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A #sculpture of a #stag on the #Holyrood #Fountain in #Edinburgh, #Scotland
#JamieGreene quits the #Conservative group at #Holyrood. He says the party has become "#Trump-esque" and says that the "party that made a young, working class, #gay man from #Greenock feel very welcome... no longer exists" and that it's now in a "grotesque dance with Nigel #Farage"
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#politics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrz91p9dpvo
"a significant number of female MSPs in the Scottish National party are stepping down before the May 2026 elections, citing lack of support from the party, tolerance of bullying, and abuse in the chamber and online"
One of the #Sculptures on the #Holyrood #Fountain in #Edinburgh
@petealexharris given how useless the #SNP has proven itself as a government for Scotland, a significant victory at #Holyrood is unmerited and unlikely.
I expect to vote @ScottishGreens again, but I would very much prefer a new party bringing together significant voices from the left to campaign for #ScottishIndependence.
Who is in the least surprised at this? #JohnSwinney's government are at best ambivalent on the #ClimateEmergency.
They're completely useless, exhausted and out of ideas, and eager to hand over power to #Sarwar's equally useless #Labour party at next years #Holyrood elections.
Taking the piss - one expecnsive Tory MSP
A Conservative MSP who asked almost one thousand “spurious” parliamentary questions in a month — costing Holyrood authorities more than £100,000 — has been accused of a “flagrant abuse” of taxpayers money.
One of the #sculptures on the #Holyrood #Fountain in #Edinburgh
Ten years and 10,000 #samesex #weddings: How #MarriageEquality changed #Scotland for the better!
#NicolaSturgeon was #firstminister at the time of the #vote. She believes passing the #act is one of #Holyrood's five most #important #achievements.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Scotland #SameSexMarriage #MarriageEquality #LoveWins #LoveWon
Third, if you split a holding into a set of smaller holdings each under different beneficial ownership, you greatly reduce the total amount of tax paid. This will necessarily drive holdings smaller.
Fourth, communities don't pay tax on common land: rather, it is to them that the tax is paid.
This means that instead of 'local' councils having to go cap in hand to #Holyrood for their finance, they instead have to beg from their Community Councils, driving democracy downwards.
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@kinghornbeach We haven't seen what they can get in the 2026 #Holyrood election yet.
I hope you're right that they will do poorly, but I'm no longer confident.
@Wen @muminitaly #Labour are as fiercely imperialist as the most jingoisitic of the #Tories. We could win every single seat in Scotland and all we'd get for it would be the closure of #Holyrood.
How would it be if the #SNP split into two parties:
The Technocrats, led by #Swinney, who seek to govern well at #Holyrood but do not contest #Westminster elections; and
Scotland's Party, led by #Flynn, who campaign for #ScottishIndependence and stand in #Westminster elections but do not contest #Holyrood.
It does not seem to me that you can be both an incumbent (or aspiring) party of government, and a party of independence, when there is no constitutional path to independence.
Have you ever been to the Scottish Parliament? Well here's a look at some of the great work being done to protect our languages there.