Andrew Wilson
@aigwilson.bsky.social
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Working for a better, prosperous, peaceful, greener independent Scotland.
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Braw day in Blackburn campaigning for a more affordable, brighter and better connected West Lothian.
Folks are resonating with our campaign to put your priorities first again, after a decade of neglect from West Lothian’s Labour-Tory coalition!
Thanks to everyone who joined us today 💛
#ActiveSNP
Folks are resonating with our campaign to put your priorities first again, after a decade of neglect from West Lothian’s Labour-Tory coalition!
Thanks to everyone who joined us today 💛
#ActiveSNP
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Braw day in Blackburn campaigning for a more affordable, brighter and better connected West Lothian.
Folks are resonating with our campaign to put your priorities first again, after a decade of neglect from West Lothian’s Labour-Tory coalition!
Thanks to everyone who joined us today 💛
#ActiveSNP
Folks are resonating with our campaign to put your priorities first again, after a decade of neglect from West Lothian’s Labour-Tory coalition!
Thanks to everyone who joined us today 💛
#ActiveSNP
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Fantastic support in Whitburn today for @snp.org — including some first-timer voters I bumped into!
Folks on the doors feel excited for our campaign to make West Lothian more affordable, brighter and better connected
And I think it’s fair to say that meeting wee Hugo was the highlight!
#ActiveSNP
Folks on the doors feel excited for our campaign to make West Lothian more affordable, brighter and better connected
And I think it’s fair to say that meeting wee Hugo was the highlight!
#ActiveSNP
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Fantastic support in Whitburn today for @snp.org — including some first-timer voters I bumped into!
Folks on the doors feel excited for our campaign to make West Lothian more affordable, brighter and better connected
And I think it’s fair to say that meeting wee Hugo was the highlight!
#ActiveSNP
Folks on the doors feel excited for our campaign to make West Lothian more affordable, brighter and better connected
And I think it’s fair to say that meeting wee Hugo was the highlight!
#ActiveSNP
We share the light and our love from around the world to you, we hope that you and your family enjoy a very Happy Diwali!
October 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We share the light and our love from around the world to you, we hope that you and your family enjoy a very Happy Diwali!
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It's pretty clear now. If Scotland wants to be back in the EU, the only route is for us to join after we've regained independence.
Which, by my reckoning, would take no more than seven years (including our own referendum).
Here's how:
open.substack.com/pub/yesinpic...
Which, by my reckoning, would take no more than seven years (including our own referendum).
Here's how:
open.substack.com/pub/yesinpic...
September 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
It's pretty clear now. If Scotland wants to be back in the EU, the only route is for us to join after we've regained independence.
Which, by my reckoning, would take no more than seven years (including our own referendum).
Here's how:
open.substack.com/pub/yesinpic...
Which, by my reckoning, would take no more than seven years (including our own referendum).
Here's how:
open.substack.com/pub/yesinpic...
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Eyebrows raised in the Commons as SNP's Stephen Flynn quotes Mandelson telling the FT to "fuck off"
Jim Shannon's face says it all
Jim Shannon's face says it all
September 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Eyebrows raised in the Commons as SNP's Stephen Flynn quotes Mandelson telling the FT to "fuck off"
Jim Shannon's face says it all
Jim Shannon's face says it all
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Scottish Devolution = Westminster claims credit for the good things that Holyrood achieves, whilst blaming Holyrood for the things that aren't devolved from Westminster and over which Holyrood has no control.
www.thenational.scot/news/2546922...
www.thenational.scot/news/2546922...
Douglas Alexander tries to claim UK Government credit for Alexander Dennis furlough
DOUGLAS Alexander has said that the UK Government has been “leading intensive work” on saving jobs at Alexander Dennis – despite the bus…
www.thenational.scot
September 16, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Scottish Devolution = Westminster claims credit for the good things that Holyrood achieves, whilst blaming Holyrood for the things that aren't devolved from Westminster and over which Holyrood has no control.
www.thenational.scot/news/2546922...
www.thenational.scot/news/2546922...
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All these Tory MPs switching to Reform.
September 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
All these Tory MPs switching to Reform.
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Now watch as the BBC treat the Holyrood 2026 election as dress rehearsal for the next UK general election, and relentlessly promote their agenda of giving disproportionate coverage to the right-wing parties.
September 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Now watch as the BBC treat the Holyrood 2026 election as dress rehearsal for the next UK general election, and relentlessly promote their agenda of giving disproportionate coverage to the right-wing parties.
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Again, I really do have concerns about exactly how Justin Webb is acquiring his knowledge of US politics or what prompted him to make this exact point.
Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk.
What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.
What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.
September 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Again, I really do have concerns about exactly how Justin Webb is acquiring his knowledge of US politics or what prompted him to make this exact point.
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This is the leadership countries should expect - one which stands up for all the people who make up that nation.
A voice which speaks up for all of Scotland's people is needed, now more than ever.
As Westminster and England lurch to the Far Right,
It is clear #Scotland is on a different path.
A voice which speaks up for all of Scotland's people is needed, now more than ever.
As Westminster and England lurch to the Far Right,
It is clear #Scotland is on a different path.
Throwing a brick through the window of a hotel housing asylum seekers in Falkirk is absolutely despicable.
People who fled war and persecution deserve to live in safety, not fear.
Words have consequences - it’s time for politicians who spread hate to reflect on that.
People who fled war and persecution deserve to live in safety, not fear.
Words have consequences - it’s time for politicians who spread hate to reflect on that.
September 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This is the leadership countries should expect - one which stands up for all the people who make up that nation.
A voice which speaks up for all of Scotland's people is needed, now more than ever.
As Westminster and England lurch to the Far Right,
It is clear #Scotland is on a different path.
