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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

💙 A fantastic few days at a buzzing @scottories.bsky.social Conference. @russellfindlay.bsky.social and @kemibadenough.bsky.social on top form, a great turnout from rural Scotland, and a focus on a strong economy and cutting taxes. Scotland’s true unionist party is ready to stop the SNP again. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🚜 NEW: I have written to John Swinney inviting him to meet with Orkney farmers when he's in the islands this weekend to hear first hand their concerns over the SNP's changes to greening rules and the impact it risks having for farmers, crofters and the wider agricultural sector.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It’s hard to comprehend having to prepare for something like this with less than a month to do so. My thoughts are with Jeane’s family and friends. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2583210...

heraldscotland.com

Former Scottish Government Health Secretary Jeane Freeman dies aged 72

Jeane Freeman, the former Health Secretary who became one of the most recognisable faces of Scotland’s Covid response, has died aged 72

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Just some of the things I’ve been up to this week on behalf of folk across the Highlands and Islands …

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

🎥 CHALLENGING the SNP’s Transport Secretary on the future of the Corran Narrows Crossing. Many local people and businesses just want a new ferry as soon as possible, with the hope of a fixed link in the longer term. But the SNP aren’t listening.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

“I would say to people worried about their standard of living, this election should be about independence”. (John Swinney, BBC Sunday Show) Your priorities are not the SNP’s priorities. They don’t care about what matters to you.

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Henry Hepburn @henryhepburn.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

A ‘school-estate emergency’ must declared in Scotland’s Highlands and islands as so many school buildings are in bad condition, MSPs have heard. www.tes.com/magazine/new... @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social

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Scotland | Tes Magazine

The latest news, analysis, investigations and professional advice covering everything to do with the schools sector in Scotland

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🎥 Under Highland’s SNP-led council, 53 primary schools and 11 secondaries fall below acceptable standards. I asked the SNP’s Education minister why, after 18 years of SNP rule in Edinburgh, they’re still failing to deliver safe and efficient learning environments for many Highland pupils and staff?

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I’m still shocked that LibDem MSPs sided with the SNP and Alba to block my efforts to put a legal duty on the Scottish Government to end rough sleeping by the end of the decade. How many more years will “compassionate” Scotland leave vulnerable people to sleep on our streets? #roughsleeping

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

As an islander, I’ve been a proud supporter of the RNLI for as long as I can remember. It was great to see them in Holyrood this week and hear more about their lifesaving work across Scotland. They really are heroes. #SavingLivesAtSea

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I busy week in Holyrood and in the Highlands …

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🚜 Labour’s devastating #FamilyFarmTax threatens the future of family farms and agricultural businesses across Scotland. On #BackBritishFarmingDay, support our farmers and rural communities by telling Keir Starmer to scrap his damaging tax. ✍️ www.whatlaboursaid.com/stop-the-fam...

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Fantastic day at the #GrantownShow. Good to catch up with folk, see some fantastic livestock, and enjoy (well 🥵) some amazing weather. That’s show season over for me. Another great year showcasing the quality of what Scotland’s farmers produce.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Encouraging signs that, as Reform tie themselves up in knots on issues like men in women’s prisons and their support for the SNP, voters are liking what they’re hearing from the @conservatives.bsky.social Scotland’s challenges won’t be solved by the snake oil salesmen of the SNP and Reform.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

⬇️ Details below for my 2025 MSP Summer Surgery Tour. More info at 🖥️ jamiehalcrojohnston.org.uk Please email 📧 Jamie.HalcroJohnston.MSP@Parliament.Scot or ring ☎️ 0131 348 6140 to book an appointment.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Al fresco breakfast (with company) ahead of the Lions 🦁 game. Lovely morning for the start of the Island Games. Only sounds are birds, boats and baas.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

As Rachel Reeves warns of new Labour taxes, a reminder that Rishi was right. “You name it, Labour will tax it”. #labour #government #taxes #tax #keirstarmer #epic #fail

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

🚜 A great few days at the Royal Highland Show. Good to meet up with old friends, new members and stakeholders from across the Highlands and Islands. Our rural policies announced by @russellfindlay.bsky.social were very well received. Only @scottories.bsky.social standing up for rural Scotland. 💙

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Reform must come clean on how much their candidate is making from renting out land for a large scale energy project the local community opposes. And whether his company has more land banked for workers camps or similar projects in Scotland.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Just a few of the things I was up to last week on behalf of my constituents across the Highlands and Islands.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Yep, it’s been a hell of a few days to be an @afc.co.uk 🔴 and @spursoffical.bsky.social ⚪️ fan. 🏆 🏆

A montage of Aberdeen football players with the Scottish Cup they just won.

