Steven Camley @CamleyCartoons on #NigelFarage #ReformUK #ScottishLocalElections #Holyrood @Herald – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Constituency Vote? List Vote? How to maximise pro-indy MSPs and minimise unionist MSPS. The voting system used in Scottish general elections was explicitly set up by the Labour UK government in 1998* to prevent an SP majority in the Scottish Parliament. It is split into two votes.. constituency votes seats, whilst the Conservatives and Labour together won only 10 seats. However, due to their constituency vote success, the SP's 956,000 list votes were 'devalued' by the system and won • a Constituency vote similar to Westminster's 'First Past The Post' (FPTP) system (deciding 73 Holyrood seats). • and a Regional, or List vote, which uses the "Additional Member System' to select extra MSPs from a party list (deciding 56 Holyrood seats). A party may stand for list seats only if it wishes. The system is designed to ensure that the more constituency seats a party wins, the more their list votes are 'devalued' and the harder it becomes for it to win list seats. By contrast, the value of list votes for parties that win fewer constituency seats is increased. In the 2016 election, for example, the SNP won 59 of the 73 them only 4 additional list MSPs, whilst the Conservatives' and Labour's combined list votes - only 4,000 more votes - got them 45 additional list MSPs. How to maximise your pro-indy votes in May 2026 ... Assuming that the SNP continues to poll well on the constituency vote, the best way to maximise your pro-indy votes and reduce the number of Unionist MSPs is to give your regional list vote to the Scottish Greens who are best placed in all* regions to increase pro-indy list seats - vote SNP1/SGP2. * In rare circumstances where the SNP and Scottish Greens compete for a constituency, vote for whichever holds the lead - Leader1/SGPZ.

How to use your second vote in Scotland's May 7th election to maximise pro-Indy MSPs and reduce unionist MSPs including Reform. #Holyrood #SNP1SGP2

Let's put an end to the racist rhetoric in this country once & for all.

By voting for these parties, We can make it happen.
#Holyrood #SNP1 #Green2 #Sennedd #VotePlaidCymru
#AreYouYesYet #WhyNotScotland #WelshMeansWelsh
#DissolveTheUKUnion #Independence

Well @ross-greer.bsky.social, they say that imitation is a form of flattery.

To everyone else in Scotland, vote for the real thing and let's change things for the better: greens.scot

#Scotland #Holyrood #Edinburgh #Elections #VoteGreen #JoinGreen

Legislative Consent in the Sixth Senedd Over the course of the Sixth Senedd, there has been a substantial increase in the amount of law being made by the UK Parliament in devolved areas compared to previous Senedd terms. As this term com...

For those in devolution, this is an interesting read on the extent to which law making in devolved fields via LCMs has featured during the current Senedd. More haggard devolution anoraks may remember similar concerns during the 1999-2003 Scottish Parliament… #devolution #senedd #holyrood #sewel

SafetyStartsHere's comment on "Record | Reform's Holyrood campaign in 'meltdown' after three more candidates drop out" Explore this conversation and more from the Scotland community

Reform and their #Holyrood candidates

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Old Photograph Abbey Strand Edinburgh Scotland

Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of Abbey Strand in #Edinburgh. This street leads to #Holyrood #Palace, the official residence of the Monarch in the precinct in Canongate parish tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2010/06/old-...

Dining Room In Holyrood Palace With Music On History Visit To Edinburgh Scotland

Tour #Scotland 4K travel photograph and video Blog clip, with #Scottish music, of the #Royal dining room in #Holyrood #Palace on #ancestry, #genealogy family #history visit and trip to #Edinburgh Originally the Queen's Guard Chamber tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2026/03/dini...

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Visit my Political Defence Blog to find out what the #SNP GESTAPO won't let me tell you on social media.🤫
#Scotland #Scottish #Scots #ScotsLaw #ScottishGovernment #ScottishPolitics #Holyrood #Glasgow #Edinburgh #Aberdeen #Dundee #Paisley #EastKilbride #Livingston #Dunfermline

Bonnie Prince Charlie Painting In Holyrood Palace With Music On History Visit To Edinburgh Scotland

Tour #Scotland 4K short travel photograph and video Blog clip, with #Scottish music, of the #Bonnie #Prince #Charlie painting in #Holyrood #Palace on #ancestry, ##genealogy family history visit and trip to #Edinburgh tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2023/11/bonn...

Indy supporters: If you're worried that unionist parties might gang-up to form a coalition at #Holyrood, what you do about it is simple.

You get more pro-indy MSPs by voting as follows:
#SNP1SGP2 or #SNP1Greens2
NOT #BothVotesSNP
All regions.

FPTP Proviso:
If the SGP are polling to win, vote SGP1.