A voice which speaks up for all of Scotland's people is needed, now more than ever.
As Westminster and England lurch to the Far Right,
It is clear #Scotland is on a different path.
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When I wrote this in 2019 some accused me of exaggerating the connection between the intellectual bigotry/racism of the Spectator and Telegraph (as exemplified by Scruton and Murray) and BNP/street-level thuggery. If anything I was too cautious..
www.politics.co.uk/comment-anal...
www.politics.co.uk/comment-anal...
Scruton is part of an intellectual culture giving respectability to racism
Howls of outrage over philosopher Sir Roger Scruton's loss of a government job ignore the reality of his output.
www.politics.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
When I wrote this in 2019 some accused me of exaggerating the connection between the intellectual bigotry/racism of the Spectator and Telegraph (as exemplified by Scruton and Murray) and BNP/street-level thuggery. If anything I was too cautious..
www.politics.co.uk/comment-anal...
www.politics.co.uk/comment-anal...
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Repeat after me: 40% of the men arrested for rioting against asylum seekers in Southport had previously been reported to the police for domestic violence.
Why would anyone want to associate themselves with that lot?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Why would anyone want to associate themselves with that lot?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Repeat after me: 40% of the men arrested for rioting against asylum seekers in Southport had previously been reported to the police for domestic violence.
Why would anyone want to associate themselves with that lot?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Why would anyone want to associate themselves with that lot?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Is a party with just four MPs getting too much coverage on the BBC? With me in the studio to discuss this are Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Lee Anderson and Sarah Pochin.
August 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Is a party with just four MPs getting too much coverage on the BBC? With me in the studio to discuss this are Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Lee Anderson and Sarah Pochin.
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Reform will have to reselect in Croydon, as their initial candidate for Mayor had been dead for 6 months when they selected her, Inside Croydon report
Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually
insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually
insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor
EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, sadly died in July 2024. But that didn’t stop Reform UK six months later picking her as their Croydon mayoral candidate. By our Political Edit…
insidecroydon.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Reform will have to reselect in Croydon, as their initial candidate for Mayor had been dead for 6 months when they selected her, Inside Croydon report
Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually
insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually
insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
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Photo of the Day.
If you had suggested anything like this before November’s election, you would have been accused of being hysterical.
Taken on Tuesday in Washington D.C. by J. Scott Applewhite for Associated Press.
If you had suggested anything like this before November’s election, you would have been accused of being hysterical.
Taken on Tuesday in Washington D.C. by J. Scott Applewhite for Associated Press.
August 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Photo of the Day.
If you had suggested anything like this before November’s election, you would have been accused of being hysterical.
Taken on Tuesday in Washington D.C. by J. Scott Applewhite for Associated Press.
If you had suggested anything like this before November’s election, you would have been accused of being hysterical.
Taken on Tuesday in Washington D.C. by J. Scott Applewhite for Associated Press.
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Nigel Farage's chaotic press conference shows he is a liability for Reform UK in Scotland
Nigel Farage's chaotic press event shows he a drag for Reform UK in Scotland
Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says the Reform UK leader has a poor grasp of Scottish politics
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Nigel Farage's chaotic press conference shows he is a liability for Reform UK in Scotland
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SNP: "Meanwhile, a recent survey showed that Scottish Water is the joint most trusted utility supplier in the UK, scoring a remarkable customer satisfaction level of 94%...Customers pay over £100 less in water bills than those in England & Wales, for some of the best quality water in the world."
August 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
SNP: "Meanwhile, a recent survey showed that Scottish Water is the joint most trusted utility supplier in the UK, scoring a remarkable customer satisfaction level of 94%...Customers pay over £100 less in water bills than those in England & Wales, for some of the best quality water in the world."
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Let’s get out of Broken Brexit Britain.
Independence! 🏴
Independence! 🏴
August 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Let’s get out of Broken Brexit Britain.
Independence! 🏴
Independence! 🏴
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Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare.
Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1997...
Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1997...
August 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare.
Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1997...
Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1997...
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How long before Starmer instructs the UK police to do this ?
If you think it can`t happen here then you never understood what Scargill and the miners faced at Orgreave, this is why he was demonised, he, his fellow union men like McGahey knew exactly who they were fighting, see this
If you think it can`t happen here then you never understood what Scargill and the miners faced at Orgreave, this is why he was demonised, he, his fellow union men like McGahey knew exactly who they were fighting, see this
August 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
How long before Starmer instructs the UK police to do this ?
If you think it can`t happen here then you never understood what Scargill and the miners faced at Orgreave, this is why he was demonised, he, his fellow union men like McGahey knew exactly who they were fighting, see this
If you think it can`t happen here then you never understood what Scargill and the miners faced at Orgreave, this is why he was demonised, he, his fellow union men like McGahey knew exactly who they were fighting, see this
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"Moderate Tory", Seb Payne, on "why he changed his mind" on the ECHR.
It would be better to just be honest and say: Because my boss told me, I am tired of swimming upstream, and I really want to be an MP. So, I've decided to go with the flow.
Instead of these unedifying mental gymnastics.
It would be better to just be honest and say: Because my boss told me, I am tired of swimming upstream, and I really want to be an MP. So, I've decided to go with the flow.
Instead of these unedifying mental gymnastics.
August 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"Moderate Tory", Seb Payne, on "why he changed his mind" on the ECHR.
It would be better to just be honest and say: Because my boss told me, I am tired of swimming upstream, and I really want to be an MP. So, I've decided to go with the flow.
Instead of these unedifying mental gymnastics.
It would be better to just be honest and say: Because my boss told me, I am tired of swimming upstream, and I really want to be an MP. So, I've decided to go with the flow.
Instead of these unedifying mental gymnastics.