A montage of Tottenham Hotspur football players with the UEFA Europa League Cup they just won.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

80 years since Victory in Europe was won, we continue to remember and to honour the sacrifices made by a generation who gave so much to protect the freedoms we take for granted today. #VEDay80

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Some of things I’ve been up to this week …

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

“Any pro-UK voter considering backing Reform in next year’s Holyrood election must now do so in the clear knowledge that they will be helping the SNP remain in power”. Murdo Fraser MSP on how backing Reform only splits the unionist vote and helps the SNP.👇 www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

scotsman.com

How Farage has made clear that voting Reform will help SNP

As John Swinney prepares for his cynical summit on the ‘far-right’ threat, it’s clear the SNP and Reform have a mutual interest in promoting each other

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My thoughts are with all those mourning the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis. May he rest in heavenly peace.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I voted against the SNP's #VisitorLevy and don't want it forced on communities in the Highlands and Islands. Not even a year since this damaging bill was passed, and the SNP are already having to make this bad legislation slightly less bad. They should admit they got it wrong.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

My thanks to the Scottish Prison Service for taking me around the site of the new HMP Highland in Inverness, and for the visit to the current HMP Inverness which houses prisoners from across my Highlands and Islands region.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

MSP Advice Surgeries … 📍 Friday in Muir of Ord 📍 Saturday in Fortrose More details below …

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

📸 This morning’s view from Balmacara. 🗣️ MSP Advice Surgeries today in … 📍 Kyle of Lochalsh Village Hall 🕙 10am 📍 Broadford Hotel 🕚 11am 📍 Portree Community Centre 🕑 2pm Get in touch for an appointment or to arrange a call. Details following 👇

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

They knew then. They just chose to ignore it. 🥀

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Matt on the Labour MPs WhatsApp scandal. 🥀 He doesn’t miss. 🎯

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

🚜 Pleased to back @rachaelhamiltonmsp.bsky.social’s proposed Equipment Theft Bill which will give farmers and rural businesses better protection from machinery theft. Too many across the Highlands and Islands are victims of rural crime while the SNP government in Edinburgh fails to act.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A ridiculous post. Aren’t you concerned that a jail that was meant to cost £100m is now going to cost nearly £1 BILLION? That should worry everyone, especially Scottish taxpayers who’ll pay for yet more SNP mismanaged overruns.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

What a ridiculous claim. I’m not opposed to new jails, I’m concerned that a jail that was meant to cost £100m is now going to cost nearly £1 BILLION. That should worry everyone, especially Scottish taxpayers who’ll pay for yet more SNP mismanaged overruns.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

John Swinney absolutely skewered by @russellfindlay.bsky.social on the spiralling costs the SNP’s new £1 BILLION Barlinnie Butlins, HMP Glasgow. It was meant cost about £100 million. Swinney and the SNP have their priorities all wrong. #FMQs

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🔶 The LibDems backed it. 🥀 Labour waived it through. 💙 Only the @scottories.bsky.social opposed the SNP and their tax-raising budget.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The SNP promised to dual the A9 and to dual the A96. They’ve failed on both.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Our farm’s VP for Pest Control is NOT impressed by this “cat containment areas” nonsense from the SNP.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

People across the Highlands and Islands face an increased industrialisation of their communities but without consultation processes they have any real faith in. There is a democratic and moral deficit.

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Jamie Halcro Johnston @jhalcrojohnston.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Good to hear @russellfindlay.bsky.social speak yesterday on why it’s only the @scottories.bsky.social challenging the cosy left-wing Scottish Parliament consensus of the SNP and Labour, and why only we offer real change at next year’s Holyrood elections.

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