The Inverness Stop

@AllanDLyons Shave the face pubes Allan.

Today I submitted my nomination to stand as a candidate for Rutherglen and Cambuslang. The paperwork is now in, and I’m looking forward to continuing with the campaign over the final 6 weeks. I may have been the first of the Glasgow candidates to get it submitted, it's good to be organised. I’ve also been spending time going through policy in detail, focusing on the issues that matter most to people locally: healthcare, the cost of living, and stronger communities. The direction being set out by @Malcolm_Offord and the wider team is a positive step forward for Scotland. I’ll be back out speaking to residents over the coming days and continuing to build a campaign focused on real, practical concerns.

@RealStephenKerr As a Tory, discussing children massaging people isn't doing you any favours.

Kids as young as four are being taught to massage each other in schools. Instead of teaching children to massage each other. Why can't schools just focus on teaching maths and English? It is simply bizarre to encourage pubescent boys and girls to intimately massage each others’ shoulders and necks. It is not appropriate and has no place in the classroom #comments-wrapper" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-…

@ForScotlandSake @Smiffysmifston @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft Looking through your replies, virtually none of them like them! Some followers if they don't care what you say 🤖

@InvernessTop @Smiffysmifston @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft There's a reason you only have 4 followers.

🗳️ Holyrood | Poll points to SNP majority 😲 🟡 SNP: 67 seats (+3) 🟢 Grn: 18 seats (+10) ➡️ Ref: 18 seats (+18) 🔴 Lab: 11 seats (-11) 🔵 Con: 8 seats (-23) 🟠 Lib: 7 seats (+3) My estimate based on @LordAshcroft poll -- Dates: 20 Feb-3 Mar (+/- vs '21) -- % figures in reply

@ForScotlandSake @Smiffysmifston @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft Ooooft, second time tonight you've hit that mortifyingly cringe note, especially as very few of your 3000 bots seem to come to your aid when you post a shiter.

@ForScotlandSake "Interesting data" = the biggest defenders of the union a few years ago are forecast single digit MSPs.

Ashcroft uses a non‑standard method that can exaggerate support for smaller, highly motivated parties which in this case means the SNP and Greens. Interesting data, but handle with care. 7/7

The Ashcroft poll that has excited SNP and Green supporters is problematic. It is very likely inflating SNP/Green seat projections. 1/7

@ForScotlandSake Haven't looked at your posts until now. This is some serious copium. Have you made a nice little den for this?

Ashcroft has published tables this time, but because he’s not a BPC member, this transparency is voluntary. He isn’t required to use consistent methods or publish full weighting details. So results aren’t directly comparable to BPC‑regulated polls. 6/7

@ForScotlandSake @Smiffysmifston @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft It actually is in a democracy and the Scottish electorate know it, which is why the unionists parties are haemorrhaging support. Enjoy fighting for the scraps with the fascists.

@InvernessTop @Smiffysmifston @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft The Scottish election is not a route to a repeat referendum. You might not like that, but it is fact.

@NiallFraser8 Fuck me, I know some occasional wintry precipitation is forecast in Inverness over the next two days, but I didn't expect to see a giant ginger snowflake hurtling down to earth and face-planting the ground.

You’ll be hard pressed to find anyone in Scotland as attacked as me. Luckily it’s by a bunch of know-nothing-do-nothing SNP supporting morons. See you all at St Giles this Saturday at 11am.

@ForScotlandSake @Smiffysmifston @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft Yes, 2026 and not 2016. Nearly a generation ago now, unless you're one of those boomers who like to pretend you were part of the war time generation too.

@Smiffysmifston @InvernessTop @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft Of course they would. Nationalists forget this is 2026, not 2011, and that we've already had the referendum.

@Smiffysmifston @ForScotlandSake @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft A Scottish referendum is coming far sooner than PR or actual Devolution to England - hate to tell you that.

