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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 1h

Pushed back to tomorrow fyi

Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very much hope this is the govt changing course and introducing the LDAN Bill. At the very least, explaining how they are going to achieve the aims of the bill without legislation.

Chamber business for Tuesday with ministerial statement highlighted

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who's attached to the group? Who's running the group? Who's responsible for the group?

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And yet not a single name attached to it 🤔

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also, no logic to say a third board would provide any better care, governance or value for money.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Michael Marra mocking “back of a fag packet” plans is quite something, even brave. He wrote Scottish Labour’s manifesto and at least the fag packet comes with detailed warnings.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Immensely disappointing that folk are either whining to the media without giving their name or that the national is talking to two people without seeking any contrary point of view. Some discourse, huh

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Again, 95% of everything in this article is wrong, inaccurate or a complete exaggeration.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No disrespect to the authors of this resolution but it is a total waste of an agenda slot. This is already the position of the party. We abolish the Scotland Office via independence.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

First Renaissance painting of the parliamentary term just dropped.

Some racists leaving the Holyrood debating chamber

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dr. pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

friends, if any of you are SNP conference delegates i highly recommend you rank these resolutions highly let's go make some good policy

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Declan @blench.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've ranked all of these very highly in delegates' choice and very much hope to see them all, in particular the first two, on the agenda next month.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Proud to be supporting many @outforindy.bsky.social resolutions this delegates choice and equally proud they're supporting many of mine.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Highly recommend a Sober September. Too many birthdays and whatnot* in October to successfully pull off said Sober October. *Fucking conference

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

3. Conferences committee is mostly democratic. It could be better as about a third are there defacto or handpicked but they did take a vote. Granted, improvements can be made. 4. Members can make their voices heard at conference regardless. 5. The lead on this is Toni G. Come on.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not on this particular committee but many inaccuracies here. 1. 50 branches, but not listed in any of the leaked briefings? Are the 50 in the room with us? 2. From what was reported, It wasn't competent. It was basically highjacking another resolution and doing a delete all, replace with...

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

See, we got this right a decade ago when we put in a moratorium on fracking. Did our research, consultation and passed good legislation effectively banning the practice a few years later. It's really disappointing that we've failed to learn from when we got things absolutely right.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran took more of a stance against Smaug than he has any other genocidal regime.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Love the little game where I convince myself I’m ready to come off crutches, hobble around like a newborn deer for a bit, realise I am in fact not stable, and return to them with most vexed. Anyway, the crutches remain annoyingly employed and recovery is not linear.

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dr. pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

kathleen stock believes that class is biological and immutable

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Could temporarily solve all council finance problems by actually enforcing parking restrictions.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Performed a perfect dodge by simply walking out the store

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But iD Mobile/Currys seem to be processing orders on Windows 97, and I'm now at the stage of trying to trick their system into accepting my money just so they can keep me as a customer. Would rather be torn apart by nevrons tbh.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And apparently, to buy a phone in 2026, I need a physical chip-and-PIN bank card. I haven’t carried one for about 10 years. Contactless exists. Google Pay exists. I literally got a mortgage and masters without needing one.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trying to upgrade my phone with iD Mobile has somehow turned into an archaeological expedition but not a fun one like Clair Obscur Expedition 33. Their system refuses to recognise Scottish flat numbers, so I went into Currys, who now own iD Mobile, to sort it out in person.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Expected but extremely poor show from the HoC. The more we have these debates the more I'm convinced of the immaturity of political debate and discourse in our institutions.

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dr. pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

category is got their windows broken again and are now fundraising to install roller shutters they're a really important place for the community, please help them out if you can www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Is Alternaleaf targeting matcha drinking ScotRail nerds? Cause if so, consider me sold.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Seen this do the rounds. Clearly distasteful at first glance and the more in-depth you go, the more disgraceful it gets, targeting young disabled women citing a "culture of economic inactivity". Bold talk about economic output from people paid to produce this crap.

