Jonathan Mackie

Current status

I don’t envy ScotRail & Network Rail one bit, you can get away with a total closure of Central tonight and tomorrow but you can’t cancel all services indefinitely.

lads

my wife got me this as a real clock for my birthday last year, up there with the year I got an OnDigital box in terms of top presents, she/I ordered from these guys: hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com/product/2-id... (no I am not on retainer)

best one imo

this is tremendous

Introducing the wee man to the joys of a guy shouting “GOOOOOOAAAAALLLAAACCCCCCCIOOOO” down a 1990s telephone line, but rebooted

Please accept this hurriedly cropped gif of Douglas Ross getting taken out running the line as a token of my existence

eg the East Kilbride MP du jour spent 8 years as a cooncillor in Lewisham before being shoved into Lanarkshire, McSweeney’s Mrs was one in Lambeth before arriving back in the Big L too, you can go through them all on wiki and tick off every London borough as you do.

Labour urged to listen to progressive voters or face ‘political earthquake’ in London Exclusive: Senior party figures share data suggesting Green surge could put Labour in fourth place in capital in May

There’s an unholy proportion of hollow, unprincipled Labour MPs who move to London, end up borough councillors then get parachuted back to the provincial constituencies, would be very funny if that pipeline got wrecked www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

George Orwell and his life can be debated endlessly but there is absolutely no doubt the man knew how to make tea

a man is making a funny face with his mouth open and looking at the camera . ALT: a man is making a funny face with his mouth open and looking at the camera .

In living colour

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screencap of a spectator article by a dafty headlined "Keep an eye on Joani Reid - She's going places"

China?

no that was the blockchain one, the former EK MP set up the APPG on Crypto and Digital Assets

just waiting for the APPG for Crypto Bros to get re-established by the previous MP when she gets a safe Tory seat elsewhere!

Joani Reid was the first user to block on me on here, I'm not saying today's events are connected but 台湾独立自由万岁.

No, Scottish Parliament, the Electoral Commission doesn't run elections either, thankfully.

every time one of these markets dissembles and parses and weasels their way out of paying people on a technicality my heart grows three sizes like the grinch. i love to watch these people get scammed on crypto and nfts and gambling. they deserve it and it's funny and it's not my problem at all

Yup. Any excuse. One of the funniest things ever broadcast. And a masterpiece of commitment.

As Democracy Volunteers are the source of the claim of "Family Voting" in the Gorton & Denton by election, I got curious about their claims and thanks to @joenoonan.bsky.social I came across this claim about "Family Voting" during the 2020 Irish General Election.

A brief 🧵

Lmao

pulling in the punters

You have to say setting polling day for the by-election the day before Scottish Labour have their big election campaign launch conference, knowing there was a fair chance they would lose and therefore destroy any buzz it would've given SLab activists is top, top trolling.

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 FINAL SCOOP POLL BEFORE MAY IS OUT

Crosstabs here: scottishelections.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Trends since 2021 with our final numbers 👇🏻

More on our Public Opinion Dashboard: scottishelections.ac.uk/dashboard/

My "not a branch office" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

A 2023 tweet: every european election The People’s Democrats (center-right) 31 per cent Soviet Worker’s Party (center/center-left) 22 per cent Citizen’s Forum (fascist) 19% Wow! (Center) 11 per cent Friendship is Magic (left) - nine per cent Green Partt - eight per cent

This remains a good, tongue in cheek guide, though the centre-right is doing worse across the board than it was then, while the Greens are taking the “Friendship is Magic” vote in addition to their traditional core.

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2...

they also say in their statement, "one voter being authorised to vote despite them already having been marked as voted earlier in the day" THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, it's a tendered ballot paper and it means the Returning Officer will put it aside and sort it out later.