We had someone try to tell us that if #SNP support dropped 5%, we'd need to vote SNP on the list to mitigate it.

We demonstrated that this is not only FALSE, but counterproductive to the point of losing the pro-indy majority.

Only voting #SNP1SGP2 would maintain it.

QED
https://radiojammor.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/the-two-party-pro-indy-strategy-for-holyrood/

We had someone try to tell us that if #SNP support dropped 5%, we'd need to vote SNP on the list to mitigate it.

We demonstrated that this is not only FALSE, but counterproductive to the point of losing the pro-indy majority.

Only voting #SNP1SGP2 would maintain it.

QED
https://radiojammor.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/the-two-party-pro-indy-strategy-for-holyrood/

All UK elections for the 50 years before Tony Blair destroyed our collective faith in politics had turnouts over 70% - many over 75%, and some over 80%.

After Blair that mostly dropped to 60%-65% - even #Brexit was only 72% turnout.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1050929/voter-turnout-in-the-uk/

If you want change, give people something inspiring to vote for, instead of just asking them to choose the lesser of two (or more) evils.

#UKPol #Labour #Tories #Greens #Reform #SNP #PlaidCymru

All UK elections for the 50 years before Tony Blair destroyed our collective faith in politics had turnouts over 70% - many over 75%, and some over 80%.

After Blair that mostly dropped to 60%-65% - even #Brexit was only 72% turnout.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1050929/voter-turnout-in-the-uk/

If you want change, give people something inspiring to vote for, instead of just asking them to choose the lesser of two (or more) evils.

#UKPol #Labour #Tories #Greens #Reform #SNP #PlaidCymru

"If the polls are to be believed, the United Kingdom is in a very interesting position. By the end of May, it is likely that the largest party in three of the four constituent countries of the UK will want the larger polity in which they operate to break apart."

#UKPol #ScotPol #SNP #WelshPol #PlaidCymru #NIPol #SinnFein

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/22/westminster-devolved-parliament-uk-independence-

"If the polls are to be believed, the United Kingdom is in a very interesting position. By the end of May, it is likely that the largest party in three of the four constituent countries of the UK will want the larger polity in which they operate to break apart."

#UKPol #ScotPol #SNP #WelshPol #PlaidCymru #NIPol #SinnFein

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/22/westminster-devolved-parliament-uk-independence-

Pro-indy SNP supporters should vote for Scottish Greens on the list vote in May if they don't want to waste their 2nd vote and want to help keep Reform down:

"The [SNP]’s likely success in [constituency contests] would mean that, despite not being awarded a single list seat, the nationalists will have 45% or so of the seats in the chamber, well above the party’s 29% share of the list vote"

https://bylines.scot/politics/holyrood/election-2026/why-the-electoral-system-matters-holyrood-election-2026/

#scotpol #holyrood2026 #SNP #SGP

Pro-indy SNP supporters should vote for Scottish Greens on the list vote in May if they don't want to waste their 2nd vote and want to help keep Reform down:

"The [SNP]’s likely success in [constituency contests] would mean that, despite not being awarded a single list seat, the nationalists will have 45% or so of the seats in the chamber, well above the party’s 29% share of the list vote"

https://bylines.scot/politics/holyrood/election-2026/why-the-electoral-system-matters-holyrood-election-2026/

#scotpol #holyrood2026 #SNP #SGP

@onepict Indeed. And he's not alone. I'd also cite Stephen Flynn, although others may disagree. It seems to me that he's made himself a cosy niche in which he has influence and exposure without responsibility.

#ScotPol
#SNP

"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"

#ScotPol

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25593550.snp-still-no-real-plan-people-scream-change/

@onepict Indeed. And he's not alone. I'd also cite Stephen Flynn, although others may disagree. It seems to me that he's made himself a cosy niche in which he has influence and exposure without responsibility.

#ScotPol
#SNP

"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"

#ScotPol

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25593550.snp-still-no-real-plan-people-scream-change/

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

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

Good for Mhairi Black!

“To be honest, I’m looking around thinking, ‘There are better organisations that I could be giving a membership to than this one that I don’t feel has been making the right decisions for quite some time.’”

Her reasons for leaving the #SNP now (Trans rights, Palestine) are at least as good as mine were (the Monarchy) in 2008. She's still a person who I'd vote for -- and listen to.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#GazaGenocide
#ScotPol

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25340185.ex-mp-mhairi-black-leaves-snp-slates-party-direction/

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?

3/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #politics #LabourParty #SNP