Marion Robertson

Rent controls passed! homes are for living in, not for profiteering.

🚨BREAKING

40 years ago Margaret Thatcher abolished rent controls in Scotland.

The Scottish Parliament just passed a Bill introduced by the Scottish Greens, which will allow them once more!

This will keep rents affordable and offer safety and stability to renters. 🙌

Good to hear @ross-greer.bsky.social focus on the issue of problem public debt and CTax arrears. @aberlourcharity.bsky.social evidence shows low income families are facing a public debt crisis. Reducing child poverty must mean tackling public debt. Reforming CTax recovery is a good place to start.

Great turn out for campaigning in Scone today! Talking to voters about protecting woodlands, problem parking, & making sure school places keep up with the growing population, is so clear Perthshire needs a second @scottishgreens.org MSP! Help make that a reality www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/lets-elect...

“Keir Starmer. Stop arming Israel. Sanctions now.”

A message from Alex Lawther, Bilal Hasna, Brian Eno, Denise Gough, Khalid Abdalla, Juliet Stevenson, Maxine Peake, Paloma Faith, Paul Weller, Stephen Kapos, and Steve Coogan.

Scotland bands funding for Israel's arms dealers. A bomb with a Scottish flag is scored out. Scottish Greens.

✅Scotland is to BAN funding for Israel's arms dealers!

Scottish Greens have long fought for this change, alongside @amnestyscotland.bsky.social, @oxfamscotland.bsky.social, and others.

Scottish Green Party Leadership Election 2025 The Scottish Green Party approach to leadership differs substantially from everyone else, but a contest following Patrick Harvie’s 17 year tenure as one of the top figures can’t help bu…

BBS hub page for the Scottish Green Party's co-leadership election is now live. Unlike other parties, Green Co-Leaders only serve 2 year terms, but 2019 was the last time there was a contested ballot. With Harvie standing down after 17 years, big changes coming!

ballotbox.scot/scottish-par...

To emphasise how bad a 10% national vote share outcome for the Scottish Conservatives is, if they managed to hold Eastwood then that's it, that's their one proportionally entitled seat in West, which means former leader Jackson Carlaw stays an MSP but current leader Russell Findlay is OUT.

Stop Funding Israel’s Arms Dealers Stop Funding Israel’s Arms Dealers -

Tell the Scottish Government to end funding for arms dealers complicit in Israeli war crimes. 👇
greens.scot/StopFundingG...

The SNP have just announced that they will continue to fund Israel's arms dealers here in Scotland.

Since 2022 Scottish Enterprise has given arms firms linked to Israel nearly £3 million. Tax payers money should not be given to those profiting from genocide.

Chart of the above figures; note turnout of 24.7% (no change) and that non-returning Independents won 24.6% of the vote in the September 2024 by-election.

Cromarty Firth (Highland) by-election, first preferences (vs BE Sep 24):

SNP: 568 (23.8%, +6.8)
Ind RC: 503 (21.1%, +9.1)
Ind MR: 368 (15.4%, +1.8)
RUK: 348 (14.6%, +11.4)
LD: 290 (12.2%, -8.1)
Grn: 92 (3.9%, +0.1)
Alba: 91 (3.8%, new)
Labr: 77 (3.2%, nc)
Con: 48 (2%, -0.4)

Ind RC elected stage 9

🚨 The Scottish Government has listened to the 50,000 people who demanded they recall the approval of Flamingo Land's destructive Loch Lomond mega-resort plans!

Ministers will now consider the application directly, not leave it up to officials. They must reject it and end this sorry saga ⛔🦩

It's already been way too long a road back to the EU for #Rosyth but if it wasn't for your @scottishgreens.org sustained pressure with @dougchapman.bsky.social we wouldn't be here. Keep going for #Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

Courier headline which reads: John Swinney commits to removing final Rosyth-Dunkirk ferry obstacles. Pictured is a road sign for the Port of Rosyth

⛴️ Earlier this week I asked the FM to ensure bureaucracy doesn't get in the way of a new ferry crossing between Rosyth and Dunkirk.

📰 www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/....

