@LairdSummerisle @Danjsalt I recall some chap called Andy Burnham from the Blair years ago- he was quite good, Starmer should find out what he’s doing now and get him back into Parliament.
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This is not democracy at work it’s a complete erosion of national sovereignty and accountability.
I genuinely thought it was a joke at first. A guy who only arrived in the country in 2021, on a temporary student/graduate visa, with no long-term commitment to Scotland , no roots here, and apparently fundraising for his next visa just to stay… has now been elected as an MSP for the Scottish Greens in Edinburgh & Lothians East.
He can now help shape laws, spending, and policy that affect Scottish taxpayers, communities, housing, services, and culture for years while his own right to be here could be temporary.
This isn’t “diversity” or “inclusion.” This is fucking lunacy.
Scottish Greens@scottishgreens
🟢 @q_ueering elected to represent Edinburgh & Lothians East region! Q is one of four Scottish Green MSPs elected in Edinburgh & Lothians East today, taking our total across Scotland to seven - so far!
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This guy is here on a temporary three year student visa. He just won a 5 year term in the Scottish Parliament.
He is currently crowdfunding for another temporary visa
Mental. Absolutely mental
Scottish Greens@scottishgreens
🟢 @q_ueering elected to represent Edinburgh & Lothians East region! Q is one of four Scottish Green MSPs elected in Edinburgh & Lothians East today, taking our total across Scotland to seven - so far!
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This is literally one of the most interesting videos I’ve ever seen.
What an impressive young woman to hector her own teachers this way! What a shifty looking bunch the teachers are!
Alex Armstrong@Alexarmstrong
I can’t believe what I’ve just watched. Socialist teachers who are striking, right in exam mock periods, are being counter protested by very grown up and sensible teenagers DEMANDING that they be taught back in school. These “teachers” should be ashamed of themselves. Draped in Gaza flags, and flying far-left “Stand Up to Racism” and Unite Union banners outside a school. Keep your politics out of our schools and DO YOUR JOB.
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@JAHeale I just don’t understand how she can sensibly head the next GE campaign if her own seat is at risk.
Will be interesting to watch.
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Yep. The risk for Badenoch is that, much like our former monarch, she becomes the adored Queen Kemi, respected and admired by many – but ends her reign ruling over much less territory than with which she began.
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot
Without minimising the dire results for Labour, it’s extraordinary how chipper the Tories are. They’ve lost 500 seats from a low watermark, lost major councils to Lib Dems and Reform, show no signs of recovery in the esp LD areas they need to win.
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@BucketsOf_Rain @tm1fox We have 3 that are all EE gypsies or similar in my small rural market town.
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You never see a British seller now. Never give them money. There is an old vet in Sloane Sq still
Stakeholder Consultant@echetus
Reminder that all the Big Issue sellers are now Roma because the gypsy mafia realised it was a way to claim tax credits while begging, and took it over.
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@ariaclast Suspect a lot of them know (maybe subconsciously) they have no answers to the pressing issues, so they are just resigned to it.
A Labour gov with no money to spend and facing anger over immigration is just a tortoise on its back.
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Oh no, not “frustration and anger”! This lot are so tedious. Piss or get off the pot.
Kevin Schofield@KevinASchofield
🚨Labour MP who is definitely not one of the usual suspects tells HuffPost UK there is "deep frustration and anger" on the backbenches at Keir Starmer's response so far to the elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The MP says the PM's latest reset speech, scheduled for Monday, needs to be a "gamechanger" or else many more will break ranks and call on him to set out a timetable for his departure.
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@LeeDavidEvansUK Yes that’s true, but we only knew it with our heads - only when the results come rolling in do we start to know it in our bones, and even then many immediately start to find ways to block it out (not referring to you here!)
Good podcast btw.
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@Starvecrowfeast Of course it’s valuable when understanding how politics has changed over the last 4 years. But we already knew a lot about that and how dramatic it has been: opinion polling, last year’s local elections, etc.
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Why I think the media’s focus on the net gains/losses of Councillors is less helpful than it might seem…
Hypothetically, if there was a party that didn’t exist four years ago but won a quarter of the vote on Thursday, they would make enormous gains.
On the other hand, a party that was on 50% four years ago that dropped down to a quarter of the vote today, would suffer enormous losses.
Their net positions would disguise the fact that they are basically tied today.
Obviously, that’s just a hypothetical, but I think it shows how the net results do not necessarily show us the whole picture of where politics is today - but instead compare it with where it was four years ago.
So in addition to net results, projected vote share, actual number of Councillors won etc are all important.
To be clear: this isn’t to denigrate Reform. They had a good set of elections and topped the table on all those metrics. But to properly understand what happened, there are lots of other angles beyond net gains/losses which bring nuance to the results.
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@LeeDavidEvansUK All depends on what you’re evaluating.
IMO the relevant info we want is: how is the electoral map going to shake out between Reform and Tories? Last year one might have said, R gets midlands and north, Ts get south. Now R getting swathes of south too. Picture gets worse for T!
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The interpretation of these results for the Conservatives depends almost entirely on if you’re comparing with 2021/22 (effectively pre-Reform) or 2025.
Obviously these are worse for the Tories than before the right was split. But they’re much better than the 2025 results.
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Congratulations to our new MSPs for West of Scotland, Malcolm Offord and David Smith 🏴
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We must respond to the message that voters have sent us and break with the status quo once and for all.
We must confront the big challenges the public face with real answers.
That is how we will deliver the change that people are desperate for and build a stronger and fairer country.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Wonderin' how the nons are going to react in the next few days once the shock wears off a bit
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I don't feel I had ever seen or heard it referred to as anything other than the British Army until covid.
Yookay Army sounds like some sort of pentecostal youth group.
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@benarchibald @rpaton11 @HCH_Hill Interesting - do you have local knowledge of the seat?
I’ve been operating for some time on basis her seat will be at risk at an election, keen to hear if you have any intel on the point?
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Dressing a 500 seat loss as a victory aside, fundamentally it doesn't matter how well Kemi does in leader popularity polls if she is going to lose her seat at the next election. She's going to Swinson herself.
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This is insane. Teachers wearing keffiyehs and draped in Palestine flags are out on strike. The pupils tell them to get back to work
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