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Lorna Slater

@lornaslater.bsky.social
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Edinburgh Central MSP | Scottish Greens | She/Her | DMs not open.

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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We need to properly understand the risks of AI datacentres. @scottishgreens.org @edinburghgreens.bsky.social
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Argyle House is a unique part of Edinburgh Central. We need to keep it to support tech and creative start ups in the heart of Edinburgh. @edinburghgreens.bsky.social
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great that Edinburgh is becoming a cycling city, but we've got some work to do to improve cycling infrastructure and stop illegal e-bikes so that everyone can be safe. @edinburghgreens.bsky.social
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We need a moratorium on AI datacentres until we can understand the full impacts on our grid, our communities and our environment. @scottishgreens.org
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Support Old Town residents; support a cruise ship levy!
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I held my first Edinburgh Central Surgery today. Thank you to @cllrcmiller.bsky.social for hosting and to the constituents who dropped in to chat. I'll be holding these regularly, so stay tuned for details.
Lorna's face with a poster of Councillor Claire Miller behind her.
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'm hiring! 2 caseworker posts please see Parliament jobs.
Photo of Lorna with text banners.
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I'm hiring! Come and join my amazing team in Edinburgh Central. I'm hiring a full time (30hrs) and a part time (22.5hrs) Casework & Constituency officer.
Poster advertising Lorna Slater's Casework and Constituency Officer job
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I love being the species champion for the Northern Damselfly. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Nature Restoration volunteering this summer.
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Edinburgh Greens @edinburghgreens.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
People power will decide these council by-elections. That's why we need YOUR help. Knocking doors and delivering leaflets can elect two Green councillors and bring fresh energy to the city's politics.
Graphic with two parts. Top part has text: Heading: Help elect an extra 2 Scottish Greens Councillors for Edinburgh. Paragraph text: Be part of bringing change to Edinburgh. Find your role by filling out our volunteer form at edinburgh.greens.scot. Bottom part has a photo of our candidates and incumbent ward councillors.
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
@countbinface.bsky.social representing the UK today. Thank you for your work.
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Giving the Scottish Ombudsman powers to investigate would help deliver better public services in Scotland. @scottishgreens.org
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Labour's position on independence is.... confused. @scottishgreens.org
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Edinburgh needs a safe drug consumption facility. We need to save lives. @scottishgreens.org @edinburghgreens.bsky.social
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
10 things the new Prime Minister needs to do urgently!
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Wool is a great sustainable material, with so many uses. Scotland needs a Wool Strategy!
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Scotland needs a Wool Strategy! There are so many uses for this wonderful sustainable fibre.
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Nature Champions @naturechampions.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
📣 Nature Champions News! 📣 @lornaslater.bsky.social is the #NatureChampion for the Northern Damselfly Lorna will work with @britishdragonflies.bsky.social to champion these endangered damselflies in the Scottish Parliament. Read More: www.scotlink.org/species/nort... 📸Damian Pinguey
Image of Lorna Slater MSPImage of a Northern Damselfly on a leaf
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Scotland needs a national Wool Strategy! Write to your MSPs and Scottish.Ministers@gov.scot to ask the First Minister to create one.
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A Wool Strategy for Scotland, you can write in to ask the Scottish Government to create one. Scottish.Ministers@gov.scot
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 03/06/2026
Edinburgh Central MSP Lorna Slater will be our Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Public Service Reform.
Lorna Slater. Public Service Reform
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Edinburgh Greens @edinburghgreens.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Scottish Greens are "in for the win" as 2 by-elections are announced in Edinburgh edinburgh.greens.scot/news/scottis...
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Scottish Greens say they are "in for the win" as 2 by-elections are announced in Edinburgh today. - Edinburgh Green Party
Green councillors have welcomed the by-elections, claiming that they are in a strong position to win by-elections in Edinburg
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Edinburgh Central and North Edinburgh and Leith working together! Thank you @benmacpherson.bsky.social for your time
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 08/05/2026
🟢 @lornaslater.bsky.social elected to represent Edinburgh Central! Lorna is the first Scottish Green MSP to be elected today, and the first Scottish Green constituency MSP to be elected ever!
