Independent parliamentary candidate for Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk
Scottish Borders
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I’ve written a thing about Scottish Parliament elections voting options on Thursday, 07 May 2026.
TLDR - for your two 🗳️❎ votes:
1) Ettrick, Roxburgh & Berwickshire - vote for James Anderson (Independent) or Ray Georgeson (Scottish LibDems)
2) South Scotland - vote Scottish LibDems or Scottish Labour
#Holyrood #ScottishParliament #Elections2026 #MSPs @jamesan34033763 @BordersRayLD @scotbordlibdem @scotlibdems @AnasSarwar @ScottishLabour
The horror of Reform and the far-right elliemerton.com/2026/05/02/t…
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Ellie Merton for Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk retweeted
Did your children go to university like you did Rupert? Or did you advise them to do apprenticeships?
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Layla Moran criticises social media algorithms,
"They are promoting hate, pitting people against each other"
"People are posting things that are not true and they are purposely there to incite other people so there's a pile on"
"This is harming society, it's making people not believe each other"
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Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see.
This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.
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The only acceptable and lawful “peace” plan between illegally occupying Israel and occupied Palestine, to stop Israel’s extermination of the Palestinian people and Israel’s erasure of Palestine as a whole, must be the *immediate*
- retreat & dismantling of all Israeli & allied occupation forces & cessation of all their warmongering in the region.
- hand over of entire Israeli domestic & military nuclear capabilities to IAEA & UN forces (paid for by US reparations).
- release of all Palestinian hostages from Israeli jails and concentration camps.
- administration of all of Palestine by the Palestinian Authority, Palestinian civil service and Palestinian criminal justice system, with systems & training support from ME & EU allies, paid for by reparations from Israel.
- protection of Palestinians by UN forces led by UK/Jordan until UK/Jordan/et al have trained up a Palestinian military (paid for by UK, US & ME state reparations).
- opening of all crossings into Palestine from Israel, Egypt, Jordan & Syria with the protection of Palestinians/internationals by UN forces (paid for by US reparations).
- opening of all Palestinian waters and airspace, again protected by UN forces in the interim (paid for by US reparations).
- initial payment to Palestine Authority of ÂŁ4 trillion in reparations by Israel to start rebuilding Palestine.
- evacuation of all (illegal) Israeli settlements back beyond 1967 borders, removal of all settlement buildings, check points & roadblocks, & opening of all Israeli-only settlement roads throughout Palestine (paid for by Russian & US reparations).
- arrest & detention of all Israeli officials & participants in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians & occupation of Palestine prior to trial at The Hague (paid for by UK & EU reparations).
- return to Israel & Palestine & reparations of min ÂŁ1 million per Palestinian from Israel for all Palestinians expelled from their homes, displaced, jailed, tortured, injured, stripped of livelihoods and lands or killed throughout historic Palestine since 1948.
- release of remaining Israeli military prisoners of war.
For starters. Nothing less is legally, morally or humanly acceptable. @FranceskAlbs @Palestine_UN @CIJ_ICJ @IntlCrimCourt @KarimKhanQC @10DowningStreet @RoyalFamily @KingAbdullahII @antonioguterres @vonderleyen @POTUS @KremlinRussia_E @iaeaorg
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I’ve written about how terror stalks the corridors of Parliament and newsrooms up and down the country, but it’s slick, warmongering Israeli government terror, not that of British pacifist peace activists: elliemerton.com/2025/06/30/a…
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Heartfelt plea to MPs & champions of those most at risk from proposed botched NHS executions not to allow the #AssistedDyingBill to become law.
@RupaHuq @TomTugendhat @RachaelMaskell @Siobhain_Mc @GwynneMP @PaulFosterMP @RhonddaBryant @jackabbott90 @JoshFG @KarlTurnerMP @SteveDarlingMP @BrianMathewLD @munirawilson
@kimleadbeater & her #AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide #NHSexecutions parliamentary pals in @Conservatives @UKLabour @LibDems may now sit back & listen to me explain why valiant Jo Cox’s less than valiant sister’s incompetent, appallingly written, highly compromised & inadequately scrutinised legislation [Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill] is catastrophic.
No MP with the semblance of a brain should vote in favour of such shoddy law-making. 1/
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Ellie Merton for Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk retweeted
So, there you are, a poorly argued plea but a heartfelt howl of pure anguish and despair from one who knows and is still suffering the consequences of suicide 25 years after the act:
Please, do *not* allow this horrendous piece of shockingly badly devised, appallingly written, wholly unconscionable legislation to become law.
Please, listen to us who recognise what suicide is, how catastrophic it is, how hopelessly irrational and illogical suicidal thinking is, how fleeting and temporary suicidal feelings are, and how eminently and effectively treatable suicidal ideation and feelings are at all times of life and in all circumstances.
Please, realise that all suicide is preventable.
Please realise that physical ill health can cause depression and that depression is always treatable, even if the physical ailment may not be.
Instead, please, go back to @UKLabour govt and mandate them to triple funding for palliative and hospice care, and quadruple funding for psychiatric care.
And import from abroad as many skilled carers and clinicians and their families as @GOVUK can lay its hands on. We desperately need such wonderful people to enrich our lives, pay lots of tax, and care for us.
Please, show your morality, your compassion and your support for the dying to live with love, dignity and hope for all the days that their bodies will let them.
Vote against @kimleadbeater’s Bill
#KillTheBillNotUs
#JustSayNo
#AssistedDying
#AssistedSuicide
#NHSexecutions
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@kimleadbeater & her #AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide #NHSexecutions parliamentary pals in @Conservatives @UKLabour @LibDems may now sit back & listen to me explain why valiant Jo Cox’s less than valiant sister’s incompetent, appallingly written, highly compromised & inadequately scrutinised legislation [Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill] is catastrophic.
No MP with the semblance of a brain should vote in favour of such shoddy law-making. 1/
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Or rather executed.
What is being proposed in the manner of drugs to kill a person off has far fewer safeguards for the person being put to death (albeit at their own hands) than your average Death Row incumbent. It’s truly shocking and abhorrent. And deeply undignified. And exceptionally cruel.
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So, there you are, a poorly argued plea but a heartfelt howl of pure anguish and despair from one who knows and is still suffering the consequences of suicide 25 years after the act:
Please, do *not* allow this horrendous piece of shockingly badly devised, appallingly written, wholly unconscionable legislation to become law.
Please, listen to us who recognise what suicide is, how catastrophic it is, how hopelessly irrational and illogical suicidal thinking is, how fleeting and temporary suicidal feelings are, and how eminently and effectively treatable suicidal ideation and feelings are at all times of life and in all circumstances.
Please, realise that all suicide is preventable.
Please realise that physical ill health can cause depression and that depression is always treatable, even if the physical ailment may not be.
Instead, please, go back to @UKLabour govt and mandate them to triple funding for palliative and hospice care, and quadruple funding for psychiatric care.
And import from abroad as many skilled carers and clinicians and their families as @GOVUK can lay its hands on. We desperately need such wonderful people to enrich our lives, pay lots of tax, and care for us.
Please, show your morality, your compassion and your support for the dying to live with love, dignity and hope for all the days that their bodies will let them.
Vote against @kimleadbeater’s Bill
#KillTheBillNotUs
#JustSayNo
#AssistedDying
#AssistedSuicide
#NHSexecutions
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