@InvernessTop @ForScotlandSake @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft Literally everyone would say no to a referendum

@Kat_Says_Stuff @Malcolm_Offord There's a chance Edinburgh Central will do just that, SNP still 8 points ahead of the Greens there though.

@InvernessTop @Malcolm_Offord It actually depends on the constituency apparently there’s a seat in Edinburgh (north or central) that could go Green

If we want ordinary people as candidates for the Scottish Parliament, rather than the usual intake of airbrushed politicos, we can’t punish them for every unguarded thing they’ve said in the past. 80% of our candidates have never been politicians before, so have not been as careful as the usual would-be MSP. Yet still, the media have shown desperation, taking comments out of context and even picking out individual words to try and put them in a misleading light. Today, some of our candidates were even smeared by the media for being in an unofficial Facebook group of people who sympathise with Reform – a group not even owned or moderated by the party, which has over 13,000 participants and over 20 posts per DAY – for a handful of comments made by random other people in it. Our candidates had an inkling of the treatment they'd get at the hands of the media, and I hold them to a high standard for things they say and do as candidates. But I’ll not give in to such desperate smears. It’s all just Holyrood’s cushy club in action, terrified that we’re about to stop the gravy train in its tracks. They'll soon need to grow up, because we’ll be bringing some common sense and decency for a change.

@SheHorrid @jamesme36613203 Debz, I'm not sure you should be lecturing folk on telling the truth with 3 layers of makeup, 4 different camera filters and 34 attempts at hiding that lazy eye.

@jamesme36613203 She can’t tell the truth? She’s terrible at that. She’s wonderful at insisting on herself and seems able to catch a rugby ball. Her talent clearly knows no bounds!

Nicola Sturgeon gets an ‘impromptu rugby lesson’ from a Leith rugby team at Edinburgh airport. I would give every penny in my bank account to volley a rugby ball right off her dial 🏉

@SheHorrid Sturgeon would absolutely have you. You look like a strong mistimed fart would have you floored.

@Jacqui_C_ @UKaForceForGood Does Alamy know their watermark is on this? Someone better tell them so they can remove it.

@UKaForceForGood 🤣🤣will it be the same wee bitter crowd as usual? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿SNP OUT NOW! Join our Rally outside St Giles on the Royal Mile, this Sat 28 Mar 2026, 11 for 11.30am start. John Swinney is gathering his SNP march at the same time and place! We'll be telling him: Swinney Your Time is Up! We're Voting for Change! We're Voting you OUT! We're Saving Scotland! We're Protecting our Kids and our Future! LET'S RAISE THE COLOURS ONCE AGAIN! If you can't join us, please help our pro-UK campaign at crowdfunder.co.uk/spring2026

@fhirinn @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft Ooooftie, cringe: "followers" on X. Votes are won by doors knocked, canvassing, community halls etc. Not by posting your weird wee pics of Salmond from the 80s. Your bots don't seem to come to your rescue when you're pishing the bed in public.

@InvernessTop @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft Lol. 4 followers and you think you'll change the world. The SNP slogan in the 1980's was ...

@ForScotlandSake @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft However did the last referendum happen when Gen Z were still in nappies and Gen Alpha were but a twinkle in their parents eyes? You: "IT'S NOT IN DUR FRAMEWORK!🤬"

@InvernessTop @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft You're a fantasist. Explaining political hopes isn’t the same as explaining a legal route. Holyrood elections don’t create automatic constitutional powers, and pretending they do doesn’t change the framework.

@fhirinn @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft Good lad! Working on it!

@InvernessTop @LeftieStats @LordAshcroft Wee man. Get on with it then. Break up the UK with your team of economically inactive buckfast drinkers.

@UKaForceForGood Why is that poor, poor woman dressed in nothing but a bra, clown make-up, a misprinted union flag and a flat mitre football for a hat?

@UKaForceForGood "Speakers to be announced" i.e. no one has agreed to speak at our event in 5 days.