Cal Johnston-Dempsey
@cal.scot
He/him 🏳️🌈
Interests:
• Politics 🗳️🏴🇪🇺
• Tech & Gaming 👨💻📱⌨️🎮
• OD TV & Podcasts 📺🎧
• Motorcycles 🏍️
SNP Councillor for Bothwell & Uddingston 🟡
www.Cal.scot
Constituent enquiries:
Cal.Dempsey@southlanarkshire.gov.uk
Interests:
• Politics 🗳️🏴🇪🇺
• Tech & Gaming 👨💻📱⌨️🎮
• OD TV & Podcasts 📺🎧
• Motorcycles 🏍️
SNP Councillor for Bothwell & Uddingston 🟡
www.Cal.scot
Constituent enquiries:
Cal.Dempsey@southlanarkshire.gov.uk
Get yourself down to Bothwell Community Hub today for the Christmas Market. Great gift shopping, mulled wine, and the all-important raffle!
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Get yourself down to Bothwell Community Hub today for the Christmas Market. Great gift shopping, mulled wine, and the all-important raffle!
The Ambassador was followed by Sid Khan, a Scot who was recently held in an Israeli jail following his attempt as part of an international flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza.
#SNP25
#SNP25
October 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Ambassador was followed by Sid Khan, a Scot who was recently held in an Israeli jail following his attempt as part of an international flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza.
#SNP25
#SNP25
🇵🇸 The UK finally recognised the State of Palestine just three weeks ago. At SNP Conference, we were privileged and honoured today to hear from the new Ambassador of Palestine to the UK, Dr Husam Zomlot.
#SNP25
#SNP25
October 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🇵🇸 The UK finally recognised the State of Palestine just three weeks ago. At SNP Conference, we were privileged and honoured today to hear from the new Ambassador of Palestine to the UK, Dr Husam Zomlot.
#SNP25
#SNP25
It was great to hear from Roz Foyer, STUC General Secretary at SNP Conference this afternoon. This is the first ever address by the Scottish Trades Union Congress to our party.
October 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It was great to hear from Roz Foyer, STUC General Secretary at SNP Conference this afternoon. This is the first ever address by the Scottish Trades Union Congress to our party.
Quick matcha latte from Skinny Coffee on the platform at Uddingston train station then off to Aberdeen for my party's national conference.
#supportlocal
#supportlocal
October 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Quick matcha latte from Skinny Coffee on the platform at Uddingston train station then off to Aberdeen for my party's national conference.
#supportlocal
#supportlocal
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🚌 The guidance used to assess ‘safe’ walking routes to school is over 20yrs old and not fit for purpose — it doesn't even require a pavement.
❌ Labour have used that document to remove school transport from over 8,000 kids.
🟡 Today we brought a motion requesting a local review.
🥀 They blocked it.
❌ Labour have used that document to remove school transport from over 8,000 kids.
🟡 Today we brought a motion requesting a local review.
🥀 They blocked it.
October 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🚌 The guidance used to assess ‘safe’ walking routes to school is over 20yrs old and not fit for purpose — it doesn't even require a pavement.
❌ Labour have used that document to remove school transport from over 8,000 kids.
🟡 Today we brought a motion requesting a local review.
🥀 They blocked it.
❌ Labour have used that document to remove school transport from over 8,000 kids.
🟡 Today we brought a motion requesting a local review.
🥀 They blocked it.
Renewing a driving license online:
£14
Renewing a DL by post because the online system doesn't work:
£17 fee
+ £10 photo booth prints
+ £2.13 postal order fee
+ £1.70 stamp
Why is the UK Government so technologically illiterate and why does it make a £14 application £31?
£14
Renewing a DL by post because the online system doesn't work:
£17 fee
+ £10 photo booth prints
+ £2.13 postal order fee
+ £1.70 stamp
Why is the UK Government so technologically illiterate and why does it make a £14 application £31?
September 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Renewing a driving license online:
£14
Renewing a DL by post because the online system doesn't work:
£17 fee
+ £10 photo booth prints
+ £2.13 postal order fee
+ £1.70 stamp
Why is the UK Government so technologically illiterate and why does it make a £14 application £31?