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Out for Independence @outforindy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thank you to @neilmackay.bsky.social for this very good piece. There is a resolution on this topic, backed by Out for Indy, on the provisional agenda for the SNP National Conference in October, and we hope members will support it.

21. ABORTION LAW REFORM
Conference recognises and affirms the rights to safe and timely abortion care.

Conference reaffirms its support for its positions adopted at annual national conference in
2024 that the right to abortion should be enshrined in the constitution of an independent
Scotland and in 2023 that access must be equitable across Scotland with services available
up to the legal limit of 24 weeks.

Conference recognises the work of the Abortion Law Reform Expert Group, initiated by the
SNP Scottish Government in 2024, in developing proposals for reforming Scotland's
outdated abortion laws.

Conference notes with concern that at present, Scotland is the only part of the UK that has
not modernised its abortion laws to remove legal penalties from women under the 1967
Abortion Act and that, as a result, Scotland is not meeting international health and human
rights standards for access to health care.

Conference notes that women in Scotland have faced police investigation for suspected
abortions after experiencing miscarriage due to these outdated laws, adding to the trauma of pregnancy loss.

Conference therefore resolves that Scotland's abortion law should be reformed to:
1. Follow the recommendations of the Expert Group;
2. Remove criminal penalties from women who terminate their pregnancies; and
3. Create a health-based framework for abortion care rooted in human rights and equality of
access, not criminal law.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Excellent piece, as usual tbf to and from @neilmackay.bsky.social. For the SNP's upcoming conference, there's a resolution on exactly this in the provisional agenda. It's up to members to decide but we're optimistic it will make the final agenda.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Excellent piece. For the SNP's upcoming conference, there's a resolution on exactly this in the provisional agenda. It's up to members to decide but we're optimistic it will make the final agenda.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

‘Why is Scotland the only part of the UK where abortion hasn’t been decriminalised?’ Scotland is the only part of the UK where women can still face prosecution for abortion. I talk to the campaigners fighting to bring Scotland into line with England, Wales and NI In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

heraldscotland.com

Why is Scotland the only part of the UK not to decriminalise abortion?

As women’s reproductive rights come under increasing attack from populists, our Writer at Large meets the campaigners demanding that the SNP…

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is a core failure of the media and opposition too btw. The only platform that's reported on this is the express. Give me strength (and a decent non client state journalistic institution).

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's the easiest, cross party bill you could have imagined. Making things a bit better for autistic folk. It's written, you've got the consensus and could have passed it by Christmas. But no.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It frustrates me to no end that ditching of the LDAN Bill has been completely ignored in mainstream discourse over the Programme For Government.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Which makes a great case for actual ownership and a long term strategic plan about how we make buses: A. Good. B. Affordable. C. Sustainable. Not necessarily in that order because we're lacking all of those criteria. SNP members can back my resolution this National Conference to make it happen.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Some very interesting reforms re health boards. Combining all mainland boards into two is not going to be taken well in certain areas and communities. That said, I think it's for the best. Not to save money but actually make sure services are done consistently which just isn't happening.

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dr. pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

back from a few days in england - never really spent any time there apart from work and a few trips to london and now i have some Thoughts 1. a lot of people talk about feeling more 'british' the more time they spend in england but i definitely feel like i was just on a (very nice!) foreign holiday

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tories won't rest until as many children as possible have chronic lung disease.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Entirely interchangeable and redundant.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"do unto others as others do unto you" *2024, some random poster

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is anecdotal but half the folk I know who've gotten their ADHD or autism diagnosis, have done so privately or through community care, but under section. Almost everyone that I've seen go private has had their shared care agreements scrapped with no alternative or appeal. There is no care.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Please. You have youth. You have energy. Some of us have a 9:15 train and no executive function.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Grrr at all the kids getting Ubers to school and absolutely destroying the morning supply for the rest of us, who are already barely coping and simply trying to arrive at our adult commitments with the illusion of competence intact.

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Michael G @indymichaelg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Do sirs, in your cheap v neck jumpers, go away.

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