Cllr Linda Dorward

Dumfries and Galloway Labour Councillors, Linda Dorward, Davie Stitt ans Carolyne Wilson visit Dumfries and Galloway College on 26-09-25.

#DGLabour Cllrs visited our award winning #DandGCollege yesterday. Despite 17% funding cuts, it’s fantastic to see it's thriving and growing and recognised as a key part of the Scottish college sector
#PuttingStudentsFirst
#mission2030
#OneStepAhead

A great opening night at Wigtown Book Festival with one of the founding fathers
We never cease to marvel at the collective community spirit that enabled the regeneration and the continued growth of this Galloway town
#ScotlandsBookTown
#supportyourcommunity
@LabourLovesDandG 🌹

Great to work with @kevinlatham.bsky.social on this important report on AI in schools (and the last project I worked on pre leaving the ST!)

Private schools are pulling ahead on the use of AI, action is needed from govt to ensure state school students can benefit from the technology -

Scottish government scraps plan for new national park in Galloway Rural Affairs Secretary Mairi Gougeon says the Scottish government weighed up arguments for and against.

What a 'Nest of Fearties' SNP Government & D&G Council Tory Administrations,presiding over the managed decline of our region. Massive thanks tho' #GallowayNationalParkAssociation
for a spirited campaign👏

BBC News - Scottish government scraps plan for new national park
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A great night at the Türkiye in Scotland event at #DGMA celebrating the benefits cultural diversity & inclusion bring to Dumfries & Galloway. Honoured to meet Demet Kayaoglu Acting Consul General in Scotland
@TC_EdinburgBK
#adaptability
#resilience
#Innovation
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SNP vote collapses in East Dumbartonshire. Massive congratulations to @scottishlabour.bsky.social Councillor Aidan Marshall. Labour gain 🌹 👏

Visited #GracefieldArts today to view "Advance !" the exhibition of work by Advanced Higher pupils across our region Absolutely amazing work on display. Well done to all exhibitors, their teachers/supporters & #Gracefieldarts for a cracking display 👏 👏

Councillors 'undecided' whether to back controversial Scots National Park bid A special full council meeting saw members go for the 'undecided' option on whether or not to support the creation of a national park in south west Scotland.

Despite the predictable masterclass in fence-sitting delivered by SNP & majority of Tories, I am heartened that no Cllrs opposed progressing the GNP consultation
#InvestInDandG❤️

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Superb to view the completed 3G pitch & progress on the new build at #DumfriesHighSchool yesterday. Brilliant to see the investment in our young people through the Dumfries Learning Town (DLT2) initiative in action.
#LoveLocharLoveDumfries ❤️

As a Trustee,fantastic to visit #ScottishParliament yesterday to support #EllislandFarm & see the cross-party support for the SHALS project. Good to hear the debate & MSP's from our region lobbying @ScotGov for sustained support & funding for this amazing initiative.
#LoveDandG ❤️

Thanks @harryt63.bsky.social, I believe taking hard & brave decisions for the benefit of the area they represent is what politicians are elected to do. Populisim is a platform for party not region. @scottishlabour.bsky.social puts country & region before party; it's paying off for Dumfries 🌹

Dumfries flood protection work to begin in 2026 at Whitesands The move follows investigation work on Whitesands in Dumfries which has flooded more than 200 times.

Absolutely delighted I held firm & won the vote against the #ConservativeAdministration. A massive investment & much needed boost to the town's & region's economy
#LabourLovesDandG ❤️

BBC News - Dumfries flood protection work to begin in 2026 at Whitesands - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You use the same old tired arguments to defend @thesnp.bsky.social Scottish Government 18yrs of ineptitude & populisim. Some original observations about Scottish Politics would be welcomed without recourse to these. I'm offering a debate not an exercise in the use of rhetorical & derogatory language

Inspectors praise 'well-run' Victorian prison in Dumfries HMP Dumfries receives one of the best inspection reports ever given out in Scotland.

I've said it before & I'll say it again ... small jails work. A huge well done to the GiC & his team in #HMPDumfries
#impressive 👏
#hiddenheroes ❤️
#ScottishPrisonService

BBC News - Inspectors praise 'well-run' Victorian prison
www.bbc.com/news/article...

In DandG delayed discharge figures sit at 2,751 bed days occupied. Pre pandemic figures were 1,515.This directly affects our most vulnerable older citizens stuck in hospital beds due to a lack of appropriate social care.They deserve better than platittudes from the SNP Govt.
#ANewDirectionForDandG🌹

SNP using government quangos to avoid taking responsibility for their actions In his Daily Record column, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says the buck will stop with ministers if he wins next year's Holyrood election.

I don't think anyone outside the inward looking Holyrood "bubble" could objectively say things are better for Scotland under this failing & inept SNP Govt.
@scottishlabour.bsky.social 🌹
#ScotlandNeedsANewDirection

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It's good to start 2025 on a positive note.The #DGLabour Group are ambitious for our region & will work hard to push for inward investment that recognises the regions potential & improves employment,housing & educational opportunities for all citizens.
#ANewDirectionForDandG

Keir Starmer attacks spread of 'lies' on grooming gangs The prime minister says those who spread misinformation about child sexual exploitation are "not interested in victims".

"Once we lose the anchor that truth matters ....then we're on a very slippery slope", a spirited & appropriate defence by @keirstarmer.bsky.social against populist untruths.
#DontJustRelyOnX

BBC News - Starmer attacks spread of 'lies' on grooming gangs
www.bbc.com/news/article...

JohnSwinney ironically blasts on about the dangers of populisim,but @anassarwar.bsky.social in an aspiring & pragmatic speech talks about the new direction for our country under @scottishlabour.bsky.social Govt in 2026.Great to be in Glasgow today, the hard work starts now.
#WeWillDeliverForScotland

NB @thesnp.bsky.social Govt. @uklabour.bsky.social are working across party lines to sort this. A similar degree of humility North of the border would help reset the Social Care mess you have created over 17yrs. We have lost 14 Care Homes/or 200 beds in DandG, due to your lack of stratgic ability.

Local Derby at #OfficialQosFC a must at this time of year. Unfortunately, a late penalty for #AnnanAthleticFC scuppered their early lead. Refreshingly great atmosphere nonetheless. Good chips too 😋

Major delays on ferry services between Scotland and Northern Ireland Ferry services between Cairnryan and Belfast and Larne are busier than usual due to the closure of Holyhead port on Anglesey after it was damaged by Storm Darragh.

As a member of the #D&GCouncil A75/77 lobbying group, this illustrates why D&G & the UK would benefit from duelling these vital euro routes & investing in our deep water port.
#JustGetItDone

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Dumfries and Galloway Youth Work Team "Working at the Coalface" Conference. By front line staff for front line staff . Held today at Dumfries High School.

A great morning spent with #DandGYouthWork staff and other statutory and non statutory stakeholders at their #WorkingAtTheCoalface Conference. Fantastic to celebrate your successes and also to show my support for the valuable work frontline staff do everyday. Thanks for the invite😊

Hello to our new followers, here's an updated list of all the MSPs on Bluesky go.bsky.app/MuDEUwe

3 yrs and £28m later the Scot Gov attempted power grab from Local Councils fails. Is consistency, standardisation & local delivery, of Adult Social Care Services too challenging #SNP

#GrownupPoliticsPlease 🌹
#supportlocaldemocracy

BBC News - Minister refuses to rule out ditching care service

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay