ScotPol #LoveEU #european #YesforEU #BelieveinScotland #Solidarity

FIRST MEME OF THE DAY

#Labour #ScotPol #StopTheDeaths

August 28th, he's now going to the pub with anti-trans roasters. Fastest melt in the west, pew pew. Shame about that pledge he signed, right enough.

#ScotPol

"Anas Sarwar’s party has suspended David Graham, a senior figure on Fife Council who sat on the cabinet, while the police probe is ongoing.

Graham, 41, is a councillor for Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss villages and Fife’s representative at Cosla."

Grooming offences.

#Labour #ScotPol #Fife #COSLA

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23751829.scottish-labour-councillor-arrested-amid-child-grooming-allegations/

@riggs7sct @kuantancurls @THESNP did you listen to Robin McAlpine on Lesley Riddoch's podcast this week? It was... thought provoking, on the matter of the current state of pro- #ScottishIndependence politics.

I don't believe the SNP have anything left to offer the independence movement. They're a busted flush. ALBA are a cross between a personality cult and very retrogressive social conservatism.

Something badly needs to be shaken up – and hard.

#ScotPol

For those interested in a documentary film on Scottish Indy Ref 2014 from a Yes perspective, tickets are now on sale for premiere screenings and Q&As in Glasgow, Dundee, Inverness and Oban 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#YesScots #Yes #Scotland #ScotPol #scottishindependence #indyRef #independence #documentary #Film #ScottishFilm #ToSeeOurselves

'TO SEE OURSELVES: 2014 A DOCUMENTARY'

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“I don’t have any problem with the principle of co-operation with the Greens,” Forbes said. “It’s about the substance.”

Go. Away.

#ScotPol #SNP #ScottishGreens

I've got a lot of time for Lesley Riddoch, but she's becoming a bit of useful idiot for her "let's all be friends even if we disagree" stuff. You can't be friends with fascists and bigots even if they happen to be pro independence. #Scotland #ScotPol

"So it’s little wonder both sides are attacking the most progressive political co-operation deal the UK has ever witnessed.

They can’t win on policy, they have lost on credibility, so finger-pointing and name-calling is all they have left."

@patrickharvie for the National.

#ScottishGreens #ScotPol

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23720096.bute-house-deal-biggest-asset-securing-scottish-independence/

FUCK, NO!

“I don’t want to be in opposition for the rest of my life,” she said.

“I would really like to be in government and that’s why I would like to be able to stand for Holyrood."

Get tae fuck!

#ScotPol

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23715711.joanna-cherry-says-wants-sit-msp-holyrood/

Feels like this needs a bit of a reboost.

#BibbyStockholm #asylum #refugees #immigration #ScotPol #PrisonShip

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/638626

"A senior judge has granted Scottish Trans permission to act as third-party ‘public interest interveners’, which means that they can submit written evidence to the court about why they believe that the UK Government’s reasons for blocking the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill are wrong or inadequate."

#ScotPol #Trans #Section35

https://www.scottishtrans.org/scottish-trans-joins-legal-challenge-to-uk-governments-veto-of-gender-recognition-reform-scotland-bill/

Really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this noo. Crying about wellies for inspections while yer man Sunak is roaring about in a private jet, giving 4k a day to the UKIP supporters who own Portland Port, 12k a day to slaveowner founded Bibby Marine.

"A book about Marxism and 21 copies of "How to run a government so that citizens benefit and taxpayers don't go crazy" were also purchased."

Oh the humanity!

#SNP #ScotPol

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66434333