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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 14/08/2026

CONSTITUENT SURGERY Pop in to speak with Steven Bonnar MSP and me about any issues you may have. No appointment needed. 📅 TODAY! 📍 Bothwell Community Hub (the library building) ⏱️ 11:00am - noon

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 10/08/2026

🏑 Over the past few months, I have received a number of enquiries by email and on social media regarding the possible future Community Asset Transfer of Porterswell playing fields to Uddingston Shinty Club.

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FAQ: Uddingston Shinty / Porterwell Playing Fields

Over the past few months, I have received a number of enquiries by email and on social media regarding the possible future Community Asset Transfer of Porterswell playing fields to Uddingston Shint…

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South Lanarkshire SNP @snpsouthlan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

You SNP councillors are out at South Lanarkshire Pride. Drop by the Hamilton Yes Hub to chat to us or catch us on the March!

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 19/07/2026

I don't get the drama around The Odyssey / IMAX. I still miss 4:3 TVs.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 09/05/2026

Keir Starmer is awfy desperate today. He's pulling Gordon Brown out of retirement yet again 😂

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 21/04/2026

Dedicated. Experienced. Local. Vote for Steven Bonnar in Uddingston and Bellshill on May 7th. #SNP #bothVotesSNP #ScotPol #Scotland #ScottishIndependence #independence

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 30/03/2026

🏦 With many banks closing (including here in the ward), Post Offices let you access cash. ✉️ You can withdraw/deposit cash & cheques for most UK bank accounts at Uddingston & Bothwell Post Offices Monday to Saturday. 📋 You can also handle some DVLA/Passport Office forms — and can even post a letter

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 27/03/2026

Smashing night in Bellshill at Steven Bonnar's candidate adoption night! Stevie's a true local guy and was the first person to welcome me into the constituency when I returned to Lanarkshire. He's represented the area on NLC and in Westminster. Let's add Holyrood to that list on May 7th! #voteSNP

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 19/03/2026

🐾 That face when your athletic career is over before it's even begun. 🛑 My 40mph couch potato and I are very happy that Mark Ruskell's Bill has passed and Scotland will join the vast majority of nations around the world who have banned greyhound racing.

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South Lanarkshire SNP @snpsouthlan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

💼 It's budget day in South Lanarkshire! 🔗 Watch live at 10am as your SNP Group co-present a budget that all of South Lanarkshire can be proud of.

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South Lanarkshire Council (Special)

YouTube video by SL Committees

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 24/02/2026

I am proud to have been involved in this process from the beginning. Full details will be available publicly tomorrow but I know this is a budget that will deliver for my constituents and people across South Lan.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 24/02/2026

Further proof that the UK government is technologically illiterate.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 06/12/2025

Get yourself down to Bothwell Community Hub today for the Christmas Market. Great gift shopping, mulled wine, and the all-important raffle!

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 12/10/2025

The Ambassador was followed by Sid Khan, a Scot who was recently held in an Israeli jail following his attempt as part of an international flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza. #SNP25

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 12/10/2025

🇵🇸 The UK finally recognised the State of Palestine just three weeks ago. At SNP Conference, we were privileged and honoured today to hear from the new Ambassador of Palestine to the UK, Dr Husam Zomlot. #SNP25

The crowd giving standing applause to the new Palestinian ambassador as he walks on stage at the SNP conference.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 11/10/2025

It was great to hear from Roz Foyer, STUC General Secretary at SNP Conference this afternoon. This is the first ever address by the Scottish Trades Union Congress to our party.

Roz Foyer speaking on stage at SNP Conference

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 10/10/2025

Quick matcha latte from Skinny Coffee on the platform at Uddingston train station then off to Aberdeen for my party's national conference. #supportlocal

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South Lanarkshire SNP @snpsouthlan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🚌 The guidance used to assess ‘safe’ walking routes to school is over 20yrs old and not fit for purpose — it doesn't even require a pavement. ❌ Labour have used that document to remove school transport from over 8,000 kids. 🟡 Today we brought a motion requesting a local review. 🥀 They blocked it.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 19/09/2025

Renewing a driving license online: £14 Renewing a DL by post because the online system doesn't work: £17 fee + £10 photo booth prints + £2.13 postal order fee + £1.70 stamp Why is the UK Government so technologically illiterate and why does it make a £14 application £31?

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South Lanarkshire SNP @snpsouthlan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

We have submitted an urgent business request to discuss Labour’s cuts to school transport at the Executive Committee meeting this morning. We demand that Councillors have a chance to scrutinise the final details of the cuts before they are introduced - this may be the last opportunity.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 23/06/2025

There's a certain cruelness in life that finding your glasses would be a lot easier if you were wearing your glasses.

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South Lanarkshire Council @southlanarkshire.gov.uk · 30/05/2025

Have your say on local alcohol licensing! Our Local Licensing Forums shape policies that impact your community. Members include license holders, police, health workers, young people and residents.

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 27/05/2025

Extremely disappointed to see Labour effectively fabricating figures and quoting me as a source. When my (simple, full election, not a by-election prediction) model had Labour narrowly ahead of the SNP, I was not yet showing Reform figures. I have never published anything with these exact figures.

