Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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"For nearly 20 years, the [ #SNP] has acted, in many respects, as a bulwark to the worst of Westminster – or so the story goes. Not good policy, just not as bad as Westminster. Just enough to hold power without disrupting the status quo.
When the SNP had the political capital to finally scrap the regressive Council Tax – something they had previously promised to do – they baulked. On LGBT rights, they faltered and kicked the can down the road"
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25593550.snp-still-no-real-plan-people-scream-change/
@simon_brooke I always think about Pete Wishart, there's an example of entrenchment in Westminster.
"For nearly 20 years, the [ #SNP] has acted, in many respects, as a bulwark to the worst of Westminster – or so the story goes. Not good policy, just not as bad as Westminster. Just enough to hold power without disrupting the status quo.
When the SNP had the political capital to finally scrap the regressive Council Tax – something they had previously promised to do – they baulked. On LGBT rights, they faltered and kicked the can down the road"
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25593550.snp-still-no-real-plan-people-scream-change/
Alex Akselrod
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#Scotland - #Librarian cuts at #Glasgow schools will 'rob kids of opportunities' as #SNP Government urged to intervene
EXCLUSIVE: #Labour warned library cuts on Scotland's largest local authority risked worsening the country's 'shameful attainment gap'.
Chris McCall Deputy Political Editor, 02 Aug 2025
Excerpt: "Glasgow Life, which manages the library service for the council, is proposing to take 16 librarians out of the city's education system. The plans would see the school service headed up by a principal librarian along with three area-based librarians, while an 'assistant' would be placed in high schools.
"An online petition against the cuts and shared among parents has since been signed more than 1,300 times.
"Joy McLean said she was concerned about how a decline in #LibraryServices would impact her daughter and other pupils. '#Librarians are essential #educators who foster a love of #reading, support research and #DigitalLiteracy, and help students thrive #academically and personally,' she added."
Read more:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/librarian-cuts-glasgow-schools-rob-35659625
#LibrariesRule! #EducationCuts #ScotlandPol#LoveOfReading #BuildingCommunity#Literacy#SupportingResearch#CriticalThinkingSkills
#Scotland - #Librarian cuts at #Glasgow schools will 'rob kids of opportunities' as #SNP Government urged to intervene
EXCLUSIVE: #Labour warned library cuts on Scotland's largest local authority risked worsening the country's 'shameful attainment gap'.
Chris McCall Deputy Political Editor, 02 Aug 2025
Excerpt: "Glasgow Life, which manages the library service for the council, is proposing to take 16 librarians out of the city's education system. The plans would see the school service headed up by a principal librarian along with three area-based librarians, while an 'assistant' would be placed in high schools.
"An online petition against the cuts and shared among parents has since been signed more than 1,300 times.
"Joy McLean said she was concerned about how a decline in #LibraryServices would impact her daughter and other pupils. '#Librarians are essential #educators who foster a love of #reading, support research and #DigitalLiteracy, and help students thrive #academically and personally,' she added."
Read more:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/librarian-cuts-glasgow-schools-rob-35659625
#LibrariesRule! #EducationCuts #ScotlandPol#LoveOfReading #BuildingCommunity#Literacy#SupportingResearch#CriticalThinkingSkills
Helped to found both the UK Labour Party AND the Scottish National Party? Was a ferocious critic of imperialism, racism & cruelty to any human or animal? Bought his favourite horse—an Argentine mustang—from the Glasgow Tramway Company and rode it for twenty years?
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#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #politics #LabourParty #SNP