Labour promised to cut energy bills. Instead, households will be paying around £700 more.

If the UK government will not cut energy bills, they should get out of the way and put the powers in the hands of a Scottish Government that will.

On May 7th, vote both votes SNP for a government on your side

Free prescriptions, free tuition, publicly owned rail and publicly owned water are worth standing up for.

On May 7th, make it both votes SNP for a government that's on your side. #BBCDN #BothVotesSNP

Scotland is one of the richest energy nations in the world. So why are bills still through the roof?

If Westminster won’t bring them down, they should hand energy powers to Scotland. And if we're returned to government that's exactly what we'll demand.

Make it Both votes SNP on Thursday 7 May.

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Great to be out chapping doors with Fife North East @SNP activists, taking our message to voters that Fife and Scotland needs a fresh start with independence!

#activeSNP

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Astonishing that Liberal Councillors @FifeCouncil voted today against devolving the power to the North East Fife Area Committee (which they control) to be able to establish Short Term Let Control Zones and voting to retain power over them in the gerrymandered cabinet committee.

I want to avoid disruption to pupils' education that comes with industrial action.

The Scottish Government has put forward a fully funded proposal for COSLA to avoid these strikes.

I encourage other parties to join the team effort to get the deal over the line tomorrow.

Picture shows augmented image of Keir Starmer holding a folder which reads: TOP SECRET. Labour’s plan to undermine the Scottish Parliament. “Even when devolved governments may oppose this.”

So much for Labour’s promises to respect the Scottish Parliament.

Only the SNP will always stand up for Scotland and protect our Parliament.

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Influencers in Dubai: The entitlement, denial and moral vacuum in the so-called 'safest city', as war rages overhead.

Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC writes for The Journal:

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There were no ‘Local Elections’ in Scotland, Wales or NI in 2025 other then by-elections!
Scotland 2022
Wales 2022
NI 2023.
If you mean the local elections in parts of England, pls actually say so.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Against the backdrop of Labour and Westminster chaos, the SNP is putting money back in your pocket. Make it #BothVotesSNP on Thursday 7th May 2026 for a Scottish Government that is on your side.

🚝 Your SNP Scottish Government is putting money back in your pocket by freezing rail fares from April.

Even Anas Sarwar knows Labour are useless.

By-Election Result: Glenrothes West and Kinglassie An absolutely dire result for Labour bodes ill for their chances in May, and not just because their share of the vote was cut in half.

By-Election Result analysis: Glenrothes West and Kinglassie

An absolutely dire result for Labour bodes ill for their chances in May, and not just because their share of the vote was cut in half.

Local Government Election Results

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Glenrothes West and Kinglassie (Fife) by-election, 1st prefs:

SNP: 1167 (44.3%, -5.3)
Reform UK: 725 (27.5%, new)
Labour: 413 (15.7%, -16.8)
Conservative: 182 (6.9%, -4.7)
Lib Dem: 125 (4.7%, +0.9)
Family: 25 (0.9%, new)

SNP elected stage TBC.

When you hear ‘Reform’ claiming to be the low tax party, remember their 2 (and a half) Cllrs in Fife actually voted with Labour and the Torys for the highest ever Council Tax increase in Fife in 2025.
(A matter of public record)

If you want to protect free university tuition and not be saddled with soaring tuition fee debt like in England, vote SNP in May.

Labour can find millions to save industry in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - or even Belgium. 🇧🇪

But nothing for Grangemouth or Mossmorran in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 - what are they playing at?

Quite the thing to witness Fife Labour not only beholden to and proposing motions (about Coalfields) with the Tory’s but now relying on and negotiating with Reform to get their policy positions through Fife Council meetings.
#GUBU

Chart showing first preferences by polling district. In percentage terms, best district for each party was SNP 58.6, Labour 27.1, Reform UK 21.1, Lib Dem 11.6, Conservative 9.6

Map of the ward with polling districts coloured by lead party at the by-election. SNP led every district, covering Town Centre, Woodside, Pitteuchar, Thornton and Coaltown of Balgonie.

Glenrothes Central and Thornton (Fife) by-election results by polling district, strongest area by party:

SNP: Town Centre
Labour: Woodside
Reform UK, Lib Dem: Thornton
Conservative: Coaltown of Balgonie

If you missed it (extra, due to Bluesky crash) late last night, results of the Glenrothes Central and Thornton by-election.

Won't get to charting til late this evening, but final round was SNP 53.7% (+2.6), Lab 29.1% (-10.4), Didn't Transfer 17.2% (+7.8); pretty dire for Labour, this one.

SNP win by-election with more than double Labour vote as Reform UK surge The SNP have won a council by-election, holding the seat with more than double the Labour vote

SNP wins Fife by-election with more than double Labour vote
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Trump’s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags His plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.

Trump's Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags

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UK families will be £1,400 a year poorer by 2030

Things are not getting better.

Labour are on track to LOWER living standards by the next election.

An average family in the UK could be £1,400-a-year poorer by 2030, according to analysis by @jrf-uk.bsky.social.

HEY PSST! ZOOM IN. [wee text] Labour's £5BN cut to welfare spending is "austerity by stealth" - Labour MP Clive Lewis, 23/03/2025

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The image is a screenshot of a post on X by the account Jim Himes (@jahimes ). The post reads: "Last week, Tulsi Gabbard said 'any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of law and will be treated as such.' By the Trump admin’s own 'standards' everyone on this chain would lose their access to classified info and be subject to criminal investigation." Below this, there is a reposted tweet from Shane Harris (@shaneharris ), which states: "In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on the Houthis in a Signal group—and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of..." (the message cuts off). The reposted tweet was made 6 hours prior, as indicated by the timestamp.

They’re gonna move the goal posts a lot for the DUI hire.

Labour refuse to rule out 'copy and pasting' Tories' Rwanda scheme

Labour have refused to rule out a 'copy and paste' of the Tories’ Rwanda scheme for migrant deportations

Reeves to reveal biggest UK spending cuts since austerity in spring statement Labour MPs uneasy as chancellor prepares even deeper reductions that economists say will harm key services

“I don’t know how much longer we can go on pretending this is not austerity”

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