£14
Renewing a DL by post because the online system doesn't work:
£17 fee
+ £10 photo booth prints
+ £2.13 postal order fee
+ £1.70 stamp
Why is the UK Government so technologically illiterate and why does it make a £14 application £31?
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We have submitted an urgent business request to discuss Labour’s cuts to school transport at the Executive Committee meeting this morning.
We demand that Councillors have a chance to scrutinise the final details of the cuts before they are introduced - this may be the last opportunity.
We demand that Councillors have a chance to scrutinise the final details of the cuts before they are introduced - this may be the last opportunity.
June 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
We have submitted an urgent business request to discuss Labour’s cuts to school transport at the Executive Committee meeting this morning.
We demand that Councillors have a chance to scrutinise the final details of the cuts before they are introduced - this may be the last opportunity.
We demand that Councillors have a chance to scrutinise the final details of the cuts before they are introduced - this may be the last opportunity.
There's a certain cruelness in life that finding your glasses would be a lot easier if you were wearing your glasses.
June 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
There's a certain cruelness in life that finding your glasses would be a lot easier if you were wearing your glasses.
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Have your say on local alcohol licensing!
Our Local Licensing Forums shape policies that impact your community. Members include license holders, police, health workers, young people and residents.
Our Local Licensing Forums shape policies that impact your community. Members include license holders, police, health workers, young people and residents.
May 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Have your say on local alcohol licensing!
Our Local Licensing Forums shape policies that impact your community. Members include license holders, police, health workers, young people and residents.
Our Local Licensing Forums shape policies that impact your community. Members include license holders, police, health workers, young people and residents.
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Extremely disappointed to see Labour effectively fabricating figures and quoting me as a source. When my (simple, full election, not a by-election prediction) model had Labour narrowly ahead of the SNP, I was not yet showing Reform figures. I have never published anything with these exact figures.
May 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Extremely disappointed to see Labour effectively fabricating figures and quoting me as a source. When my (simple, full election, not a by-election prediction) model had Labour narrowly ahead of the SNP, I was not yet showing Reform figures. I have never published anything with these exact figures.
Today's life management – getting Control Centre organised on my phone.
Frequent controls on page 1, then a page each for downstairs/upstairs smart tech.
Only annoyance is that there's no IF statements in Apple Shortcuts so my work phone line on/off can't be one button.
#tech #Apple #PhilipsHue
Frequent controls on page 1, then a page each for downstairs/upstairs smart tech.
Only annoyance is that there's no IF statements in Apple Shortcuts so my work phone line on/off can't be one button.
#tech #Apple #PhilipsHue
May 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Today's life management – getting Control Centre organised on my phone.
Frequent controls on page 1, then a page each for downstairs/upstairs smart tech.
Only annoyance is that there's no IF statements in Apple Shortcuts so my work phone line on/off can't be one button.
#tech #Apple #PhilipsHue
Frequent controls on page 1, then a page each for downstairs/upstairs smart tech.
Only annoyance is that there's no IF statements in Apple Shortcuts so my work phone line on/off can't be one button.
#tech #Apple #PhilipsHue
Sweltering day to rally for a republic on Calton Hill, Edinburgh.
🏴's tradition of popular sovereignty is much older than the Windsor rule of these islands. A modern, democratic nation deserves an elected head of state that represents and is answerable to us all.
@ourrepublic.scot
#RepublicDay
🏴's tradition of popular sovereignty is much older than the Windsor rule of these islands. A modern, democratic nation deserves an elected head of state that represents and is answerable to us all.
@ourrepublic.scot
#RepublicDay
May 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Sweltering day to rally for a republic on Calton Hill, Edinburgh.
🏴's tradition of popular sovereignty is much older than the Windsor rule of these islands. A modern, democratic nation deserves an elected head of state that represents and is answerable to us all.
@ourrepublic.scot
#RepublicDay
🏴's tradition of popular sovereignty is much older than the Windsor rule of these islands. A modern, democratic nation deserves an elected head of state that represents and is answerable to us all.
