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Start of election hustings article... Spokes/CUK Election Hustings #Holyrood2026 Spokes and Cycling UK are holding a joint election hustings, on Monday 16 March, for the 2026 Scottish Parliament election, to hear from Holyrood candidates on cycling and related policies. Rather than the usual hustings approach, which can be rather boring, our meeting will comprise several sections, with speakers undertaking Initiation, Interrogation, Combination, Clarification and Education, as in the agenda below.

#Hustings #Holyrood2026
#SpokesMtg ✔️🚲🚲

March 16 --> www.spokes.org.uk/2026/02/spok...

@edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @kate-c.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social @ianmurraymp.bsky.social @edcriticalmass.bsky.social @sw20.info @keithirving.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social @jennycooper.bsky.social

Image of someone driving a car. Text reads: Dr Karen Gregory on the Gig economy: new research soon

"We’re pleased to announce that in partnership with Dr Karen Gregory (@uoe-sps.bsky.social) and Boyan Karabaliev (@workersobservatory.org), ScORSA will be launching new research on the gig economy at our upcoming Road Safety Hour."

Feb 24th: lnkd.in/eCTyaqBG

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Greens prevented from discussing hunger striking Palestine protestors due to draconian proscription laws - Edinburgh Green Party If we needed any further proof that Labour’s obsession with cracking down on protest has gone too far, it is this - Cllr Claire Miller

Yesterday Green councillors called for the city to support the Filton 24 hunger strikers who have been held without trial for months.
🍉 🇵🇸 🫒 💚
Others blocked this as too risky to even talk about, in an eye opening moment for the state of human rights under Labour.
@cllrcmiller.bsky.social writes:

Epstein wasn’t a “bad apple”
He didn’t “slip through the cracks”
He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest.
Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him.
He was protected & enabled by institutions of power.

1/n

Here's the best explanation

Thanks to our guests @lezleymarion.bsky.social, Cllr Faccenda, @rosssmckenzie.bsky.social, @qmanivannan.bsky.social and @dastonsnp.bsky.social for joining us for the last session of the workshop, giving gig workers an opportunity to directly speak to elected representatives and candidates.

Edinburgh City Councillors meet food delivery workers in Workers' Observatory workshop

🎯 Getting Gig Work on Scotland's Political Agenda

Food delivery workers joined the Workers' Observatory workshop this week to build political momentum towards fair and safe gig work in Scotland.

You can read the workers' principles and policy demands here: workersobservatory.org/documents/WO...

More evidence of a convergence between our constituency and list vote shares.

More and more people are done lending their vote to the SNP, and want to vote Green on both ballots.

A strong Green voice is the best way to enable progressive policy, whilst advancing independence.

Screenshot of a skeet from Angus Robertson, the SNP MSP for Edinburgh Central and candidate for re-election, falsely claiming “it’s a 2-horse race between the SNP and Tories in Edinburgh Central” which is demonstrably untrue

I’m sorry to see Angus Robertson continuing to share deliberately misleading false claims 🤥

Greens are polling to win the Central constituency 💚 with tories absolutely nowhere to be found

Maybe he’s seen the polling and is scared to tell the truth?

Photo of flyer for Leith Chooses 2026

Today!

In-person voting for @leithchooses.bsky.social is open at the Kirkgate community centre until 3pm today.

Anyone who lives, works or volunteers in #Leith can vote to fund their favourite community projects.

Hot drinks, face painting & bike-powered smoothie maker also available!

A post from @bulgaria on Instagram, it has a blue checkmark, it depicts a rotund bearded man in front of a Bulgarian flag, "Learn Cyber Bullying in Bulgarian online in 4 weeks"

the Bulgaria instagram account just posts deranged shit

Scottish Greens ‘on track to unseat SNP minister in May elections’, Lorna Slater says

NEW: The Scottish Greens have said they are on track to beat the SNP in Edinburgh Central and secure the party’s first ever Holyrood constituency win

This is heartbreaking to hear about. It's more important than ever to take a stand against malicious misinformation from online hate-filled echo chambers. Solidarity with Edinburgh's Muslim and other religious communities!