Elected. Lorna Slater. Edinburgh Central.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
BREAKING: The Scottish Greens have taken Edinburgh Central, the party’s first-ever constituency victory in a Scottish parliament election Lorna Slater’s win means that Angus Robertson, the SNP’s campaign director and culture secretary going into the election, is unlikely to return to Holyrood
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Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Another reminder, for everyone voting tomorrow. Vote for the real Scottish Greens - be sure to avoid the far-right spoiler candidates standing as fake greens. Look for "Scottish Green Party" and our logo!
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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 06/05/2026
A reminder that if you appreciate my work - I have fit covering *three* polls around my day job today, am about to head off to be on Scotland Tonight, and will be doing MORE analysis the second I get home, please consider donating to support BBS here. Any support is immensely gratefully received!
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Donate to BallotBoxScot via Liberapay
Support BallotBoxScot's work with a recurrent donation.
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South West Edinburgh Greens @swedingreens.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Getting the @scottishgreens.org message out for @lornaslater.bsky.social in Fountainbridge today. #VoteScottishGreens.
Man delivering a leaflet to vote for Lorna Slater.
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Chas Booth (he/him) @chasbooth.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Another positive door-knocking session in Bruntsfield today w. @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social & others. Lots of #BothVotesGreen in Edinburgh Central & folk keen to elect @lornaslater.bsky.social in constituency. Many postal voters already voted Green. 💚✅🌿🌻 #activegreens #votegreen
Photo of Green activists holding a clipboard with a Scottish Greens logo with Bruntsfield Place in the background.
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Chas Booth (he/him) @chasbooth.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Amazing turnout for #BothVotesGreen door knocking in Bruntsfield yesterday. Real energy in the campaign and momentum to elect @lornaslater.bsky.social as the first @scottishgreens.org constituency MSP in Edinburgh Central. #ActiveGreens #VoteGreen
Photo of Green activists holding 'Vote Green' posters.
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South West Edinburgh Greens @swedingreens.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Thanks to our @edinburghgreens.bsky.social team out knocking doors in Gorgie tonight on behalf of @scottishgreens.org Edinburgh Central candidate @lornaslater.bsky.social. People are enthused about the prospect of Lorna winning here! #VoteScottishGreens
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🚌If we are serious about tackling inequality, cutting emissions and building a fairer Scotland, then we need to extend free bus travel to more people www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
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Public transport is a public good, and should be for free - Lorna Slater
There is something quietly transformative about stepping onto a bus and not worrying about the cost of the fare. For hundreds of thousands of young people across Scotland, that is already a reality an...
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Kate Nevens (she/her) @katenevens.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Community hubs like @weightogo.bsky.social are such a huge asset to Edinburgh & Leith 🌱 Visit, support our local circular, sustainable and ethical businesses, and keep war profiteering out of our everyday lives. @qmanivannan.bsky.social @lornaslater.bsky.social @edinburghgreens.bsky.social
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We can do this! 💚
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🧵So it wasn't just me that was disappointed by Labour's manifesto. Not only are they battling in a 4 way split for the unionist vote, they have abandoned workers, and LGBT people as well.
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FSB Scotland @fsbscotland.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Today @lornaslater.bsky.social tells us what @scottishgreens.org would do for our small businesses. Ahead of next month's Scottish elections, we asked all the main parties how they would support small firms. More here 👇 www.fsb.org.uk/membership/s...
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Scottish Labour Against Bigotry @slabcampaign.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
With enormous regret, SLAB is today advising supporters not to vote for ANY Scottish Labour candidate in this election. There are several pro-trans Labour candidates standing on 7 May, but a vote for them would now sadly be an endorsement of explicit transphobia. #NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🌳 First ever Friends of Holyrood Park event was a great success. If you have an interest in the park please join us: bit.ly/FOHPmembership
Lorna and over 20 volunteers in sunny Holyrood Park holding litter pickers and bags.
