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#Holyrood2021 manifesto commitments to LGBT rights as they are published: [THREAD]
Up first, the @scottishgreens, who have focused on inclusive education, reforming the GRA, better trans healthcare and a ban on 'conversion therapy'.👍
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SNP manifesto on LGBT rights is lighter on detail. No concrete proposals on what GRA reform looks like, and no reference any more to 'international best practice'. There are however promises on inclusive education and on supporting Westminster in banning conversion therapy.
A thread gathering together core facts about the drug deaths crisis in Scotland. Following Nicola Sturgeon’s admission that she took her “eye off the ball on drug deaths”, just how big a tragedy has the SNP presided over?
#SP21 #Holyrood2021
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#SP21 #Holyrood2021
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Fact 1:
Scotland has the more drug deaths per capita than any other European country.
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Scotland has the more drug deaths per capita than any other European country.
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Fact Two:
Benzodiazepines are becoming used as a way for high-risk opioid users to self-medicate or increase the effects of their heroin or methadone addictions.
The situation grows worse.
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Benzodiazepines are becoming used as a way for high-risk opioid users to self-medicate or increase the effects of their heroin or methadone addictions.
The situation grows worse.
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A fourth thread in my series calling out #Holyrood2021 election half truths, misleading nonsense & lies.
I'm focusing on a misleading claim by @theSNP about 'ending period poverty' for women. Also questioning just how 'committed' they are to improving the lives of women.
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I'm focusing on a misleading claim by @theSNP about 'ending period poverty' for women. Also questioning just how 'committed' they are to improving the lives of women.
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I want to focus specifically on the highlighted claim, where the SNP are claiming credit for 'ending period poverty' for women.
This features as part of a wider claim about 'improving the life chances of women' more generally.
Date of their tweet was April 2nd 2021.
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This features as part of a wider claim about 'improving the life chances of women' more generally.
Date of their tweet was April 2nd 2021.
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➡️On ending period poverty for women
The heart of this boast by the SNP is the 'Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill'; which was unanimously passed into law in November 2020.
Unanimous! Great, so the SNP deserve the credit you might think...but wait...
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The heart of this boast by the SNP is the 'Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill'; which was unanimously passed into law in November 2020.
Unanimous! Great, so the SNP deserve the credit you might think...but wait...
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Before we have polls to indicate how the Alba Party might do in the upcoming Scottish elections I thought I'd have a quick look at what social media tells us about their support...
#Holyrood2021 #SP2021
#Holyrood2021 #SP2021
Alba officially launched last week, and since then they have gained:
⚫️ 8868 Twitter followers
⚫️ 1518 Facebook followers
Those don't feel like the levels of support I would expect a popular party with electoral potential to have. In fact I'm surprised by how small it is...
⚫️ 8868 Twitter followers
⚫️ 1518 Facebook followers
Those don't feel like the levels of support I would expect a popular party with electoral potential to have. In fact I'm surprised by how small it is...
According to @crowdtangle, the Alba Party have only had a total of 5126 interactions on Facebook (likes, shares, comments, reactions) in the past week.
The majority of these (2993 interactions) were from the launch day...
The majority of these (2993 interactions) were from the launch day...
Trouble at mill for the SNP (but also for Alba)
'Alba technical fault reveals thousands of names who signed up for party events' reports the Sunday Herald.
And they report a few interesting names. [1/7]
'Alba technical fault reveals thousands of names who signed up for party events' reports the Sunday Herald.
And they report a few interesting names. [1/7]
The 'breach' happened because Alba Party website had a flaw in its design.
If someone registered to an Alba Party event on website, they were given a unique 'recruiter ID'. This ID allowed them to 'share' links to the Alba event with others, encourage them to also attend. [2/7]
If someone registered to an Alba Party event on website, they were given a unique 'recruiter ID'. This ID allowed them to 'share' links to the Alba event with others, encourage them to also attend. [2/7]
"at least eight members of SNP's ruling body, National Executive Committee & its sub-committees appear to have registered for Alba events"
➡️Caroline McAllister - Alba 'recruiter' ID 1129
➡️Lynn Anderson - Alba 'recruiter' ID 1466
➡️Brian Lawson - Alba 'recruiter' ID 1019
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➡️Caroline McAllister - Alba 'recruiter' ID 1129
➡️Lynn Anderson - Alba 'recruiter' ID 1466
➡️Brian Lawson - Alba 'recruiter' ID 1019
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A few thoughts on why Salmond's intervention could spell disaster for the SNP, and Nicola Sturgeon in particular. A small thread as I gather my reaction.
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First thing to understand by way of context: holding #indyref2 is not at the top of most Scottish voters priorities list at the moment. The polling data is incredibly clear. Survation, Hanbury strategy, Scotland in Union polling (and many others) demonstrate this.[2/10]
Indeed, according to Hanbury Strategy's polling deep dive for think tank Onward found voters concerned the constitutional debate was distracting from other important priorities.[3/10]
New @IpsosMORIScot Scottish Political Monitor poll out today - bit.ly/3qkMYyE. Headlines and a quick thread on party trust ahead of #Holyrood2021. Main take out = SNP still streets ahead. 55% constituency vote, 47% list. (1/7)
On #indyref2 – 56% Yes, 44% No after undecideds removed. A couple of percentage points down on our last @IpsosMORIScot poll (the ‘bombshell’ 58% one), but margin of error etc., so main message is Yes still clearly ahead. (2/7)
But for me the most interesting bit is the findings on trust in SNP, Tories and Labour. We asked trust to handle same set of issues effectively, for each party separately. And SNP more trusted across all the issues we asked about. (3/7)
“Playing with fire - or trying to game the list vote in #Holyrood2021 election.”
There’s been increasing discussion about how to maximise the number of seats for pro-indy parties in next year’s election, with at least one ‘list party’ having already been set up 1/
There’s been increasing discussion about how to maximise the number of seats for pro-indy parties in next year’s election, with at least one ‘list party’ having already been set up 1/
The rationale is the SNP will pick up very few seats in the regional lists, because it will excel in constituency results (a consequence of d’Hondt AMS).
(Recent polling suggests the SNP will achieve another overall majority, so the below discussion may be largely academic.) 2/
(Recent polling suggests the SNP will achieve another overall majority, so the below discussion may be largely academic.) 2/
Some countries (Israel in past) had a next to non-existent % of vote *national* threshold to be eligible for seats (allowing for a multitude of small parties); others have an official threshold of 5% (Germany), which effectively penalises small parties which fail to meet it. 3/