Gig Workers' Platform sets out Manifesto Demands Food delivery workers in Edinburgh are asking candidates in the Scottish Parliament election to advance better working conditions in the gig economy.

New from @workersobservatory.org, who have launched a set of principles and policies to spur MSP candidates for May’s Scottish Parliament elections.

At their core is a demand for fair pay and workplace safety.

workersobservatory.org/news/gig-wor...

A bottomless well of humiliation

Edinburgh independent councillor Ross McKenzie joins Greens Edinburgh independent councillor Ross McKenzie has joined the Greens nearly three years after he quit the Labour party.

Locally and nationally, @scottishgreens.org are representing working-class interests and providing a real left-wing alternative - the very things I had hoped to do as a Labour councillor.

I will continue to spend every day trying my very best to serve the people of Sighthill/Gorgie.

Independent councillor Ross McKenzie joins Greens - Edinburgh Green Party NEWS RELEASE FROM EDINBURGH GREENS For immediate release – 8am, Monday 8 December 2025

🚨Breaking 🚨
Independent councillor @rosssmckenzie.bsky.social joins Greens

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Edinburgh Evening News in which they say… ‘police were allowed to run them off the road. Better still if other road users were allowed to do it without fear of prosecution’

The Edinburgh Evening News printed these lines on a story about antisocial bike use.

‘police were allowed to run them off the road. Better still if other road users were allowed to do it’

I don’t think this is acceptable. The normalising, publishing, promoting of illegal acts towards a group.

Most Brits I know wash their dishes in soapy water and DON'T rinse them.

So the filthy bread knife is hardly surprising.

Scottish Green members have voted to condemn the German and Austrian Greens over complicity in genocide in Gaza. #sgpconf

if you tell me that protesting the government’s complicity in a genocide is unbritish then i’m afraid what i’m hearing is that britishness is bad

Israel is piling crime on top of crime on top of crime.

No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.

Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.

Sturgeon and McDermid among 200 to sign letter against far right Nadia El-Nakla, Elaine C Smith, and Clare Grogan have also backed the letter.

Over 200 of us have come together as Women Against the Far Right in Scotland and written an open letter rejecting the far right’s racist lies about “protecting” women and girls. news.stv.tv/politics/nic...

Join us and sign the letter here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/wo...

🚲 edi.bike | issue 106 | 18th Aug ‘25 your weekly edinburgh cycling digest

Thanks to @edinburghminute.bsky.social and @edi.bike for the shout out to the work the @workersobservatory.org is doing in Edinburgh:

"It’s great to see a holistic approach to this issue..."

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Workers Observatory — We See The City The Workers’ Observatory is an Edinburgh-based project run by workers to monitor new forms of work in the city and develop tools and tactics to take advantage of them

Some big news:

@workersobservatory.org in alliance with/ Empowering Multicultural Communities Alliance (EMCA) & Citizens Rights Project (CRP) has been selected for the capacity-building phase of the Regenerative Future Funds in Edinburgh!

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i still remember Glasgow Labour complaining the LEZ was taking too long and should have come into force a year earlier, until a week before it was actually due to come into force when they immediately started demanding it be delayed by a year

'It's Time to Bring Back Scotland's Wolves' As wolf populations grow in Europe, Adam Ramsay argues that reintroducing the apex predator could help control deer populations and rescue Scotland's ecology.

Over-grazing means Scotland’s soil is rapidly eroding, damaging farming, destroying biodiversity, and contributing to the climate crisis. We need - urgently - to bring back wolves. By me: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/its-time-t...

It’s time for angry left populism In a time of oligarchy and climate breakdown, politics must be oppositional.

The oligarchs liking our planet have names and addresses and it’s time to stand up and fight for it. Why I think @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s right that we need an eco-populism, in @newstatesman.com: www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...