Good to see @JohnSwinney our FM in our hood today. @theSNP wants to lower your bills. Other parties are trying to stop us.   #LeithWalk #Edinburgh #SP26 #BothVotesSNP

Kyiv is in serious danger #news #ukraine

Since the American President announced the energy ceasefire a week ago, Russia has deliberately attacked Ukraine’s energy and oil and gas sectors 76 times. Last night alone, there were strikes on substations in the Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and Odesa regions. Tens of thousands of families remain without power. Energy workers and repair crews are working virtually around the clock to restore electricity supply. Overnight, the Russians also struck residential buildings in our regions. As of now, 12 people have been reported injured, including two children. Two people have been killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones. This morning, there was a strike on an agricultural enterprise in Volyn. All necessary services are working at the site. In total, over this past week, the Russians have attacked Ukraine with almost 2,700 attack drones, 1,700 aerial bombs, and 66 missiles, most of them ballistic. The main targets of these strikes are energy facilities – the Russians are trying to cause a blackout. And America should see that Russia is not taking any reciprocal steps in response to sanctions relief or agreements. On the contrary, they take every signal of an opportunity to make money as proof that their bet on war is paying off and they can keep fighting. It is because of this position of Russia’s that the war continues, not because Ukraine is rightfully defending itself. It is Russia that must face pressure for peace to have a chance. Thank you to everyone who understands this and helps.

“We're not hanging around for another decade of broken Brexit Britain.” Scotland shouldn't have to wait another ten years for change. The ambition is to build an independent Scotland, back in the EU and making its own decisions.

“When we are assertive, we're aggressive. When we are emotional, we are weak.” Women in politics are too often judged by different standards. It's time to call out the double standards, challenge them wherever we see them, and stand up for women across the political spectrum.

Why independence is your right to choose snp.org/why-independence-is-… via @theSNP

Scottish independence is about more than politics. It's about having the power to make our own decisions and shape Scotland's future. Read the full article 👇 snp.org/why-independence-is-… #SNP26

RT @DaveDooganSNP: 🤔 The UK Government wants to revisit Brexit, while denying the people of Scotland the same democratic choice on independ…

Scotland proudly stands in solidarity with Ukraine. My statement on today’s reports 👇

Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity, tax avoidance. Successive govts have defended tax havens. theferret.scot/scotland-data…

President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin’s ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham. While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin’s war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day. Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin’s war machine. As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia. America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin’s war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration. Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia’s military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him. America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦

Westminster pledged a £200 million support package to safeguard the Grangemouth industrial cluster. Yet, as recent Freedom of Information requests and parliamentary evidence have laid bare, the grand sum of £0 has actually reached the area. snp.org/labour-grangemouths-…

The Scottish Parliament has just overwhelmingly voted to support Scotland's future in the EU. Scotland is a proud European nation, and we want to be back. 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The SNP has repeatedly argued for broadcasting powers to be devolved.

The UK's state pension is not generous compared to others in Europe. Older people relying on the state pension have to get by on barely over £1000 a month. Andy Burnham’s plans to end the triple lock are unacceptable, morally wrong and the SNP will stand against them.

What can Burnham learn from Scotland’s social care system?Scotland is the obvious comparison says FT talkingupscotlandtwo.com/202…

Reconsider rejection of our pub's decking in Leith - Sign the Petition! c.org/Q48jsFzrpk via @UKChange

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Westminster simply can't be trusted to deliver for Scotland. Scotland needs independence.

This would mean in real terms every pensioner in Scotland being almost £2,000 worse off in 2050. This is unacceptable and the PM must abandon these plans. The Deputy First Minister wrote to the @ScotParl Finance Committee to update them on this analysis: gov.scot/publications/deputy…

I have received the first official estimate of the cost to Scotland's pensioners of the Prime Minister's attack on the triple lock. It will take up to £4bn from Scotland's pensioners. And the Prime Minister plans to use it to pay for social care in England.