YouTube video by Scottish Independence Podcasts: IndyPod Extra A Scottish Spring - highlights

"A Scottish Spring" covered the rise of polarisation in society, Scottish public opinion, civic & local democracy in Scotland, political engagement. It was a full day event so not every session was filmed in its entirety but these are some particular highlights of the day. youtu.be/iXZ7PByGONY?...

By scrapping plans for the third national park in Galloway, the Scottish Government has slammed the door on the economic investment and new powers this designation could bring.

This is devastating news for the local community and nature.

Read the article here: www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

How ReformUK is gaining support from other English political parties.

Latest from Electoral Calculus, mostly for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿: Reform UK is gaining support from almost every other party, particularly from those who didn't vote last year, the Conservatives and Labour. Labour defectors have decided not to vote, switched to other centre-left parties, or gone to Reform direct.

New Scottish Parliament poll, Norstat 27-30 May (changes vs 11-14 Feb)

List:
SNP ~ 28% (-2)
Lab ~ 18% (+1)
RUK ~ 16% (+3)
Con ~ 15% (nc)
LD ~ 10% (-1)
Grn ~ 9% (-1)
Alba ~ 3% (-1)

Constituency:
SNP ~ 33% (-2)
Lab ~ 19% (+1)
RUK ~ 18% (+4)
Con ~ 13% (-2)
LD ~ 8% (-3)
Grn ~ 7% (+1)

The @scottishgreens.org are the only left-of-centre party up on our 2021 result, but 8% to 9% isn't good enough when Labour and the SNP have both lost so much support.

We need a different approach. We need to be bolder in taking on elites & the systems rigged in their favour.

A clip from the conversation between @cluthaman.bsky.social and @stephengethins.bsky.social earlier this month.

The Independent. UN warns 14,000 babies could die within 48 hours under Israel siege of Gaza. Humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said the five aid trucks allowed into the strip on Monday were a “drop in the ocean” amid international condemnation of Israel.

The UK continues to sell Israel weapons and provide it with active military support.

Last week a Labour minister attended a party in the heart of London where she gave a speech celebrating their complicity in war crimes.

Petition: Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans across the UK More than 20 airports across the UK have expansion plans, which will result in a combined increase of 60%+ capacity. More flights means more emissions, at a time when we should be doing everything we…

The Climate Change Committee has said there can be no net airport expansion if we are to meet our legally-binding climate targets.

Yet more than 20 airports across the UK have plans to expand. Help us tell the government not to expand airports:

Today I met with Edinburgh University's senior management team.

The University's financial model has been dependent on the tuition fees of foreign students and now that revenue stream is drying up, they are saying that staff redundancies may be necessary to balance the books.

Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW -

Hard to believe it’s still a possibility after hundreds of thousands of people and organisations registering our opposition and umpteen failed attempts by Flamingo Land to ‘develop’ Loch Lomond. Come on Scotland, elbows up again and flamingoes down! @ross-greer.bsky.social greens.scot/LochLomond

If transfers can tip Labour past Reform it'll be closer than SNP vs Reform, but the thing is Reform transfers lately just aren't going very Labour: recent terminal transfers have been ~20% to Labour AND SNP haven't been far behind. SNP's ~300 vote lead therefore pretty much uncloseable.

Whoops, slight correction to figures (had SNP 20 votes too high):

SNP: 1039 (35.6%, -16.7)
Reform UK: 768 (26.3%, new)
Labour: 739 (25.3%, -12.1)
Lib Dem: 138 (4.7%, new)
Conservative: 84 (2.9%, -4.8)
Green: 76 (2.6%, new)
Alba: 47 (1.6%, new)
Family: 25 (0.9%, -1.7)

Complete SPT's Consultation by Thurs 29 May 2025, 5pm

We now have a once-in-generation opportunity to bring our region's bus network back into public control🚍🚏

Please support SPT's bus franchising plans to help make it happen!

Complete the consultation by Thurs 29 May, 5pm 👇
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We are not an island of strangers, but I have become a stranger in my own country

If this is Britain, I no longer recognise what it has become: a country of cruelty, of scapegoating, of hounding minorities and the weak

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Nakba Day. A graphic shows refugees fleeing the Nakba in front of the Palestinian flag.

77 years ago 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed form their homes, 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed, and massacres were perpetrated.

Today Palestine is again facing ethnic cleansing and genocide, with the military and political support of the UK.