A Scottish Labour advert stating that "Reform Can't Win Here" and quoting fabricated Ballot Box Scotland figures with Labour on 36%, the SNP on 35% and Reform on 15%. I have never published such figures.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 30/05/2025

Today's life management – getting Control Centre organised on my phone. Frequent controls on page 1, then a page each for downstairs/upstairs smart tech. Only annoyance is that there's no IF statements in Apple Shortcuts so my work phone line on/off can't be one button. #tech #Apple #PhilipsHue

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 10/05/2025

Sweltering day to rally for a republic on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿's tradition of popular sovereignty is much older than the Windsor rule of these islands. A modern, democratic nation deserves an elected head of state that represents and is answerable to us all. @ourrepublic.scot #RepublicDay

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 24/04/2025

Standing room only for Bothwell Futures AGM this evening.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 02/04/2025

Matching lighting on my desk, keyboard and controller are really tingling my brain right now.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 27/03/2025

It was devastating to hear this morning that Christina McKelvie MSP had passed away. She was an absolute gem. Even when I was just some wee guy in the party, she always made every interaction feel like a real conversation, not the usual political patter. My thoughts are with Keith, Jack and Lewis.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

We are once again talking about "welfare" instead of social security. "Welfare" individualises state support, when what the UK built in the post-war years was a social security system which served our common endeavour. "Welfare" is the language of tabloids; it should not be the language of Labour.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 28/02/2025

I've been thinking about this hard and I believe the world really started turning for the worse when we stopped making swappable fascias for mobile phones.

Four back and front fascia's for a Nokia 3310

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 24/02/2025

Your SNP Group believes you should be able to see where your Council Tax is spent. Watch on Wednesday at 12:30pm using the "SL Committees" YouTube channel.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 19/02/2025

I'm glad my amendment to a motion was accepted today and the the council will no longer use Twitter/X (other than to share vital emergency updates). We can no longer ask our staff to subject themselves to hate and violent/sexual material on that platform when managing our account.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 15/02/2025

I enjoyed getting out on the doors with Stephanie Callaghan MSP and other Uddingston and Bellshill SNP members this morning. It's vital as local representatives to hear from residents about what matters to them. #ActiveSNP

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 07/02/2025

You can't trust a word from Scottish Labour. I'd feel bad for Anas Sarwar after this five minutes of squirming if it wasn't entirely of his own making. Great work by Colin MacKay at STV.

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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar pressed on Grangemouth redundancies

YouTube video by STV News

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 26/01/2025

@marcjenko.bsky.social was there something juicy in the Mhairi B episode? Stopped playing mid way through now doesn't seem to be in the feed.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 23/01/2025

1. My name does have between 5 and 32 characters. 2. What about people with longer or shorter names? 3. The actual problem was that my name has a hyphen. The is web dev 101 and I can't stand that we're still dealing with this in 2025.

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The SNP @snp.org · 22/01/2025

🧵 Migration strengthens Scotland. It boosts tax revenue, sustains our NHS, and fuels businesses as employers and customers. Scotland is open, welcoming, and thriving with diversity.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 09/01/2025

Was out for a walk in Uddingston and took a notion to stop in at the The Rowantree Inn . There's not many places these days where you can sit with a pie and a pint by an open fire. Perfect for a day like this. #supportlocal

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 21/12/2024

Forget Die Hard, is Zodiac a Christmas movie? 😂 🍿

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 18/12/2024

Rutherglen Westminster constituents (including my Bothwell & Uddingston constituents), here is your MP being confronted with his own lack of principles Shanks was right when he wanted your vote & supported WASPI compensation. He's wrong now that he's in government & wants to brush 50's women aside

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Michael Shanks challenged on his own past Waspi pledges by constituent live on BBC

YouTube video by The National

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Callum @oorweephysicist.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Nearing the end of 2024, here’s a handy thread keeping track of Labour’s “achievments” in Gov: 👵 Refused WASPI Justice Compensation 🚸 Kept 2 child cap & ‘rape clause’ 🇵🇸 Lack of recognition & open complicity in Gazan genocide ❄️ Winter Fuel axed for 10m pensioners 🏦 No bankers’ bonuses cap 1/🧵

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 18/12/2024

#PMQs now: Badenoch going after Starmer on WASPI compensation is a bit bold. The Tories and Labour are two cheeks... sides of the same coin on WASPI compensation. Only the SNP have been robust in our support for these women who have been done wrong by the UK Government.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 15/12/2024

I'm at the stage of my Spanish learning journey where my social media algorithms have caught on. But unfortunately I'm not at the stage where I can understand the Spanish social media content I'm being served.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 05/12/2024

We can only hope that this is yet another promise Starmer's government will break. Labour's disrespect for Scottish democracy is astounding.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 05/12/2024

@marcjenko.bsky.social Listening to the latest ep. You sound bitter that you're in my 3rd place 😂 Love the pod, even if I am a weapon inspector (listening doesn't mean I agree with them tho)

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 03/12/2024

Thanks to @glasgowtimes.bsky.social for covering this motion, I'm proud to have written it with Cllr Frame Vapes can play a role in helping smokers quit but they are now the primary source for new nicotine addicts Anything to keep these fruit flavour death batteries away from kids is worth a shot

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Council cracks down on sale of vapes to children

Angry councillors have condemned traders for selling vapes to under-age children, despite being tested more than once by trading standards officers.

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Cal Johnston-Dempsey @cal.scot · 01/12/2024

🎅 Head down to Uddy Cross for Grow Uddingston's Xmas Fayre. There's a raffle/tombola. Free hot choc at the Church of the Nazarene I bought a wreath for my front door, a choc orange highland coo, tablet & a Muiredge/SJB tote bag Got something else but can't post that in case my wife sees her gift 😂

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