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🌳Tree planting and greenspaces should be a requirement for developers. If we are serious about improving public health, tackling the climate crisis and building better places to live, then this is a simple, practical step that we cannot afford to ignore.
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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
EXC: It would be 'quite difficult' for the Scottish Greens to join any future SNP government given the party's backsliding on climate issues, former co-leader @lornaslater.bsky.social told The Herald. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2600430...
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Bute House Agreement 2.0 would be 'difficult' because of SNP backsliding, Slater says
Ms Slater, who is seeking to become the party’s first constituency MSP, is locked in a pitched electoral battle with SNP minister Angus…
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
⏰ A shorter working week also speaks to the kind of country we want to build. Scotland already has longer working hours than many of our European neighbours. That comes at a cost, to our mental health, to our families and to our communities. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
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Why Scotland needs a four-day working week - Lorna Slater
There is a quiet revolution taking place in how we think about work. For generations, the five-day working week has been treated as fixed, almost natural. But just as past generations fought for weekends, for paid holidays and for safer workplaces, we now stand on the brink of the next step forward, a four-day working week.
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We want to work with trade unions and employers across Scotland to promote and normalise the benefits of a four-day working week, with no loss of pay ✅
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Edinburgh Greens @edinburghgreens.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Join us this Sunday with special guest Natalie Bennett to help elect @lornaslater.bsky.social in Edinburgh Central! It's just over a month until the election, so every conversation counts to get even more @scottishgreens.org elected to the Scottish Parliament. @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Graphic promoting city-centre doorknocking with Lorna Slater, MSP candidate for Edinburgh Central and Natalie Bennett, former GPEW leader. 

Text below says: Come along and meet fellow Green supporters at our big day out with our Green MSP candidate. Natalie Bennett will join us to knock on doors, speak with our neighbours and get the out the Green vote for Scottish Parliament election
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
💚Scottish Greens have pledged to increase the Scottish Child Payment by over 40% from £28.20 to £40 per week, with a commitment to raise it to at least £55 by 2030, in a major boost for families facing rising costs and poverty greens.scot/news/scottis...
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Scottish Greens pledge major boost to Scottish Child Payment
Scottish Greens pledge major boost to Scottish Child Payment - The Scottish Greens have pledged to increase the Scottish Child Payment by over 40%  from £28.20 to £40 per week, with a commitment to ra...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Looking forward to joining @scottishgreens.org with the brilliant @lornaslater.bsky.social on Sunday in Edinburgh Central - great chance to win our first constituency seat in the Scottish Parliament edinburgh.greens.scot/events/knock...
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City Centre door-knocking with Lorna Slater and Natalie Bennett - Edinburgh Green Party
Make history by helping secure the Scottish Greens first ever constituency victory by joining Natalie Bennet and Lorna Slater, solidifying our support in the City Centre. Meet at the edge of The Meado...
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Dignity in Dying @dignityindying.org.uk · 17/03/2026
Lorna Slater MSP talks movingly about her terminally ill father, describing his assisted death as "beautiful".
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
📰"You should not be jetting off on your summer holidays, with your plane parked next to an American fighter jet preparing to commit further bloodshed." Link below to my article on Trumps attacks on Iran via Scotland ⤵️
Edinburgh Evening News Headline "Scotland should not be a staging post for US war - Lorna Slater" followed by a photo of an US Airforce Plane at Prestwick Airport.
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
These revelations show the rotten boys’ club culture of entitlement, cronyism and cover-up that still sits at the heart of Westminster politics ❌ greens.scot/news/starmer...
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Starmer's position is untenable
Starmer's position is untenable - Greens call on Keir Starmer to resign over Mandelson scandal.
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Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Straight up racism from Reform on the BBC, who's surprised ☹️?
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