@JackTheCat It's going to have its head office in Scotland. Which means the board of directors will fly up from London four times a year for a two hour meeting, and the rest of the year a contract cleaning firm will keep the house-plants in the building watered.
Here is the (two dimensional) political placing of the parties in the forthcoming UK election from Political Compass....
If you thought you didn't have an awful lot of choice, the fact that all major parties are (on this assessment) siting in the blue (Right/Authoritarian) quadrant will confirm that suspicion
@ChrisMayLA6@melanie@PoliceStateUK It really irritates and annoys me to hear London journalists refer to #Labour and the #LibDems as 'centre left'. Objectively, of course, they're nothing of the sort -- but in the perversely distorted context of English politics, there is some (relative) truth to it.
But it's also really sad, from a Scottish context, so see how far right the #SNP are these days.
Delighted that I’ll be able to vote in the #ge2024 for an eco-socialist candidate.
I can’t vote SNP again whilst they proudly platform folk like Cherry in my old constituency. I don’t say that just as a “disgruntled” voter but as a queer Indy activist which picked up the role of an SNP branch organiser in her constituency after Alba defections.
The only choice for me in this election is the @ScottishGreens
Stopping support for the genocide in Palestine must become a mainstay of the forthcoming UK General Election.
No candidate will get my support in the election unless they unequivocably and unambiguously condemn Israel's genocide in Palestine.
The UK should immediately halt military support and arms sales to Israel. The UK government must also plainly condemn Israel's genocide on the international stage.
National service? Really?
No I'm not going to laugh. I have kids and would much rather they not get murdered for your arms companies chums and donors thank you.
Another thought, on #labour claiming some mystical flood of seats North of the border. Say that when it happens. We remember who did a better job of handling Covid, and if you had been in charge we'd have had the same death rate with London party telling "Scottish" branch what to do.
I'm really proud of Standingstone today. A baby was born here this morning, in the yurt we erected for his parents a fortnight ago. I'm proud that we have been able to give them a place to be, relatively protected from the stresses of the world, at this important moment.
But I'm a bit ashamed for Scotland that the best place we can offer to a pair of strangers in our midst, only one of whom speaks English well, to bring a child into the world, is a tent in a field.
Two more babies will be born in the parish this summer, both of them here at Standingstone, one to parents living in a wheeled shepherd's hut, one to parents living in an old caravan. Both those couples have one member who grew up here, who went to primary and secondary school here. Both couples are in employment.
But in modern Scotland, rural people earning rural incomes can no longer afford rural #housing.
We need to break the capitalist market in #housing. We need a highly progressive tax on property in housing and in land. We need to prevent the use of dwelling houses as holiday homes or as short term lets. We need to allow people to live in structures they can afford, and to help them afford structures fit to live in.
None of our political parties -- with the dubious exception of @ScottishGreens -- are even trying to address the problems Scotland faces.
Voters in Scotland remember this: for Tories and Labour England is the priority and will always come first. Scotland will only ever - ever - get what it needs or wants if it happens to coincide with what England wants. Use your vote wisely. #IndependenceIsNormal#UKGeneralElection#ukge2024#scotpol#Scotland
Nice that she could walk away...
For Scottish Trans people, we take all that shit and don't get the choice to leave it behind.
Not surprised.
At a human level, we understand and don't blame her.
But fucking hell, the naivety of thinking that would help. Ceding ground to transphobes, who celebrated her downfall as a victory and justification for their methods, only generated more abuse.
Abuse directed at those who cannot walk away.
Not to mention the creep of all kinds of bigotry into Scottish parliamentary and news discourse.
@peterbrown@GlasWolf How many folk are Singer employing in Scotland now? How much tax do IBM employees pay in Scotland today?
They are outwardly divested, leaving rubble and waste. No one invests in a country they do not live in to put money into that country's economy; on the contrary, they seek to take money out. If they fail, and go bankrupt, we're worse off; if they succeed, and pillage us, we're worse off.
"After so long in office, with so very little to show for it, you need far more than to rely on the mantra of “competency.” That is the bare minimum anyone should expect from any government. It is not, by any measure, a vision or a strategy for political growth" -- Jonathon Shafi, in the @TheNational
But which government is he talking about?
(I'm encouraged to see Shafi being more of a voice in #ScotPol again; I've ae been impressed with him)
Well done Ross Greer.
There is a reason we are now a member of the Scottish Greens.
This is the way to call out someone like Forbes, not for her religious views, but for how she manifests them.
The nasty types will use her Christianity to excuse her regressive beliefs, and Greer being a devout Christian himself exposes that for what it is. :progress_pride:
"I fiercely opposed a Kate Forbes leadership bid last year, and remain very much of that persuasion. I think she is in many ways a capable leader, and can understand her appeal. But I will never support a candidate that vocally opposes social progress, and have seen the pockets of the right-wing that this kind of narrative appeals to" -- Kelly Given
Last toot aged well, so the SNP have installed an openly homophobic (and seems likely Forced birther) Deputy FM. The press that have been singing Forbes are going to use her to destroy the SNP's progressive credentials and they will not have a defence against it.