Jack O’Neil 🇺🇦

@GavinLundy i want it on the record that i coined “land of oat milk and honey”

Today, I will cycle to Cibo to watch the people of Govanhill go by. Deep in Holly Bruce’s Green utopia of oat milk and honey, I will sip my aperol spritz with the comfort of knowing Anas Sarwar is a political failure and that more cycle lanes are coming.

President congratulates FM

THEY DID IT! Huge wins in Angus for @LloydAMelville in Angus South and @dawnblacksnp in Angus North and Mearns. Absolute privilege to serve as Lloyd’s election agent - no prouder moment than seeing the hard work of so many culminate today. #VoteSNP #ActiveSNP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🥳 Congratulations @LloydAMelville, a thoroughly well-deserved win! The energy and dedication you put into your campaign shows the people of Angus South exactly the kind of MSP they will have representing them in Holyrood. 💛

🥳 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SNP WIN! Congratulations to Alex Kerr, elected for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse. A strong SNP voice for the constituency.

YAAAASSSSS

Every General Election, Panini should bring out a parliament sticker album.

An SNP government would cut income tax if re-elected, a minister has suggested #Echobox=1777368719-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thenational.scot/news/26058667.…

It would be nice if defence was raised as a subject at one of the TV debates. It might be a reserved matter, but the sector is a major employer in Scotland, and some parties hold some wild views on its future.

The more I learn about the ‘pride in place’ programme, the more the cash seems a huge waste. Near me *one part of one ward* is going to get £20m! Ditto another part of another ward. £40m altogether. I think, for £100m, you could reinvigorate Portsmouth and its economy: fix 3-4 major streets, fix the train stations - and catalyse development around them - have local authority owning some space as an anchor landlord, conservation work, invest for tourism and SMEs. But that is too much like a plan. So instead we get Whitehall looking for disadvantaged places on a map and putting a pin in them “send £20 million there!” For what? They don’t know. It’s confusing national leadership for a spreadsheet. I BELIEVE in effective state investment. But when it’s scattergun, like this, and a poor social and economic return inevitably ensues, you undermine credibility of social democratic and socialist politics.

This account has just been set up. The profile picture is visibly AI generated. Scottish Labour’s General Secretary immediately followed the account and reposted the AI character endorsing Labour. One of the other 4 followers is a Labour candidate. Whats going on here?

Laugh at NatureScot’s advice all you want but you never see seagulls in the Rose Reilly’s mens toilet

Peter Mandelson, Anas Sarwar’s old friend?

Absolutely bonkers

The fuck did you think stopping a genocide looks like? Essays? Insta posts? Fucking loser

Spot on. We’ve come to fetishise “local representatives” far too much, a symptom of our politics becoming smaller and more parochial. What we need is quality national politicians. If they have to be “parachuted” in, and they spend more time in SW1 than the constituency, so be it.

BREAK: David Taylor, the husband of East Kilbride and Strathaven MP Joanie Reid and a former senior political adviser to the Labour Party, has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China. Here's what we know...🧵

The problem with large sections of the left isn't that they oppose strikes on Iran, it's that they're often not even capable of acknowledging the crimes of the Iranian regime at all. This is a government which has slaughtered thousands of its people and they just... ignore it.

But you weren’t sick of Iran soaking their streets in their own people’s blood? You were holding in the vomit quite fine then, I suppose.