Listen to this nonsensical waffle. Where do the SNP get these people? 🙈

Public office comes with public scrutiny. If you can’t handle that, you’re in the wrong job. Blaming a poor performance on a chest infection and perceived misogyny is a pretty extraordinary attempt to dodge responsibility. Sometimes you just have to own it. scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/n…

So many people are now publicly speaking out in dismay at the state of Glasgow that the SNP can no longer dismiss it as a few moaners and pretend there is nothing seriously wrong. Perhaps it’s time to stop denying there’s a problem and start fixing it. scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/n…

Imagine the national outrage if they replaced the word "England" with "Pakistan". Humza would have a nuclear meltdown. As it's England however - tumbleweed.

This is the ugly face of nationalism: ‘England get out of Scotland’. Scotland is home to hundreds of thousands of people born in England. They are our neighbours, friends and families — not an occupying enemy.”

We already decided. Next.

📌 1,133 people dead. 📌 Families devastated. 📌 Deaths up 11%. The constitutional escape hatch is getting increasingly difficult to use after 19 years in government.

The drug deaths question the SNP/Greens can't answer. If the whole of the UK has the same drugs legislation, why does Scotland always have the worst drug death statistics by far?

BREAKING: Kenneth Gibson discovers that walking out of Parliament is unacceptable approximately 26 years after walking out himself. What a hypocrite.

Between 2021 and 2023, Scottish ODA to Malawi totalled £12.83m, Rwanda £4.73m and Zambia £3.84m. Overseas aid/international development is not devolved to the Scottish Parliament. It is a reserved matter. So why are the SNP sending our money overseas to anyone?

Jack Middleton hasn't been an MSP five minutes and he's already achieved black belt status in SNP buck-passing. Even former SNP Health Secretary Alex Neil describes Middleton's intervention as “stupid and embarrassing”.

Perhaps Holyrood needs a new rule: Before demanding more powers @JohnSwinney, explain what you've achieved with the ones you've already got. Start with 1,133 drug-use deaths.

Swinney wants decriminalisation of drugs to be the story. The real story is that his party has governed Scotland through a drug-death catastrophe and learned nothing. Blaming Westminster fools nobody. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmpq…

He says this every year. Why should we believe him this time? Next year will be the same again.

I sincerely hope the other parties support this motion of no confidence. Yes, it may amount to little more than a parliamentary headline. But headlines are almost all that remain when the substance of this debate has been exhausted by years of promises, strategies, taskforces and assurances that progress is being made. Yesterday we learned that 1,133 people died from drugs in Scotland last year. Deaths rose 11%. Male deaths rose 19%. The minister stood before Parliament and described the figures as unacceptable, while insisting that her “eye is absolutely on the ball”. Scottish Parliament If 1,133 deaths and another year of deterioration do not trigger political accountability, what possibly would? This should not be about Reform, SNP, Labour, Conservative or anybody else's tribal loyalties. A vote of no confidence is Parliament's opportunity to say that failure on this scale has consequences. Scotland's grieving families have heard enough expressions of concern. They are entitled to see somebody finally accept responsibility for a system that is manifestly failing too many people.

Sums up everything that's wrong with Holyrood. People are waiting years on hospital lists, islanders can't get a working ferry, drug deaths worst in Europe and these idiots are debating Palestine. Close the place down, it's not fit for purpose. scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/c…

BBC News - Reports of violence against women in Gaza surge, UN agency finds. Amazing how all the usual loudmouths have suddenly lost their voices. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c94g…

The drug consumption room in Glasgow hasn't exactly been a success, so why would Edinburgh want one?

A quick reminder: SNP Drugs Minister Maree Todd swanned off to watch football at the world cup in the USA whilst drug addicts were dying back in Scotland. That's how seriously she takes her brief.