#Holyrood

Peter Geoghegan

PeterKGeoghegan

Did dark money and dirty tactics swing Scottish election?So I looked at tactical voting ads in #SP21 and found some pretty worrying thingsTens of thousands spent by anonymous campaigns. Turning

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

This is where the House of Lords could and should show its mettle.https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1302701541674160134 (a) There is nothing about this in the 2019 Tory election manifesto. Indeed that manifesto said that

Malcolm Clark

TwisterFilm

1./ A thread about a sinister threat to free speech that should concern you if you're gay, female, a football supporter, a writer, a reader or anyone who doesn't like

Steve Sayers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿in🇬🇧=👍🏼 #Scexit👎🏼

SteveSayersOne

7/9/20 Polling update. Don’t forget headline results of +50% LeaveUK (or thereabouts) EXCLUDE undecideds. Many polls now only use a subset of respondents & soft questions. SNP internal target is

Kenneth J Murray

kenny_murray

I first met Duncan in 2017 at the Who Cares? Scotland Summer Camp. I had just accepted a job and spent my first week volunteering on the camp site. Duncan

Patrick Harvie 🇪🇺🌈

patrickharvie

Fantastic to see @lornaslater join @AlisonJohnstone, both elected as Green MSPs for Lothian region! This confirms we now have 8 Green MSPs across Scotland, the biggest and best Green group

Conor Matchett

conor_matchett

IndyRef2, mandate or not?Three arguments here, that either a) you need an overall SNP majority, b) you need an overall majority in the popular vote, or c) you need an

Mujtaba Rahman

Mij_Europe

The most important vote today is Scotland's. Sleaze, Covid & even Brexit will soon be dwarfed by @BorisJohnson biggest problem - how to preserve the UK. Officialdom is very (very)

Hope Over Fear

hopeoverfear01

This thread is designed to explain to you how the unionists feel about Alba. We have attached an article at the end of this thread from a unionist perspective on

David Smith

DWS81926937

I listen to @TBLTalkMedia regularly, it's always great but this week was exceptional. It's the first time I've ever really heard the stuff that I have obsessed over at work

Eilidh Queen of Scots 💕✨

HEilidh

Okay fine I'll support independence again and MAYBE I'll even start feeling patriotic again soon.Scotland has proven something to me this election. Maybe the Scottish people /really/ won't stand for

Gregory Hoare

GregoryHoare

Alister Jack lays into Scot Gov in committee, saying communication between them and UK Gov has been 'one way street'.@ScotSecofState says Nicola Sturgeon didn't tell them they would exclude children

Lee Jones

DrLeeJones

Lots of people are probably wondering why UK governments were/are reluctant simply to use teachers' predicted grades for #Alevelresults.My @Cieothinks report on UK universities with @thephilippics, published this week, provides

John Stuart Wilson

JohnStuartWilso

(1/8) @AndrewWilson is now claiming that after independence "The monetary policy situation that we have now would continue until such a time that it’s no longer in our interests”. This

Danny Hodson

danny_hod

Talking strategically for a moment, what does yesterday's vote mean for Labour and it's electoral position in 2024: you could argue it doesn't make a jot of difference because we

Anthony Salamone

AMSalamone

The reporting in this article reiterates that the UK government's approach to an #indyref2 campaign could include pressuring the EU to intervene in its favour. Yet, that prospect is less