Guy Ingerson

Coffee and cake next to a printed map of central Aberdeen

A selfie of campaigners on Park Street, Aberdeen

A group selfie of campaigners in a pub holding up leaflets

Yesterday we marked 3 months until the Scottish parliamentary election with a leaflet run in Aberdeen, huge thanks to the new members who came along and got involved, watch this space for more opportunities to help send a record number of Greens to Holyrood!
#VoteGreen

Blue box with quote saying “Fossil fuel companies like Exxon cannot be trusted with people or the planet and yet political leaders have abdicated responsibility and let this firm dictate what happens. Big business is setting the agenda and trampling over workers and communities and our elected politicians are afraid to stand up to them.” “Nobody in either the UK or Scottish Government appears to have learned anything from the closure of Grangemouth. They are floundering around trying to respond to decisions by companies, rather than actively shaping the future of our industries.” Quote attributed to Catrina Randall, Just Transition Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Scotland"

Exxon mobil announced the early closure of the Fife Ethylene plant at Mossmorran.

This is a yet another example of the political failure to properly plan a transition for workers and communities.

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A stubborn determination to break the wheel.

"If it was an ordinary business we'd call it insider trading - but it's a government, and so it actually starts to look more akin to treason."

Was Mandelson "working against the best interests of his country" as leaked gov secrets come to light?

@maitlis.bsky.social | @lewisgoodall.com

The extent of the Epstein scandal is grotesque.

Many of the world’s business, political and royal elites were associating with, working on behalf of, and/or taking money from a convicted paedophile. The other abusers, his ‘friends’, remain free.

Where is the accountability? Where is the justice?

Exactly this

I don’t have a lot of time for politicians who suddenly care about the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people twice a year.

Especially when they have done everything in their power to damage it, either collectively or to specific individuals, for years now…

Your tokenistic posts on social media mean little.

🤣🤣 this is something…!

Parents tell us the Scottish Child Payment makes a real difference to their lives - it helps them afford basic essentials like food, energy bills, nappies, and children’s clothes. And we see this impact reflected in the latest figures on child poverty in Scotland too (🧵1/4)

A photo of Dundee City's skyline featuring a church spire, with the words "Dundee Housing Emergency Action Plan" beside it

🏠 Dundee faces a #HousingEmergency: 225 children in temporary accommodation and a 24% rise in homelessness.

⚖️ Will Dundee's decision makers declare a housing emergency and adopt the Dundee Housing Emergency Coalition's Housing Emergency Action Plan?

More info 🔗 shelterscotland.org/D-HEAP

I’ll dig it out tomorrow and let you know 😂

Scottish Greens rekindle ties with Zack Polanski’s party after trans‑rights split THE Scottish Greens have rekindled ties with Zack Polanski’s party after a previous split on transgender rights.

As the person who brought the motion to suspend ties in 2022, I fully support this move.

Huge thanks to fellow @sgprainbowgreens.bsky.social and @queerscot.bsky.social for their work in making this happen and to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for his leadership.

www.thenational.scot/news/2579359...

I know it’s crazy BUT I did buy a book on medicines you can make from Scottish plants… just in case civilisation collapses. I’ll be making shite in the woods 😂

Access (some won’t even insure these properties anymore) and affordability are a must. 100% agree.

Heavy rain and wind warning as schools closed and roads flooded A yellow warning of rain remains in place for a wide area of Scotland until midnight on Friday.

Severe flooding is becoming more common, especially in Aberdeenshire and Angus. Having visited homes in the latter that routinely flood, I know how devastating this is for people.

We need more nature-based solutions, from mountainside to seaside, for water management.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Majority of Scots oppose new North Sea drilling research finds New research suggests more than half of Scots oppose new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, including close to 50 in the north-east

⚡️Scots are ahead of politicians - 57% oppose new oil & gas drilling.

3 in 4 under-35s want renewables instead.
Even in the North East, nearly half say no to new drilling.

People want clean energy jobs, not more delay.

Read more in @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576468...

Making ourselves less dependent on US security, technology, and trade is a must.

Scotland’s future is a European one.

🧵 Trump’s Greenland brinkmanship puts the EU’s Anti-Coercion Instrument back on the table. Few cases fit economic coercion more cleanly.

But the ACI is often misunderstood. It’s not a bazooka, but a slow-loading cannon, able to fire anything from heavy shells to hot air. Here’s how it works ⬇️

She really is one of the best people out there. Love Dolly ❤️

Congratulations! Fingers crossed for a great result 💚

Brussels hold’em: European cards against Trumpian coercion – European Council on Foreign Relations Faced with an aggressive United States, Europe has more leverage than it realises. Across trade, technology, infrastructure, finance and people-to-people relati

[1/6] A reminder: Europe has cards to use against the US. Lots of them.

To cite some examples:

- Tighten screws on US digital giants (taxes, fines, even bans)
- Export taxes disrupting US supply chains eg pharma
- Exclude US firms from European procurement, inc defence

ecfr.eu/publication/...

The EU and UK’s policy towards the Trump administration has been pathetic.

High tariffs on all our goods entering the US market are now inevitable. All that grovelling has delivered nothing.

Collectively, we need to come together to defend Greenland and each other.

Don’t be cellotaping kids into wheelie bins then, Neil 😂

I’ve been called this for years, usually by younger queer folk. It’s an affectionate/respectful/playful thing, no?

Definitely better than being called elder. Nearly died when someone called me a “queer elder” at the tender age of 31.

I’m also very concerned about his enthusiasm for CCS. £22bn being wasted on this is maddening.

It’s incredibly depressing and difficult to fathom how we’ve allowed ourselves to get here again.

It needs to be a joined up plan that includes energy, agriculture, buildings, transport, and much more.

A plan that creates new jobs, especially in the North East, Grangemouth, and Fife where people are already losing their livelihoods.

I hope party manifesto’s include an ESJTP worth the paper it’s written on.

For that to be the case, we need more community and public ownership in energy infrastructure, we need more revenue raising powers, and we need sustained investment in energy efficiency measures to reduce fossil fuel demand.

All of the above needs to change and fast.

Government at all levels must intervene instead of leaving our transition to corporate giants and market-forces.

We’ve been waiting years for the Scottish Government’s Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan (ESJTP). This isn’t good enough.