The former First Muslim vs. Peter Dow on "impunity" in international relations
peter-dow.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

#BBCSundayShow #ScotNight #BBCdn #Holyrood #ScottishParliament #SNP #ScottishPolitics #ScottishGovernment #PoliceScotland #COPFS #ScottishCourts #ScotsLaw #Scottish #Scotland #Scots

#Holyrood "opposition parties" instructed by #Westminster leaders simply cannot and definitely do not represent the best for Scotland they oversee our borrowed use of limited powers. That needs cut permanently; in its place, #Scottish only #MSPs directing progress "by concensus" to drive forward.

This model of attack politics has hampered our citizens for decades whilst leaving a significant proportion of #Holyrood as very well paid shin kickers and especially so blockers to Scotland thriving. I often feel "opposition parties" aim to deliver stasis with all the resources waste that entails.

That SNP Paki Bastard
peter-dow.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
is all for "impunity" for Pakistan's state sponsored Islamic terrorism - Al Qaeda, the Taliban etc.😡
#ScotNight #BBCSundayShow #BBCdn #Holyrood #SNP #ScottishPolitics

The Scottish Socialist Party are standing across ALL 8 regional lists this May as we look to elect anti war, pro Independence, working class socialist fighters to Scotland’s Parliament.

#VoteSSP on May 7th!

#Election #Socialism #Holyrood #Independence

Scotland’s Parliament still has too much First Past the Post When the Scottish Parliament was created, it was built to be different to Westminster. A system designed to reflect how all Scots voted, not just who comes first in each area. Scotland uses what is called the Additional Member System. You get two votes. One for a local MSP, decided by First Past the Post […]

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#scotland #holyrood #fptp #proportionalrepresentation

Let’s make #socialcare and #humanrights the heart of the coming election to #Holyrood. #SP26, #ScotParl, #ScotElextion. #CareCreates @scottishcare.bsky.social

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Peter Dow
#PeterDow #ScotNight #BBCdn #Holyrood #ScottishParliament #SNP #ScottishPolitics #ScottishGovernment #PoliceScotland #COPFS #ScottishCourts #ScotsLaw #Scottish #Scotland #Glasgow #Edinburgh #Aberdeen #Dundee #Paisley #EastKilbride #Livingston #Dunfermline

Homophobic Muslims are not fit to be in #ScottishPolitics - and neither are #SNP & #ScottishLabour politicians pandering to Muslim voters.

#Holyrood 's Nazi MSPs🐀 even try to rig their re-election by censoring us Scots online with false arrests.
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#ScottishParliament

Scotcast - Gillian Mackay: the election interview - BBC Sounds Scottish Green co-leader on 'rebuilding trust' with the SNP.

#GillianMackay The Scottish Election interview: #Scotcast

Warming conversation on 'rebuilding trust' between @scottishgreens.org party & @snp.org get fleshed out with rough childhood bullying explored & being the left most party at #Holyrood now & #ZackPolanski too!

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Newspapers often confuse #Holyrood and #Westminster in #Scotland
Funding here is #westminster

Wait till they hear about the #Holyrood committee room full of 'exhibition trans' individuals who volunteered to sit for an entire day to allow #MSPs to view in 3D & chat with.

Trial surgery demos, Puberty pause samples, coffee & croissants. Doggie bags of #Trans Propaganda & Cross Sex Hormones.

Call me sceptical. #SP2026 #Holyrood #election

Refreshing to hear a politician, Malcolm Offord, Reform UK Scotland, defend freedom of expression on the BBC Sunday Show this morning.

Meanwhile, the SNP GESTAPO witch-hunts Scots like me.😧
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#ReformScotland #MalcolmOfford #Holyrood #ScottishParliament #SNP #BBCSundayShow

Transparency of intergovernmental activity and its implications for parliamentary scrutiny Transparency of intergovernmental activity and its implications for parliamentary scrutiny

For those interested in devolution & territorial governance in the UK, this is an interesting report by Holyrood’s Constitution Cttee on the transparency (& functioning) of intergovernmental relations and the implications for parliamentary scrutiny #devolution #holyrood

Are #ReformUK Ltd. so desperate for someone to stand?
#Holyrood
#Scotland

"REFORM VOWS TO SHUT DOWN QUANGOS AND REDUCE MSPS"
@alistairkgrant.bsky.social for @scotsman.com

#NigelFarage's #ReformUK has pledged to cut the number of MSPs in #Holyrood and "shut down" the country's quangos.

#TheScotsman
#TomorrowsPapersToday
#IBPAPERS

Scotland has rejected assisted dying legislation for the third time. MSPs voted 69 to 57 against Liam McArthur's bill after an emotional late-night debate at Holyrood. Polling shows 78% of Scots support change. The fight continues.

#AssistedDying #Scotland #Holyrood

The SNP GESTAPO force me off X, & censor me in any social media site
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After a sleepless weekend in police custody and facing the .. threat of remand to prison, I accepted (temporarily) the draconian bail conditions offered.
#Holyrood #ScottishParliament #ScotNight #BBCdn