@ourrepublic.scot
#RepublicDay
Standing room only for Bothwell Futures AGM this evening.
April 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Standing room only for Bothwell Futures AGM this evening.
Matching lighting on my desk, keyboard and controller are really tingling my brain right now.
April 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Matching lighting on my desk, keyboard and controller are really tingling my brain right now.
It was devastating to hear this morning that Christina McKelvie MSP had passed away.
She was an absolute gem. Even when I was just some wee guy in the party, she always made every interaction feel like a real conversation, not the usual political patter.
My thoughts are with Keith, Jack and Lewis.
She was an absolute gem. Even when I was just some wee guy in the party, she always made every interaction feel like a real conversation, not the usual political patter.
My thoughts are with Keith, Jack and Lewis.
March 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It was devastating to hear this morning that Christina McKelvie MSP had passed away.
She was an absolute gem. Even when I was just some wee guy in the party, she always made every interaction feel like a real conversation, not the usual political patter.
My thoughts are with Keith, Jack and Lewis.
She was an absolute gem. Even when I was just some wee guy in the party, she always made every interaction feel like a real conversation, not the usual political patter.
My thoughts are with Keith, Jack and Lewis.
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We are once again talking about "welfare" instead of social security. "Welfare" individualises state support, when what the UK built in the post-war years was a social security system which served our common endeavour. "Welfare" is the language of tabloids; it should not be the language of Labour.
March 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We are once again talking about "welfare" instead of social security. "Welfare" individualises state support, when what the UK built in the post-war years was a social security system which served our common endeavour. "Welfare" is the language of tabloids; it should not be the language of Labour.
The internet remembers 😂
@ollymann.bsky.social
@ollymann.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The internet remembers 😂
@ollymann.bsky.social
@ollymann.bsky.social
I've been thinking about this hard and I believe the world really started turning for the worse when we stopped making swappable fascias for mobile phones.
February 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I've been thinking about this hard and I believe the world really started turning for the worse when we stopped making swappable fascias for mobile phones.
Your SNP Group believes you should be able to see where your Council Tax is spent.
Watch on Wednesday at 12:30pm using the "SL Committees" YouTube channel.
Watch on Wednesday at 12:30pm using the "SL Committees" YouTube channel.
On Wednesday the SNP Group will present an alternative budget for South Lanarkshire.
Our budget will focus on keeping council tax low, avoiding cuts to services and provide additional investment in key council areas such as Education, Roads, Social Care, Housing and Climate Sustainability.
Our budget will focus on keeping council tax low, avoiding cuts to services and provide additional investment in key council areas such as Education, Roads, Social Care, Housing and Climate Sustainability.
February 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Your SNP Group believes you should be able to see where your Council Tax is spent.
Watch on Wednesday at 12:30pm using the "SL Committees" YouTube channel.
Watch on Wednesday at 12:30pm using the "SL Committees" YouTube channel.
I'm glad my amendment to a motion was accepted today and the the council will no longer use Twitter/X (other than to share vital emergency updates).
We can no longer ask our staff to subject themselves to hate and violent/sexual material on that platform when managing our account.
We can no longer ask our staff to subject themselves to hate and violent/sexual material on that platform when managing our account.
South Lanarkshire Council will now only use X for emergency alerts and other urgent information. Read more in the View
www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/view/news/ar...
www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/view/news/ar...
February 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I'm glad my amendment to a motion was accepted today and the the council will no longer use Twitter/X (other than to share vital emergency updates).
We can no longer ask our staff to subject themselves to hate and violent/sexual material on that platform when managing our account.
We can no longer ask our staff to subject themselves to hate and violent/sexual material on that platform when managing our account.
I enjoyed getting out on the doors with Stephanie Callaghan MSP and other Uddingston and Bellshill SNP members this morning.
It's vital as local representatives to hear from residents about what matters to them.
#ActiveSNP
It's vital as local representatives to hear from residents about what matters to them.
#ActiveSNP
February 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I enjoyed getting out on the doors with Stephanie Callaghan MSP and other Uddingston and Bellshill SNP members this morning.
It's vital as local representatives to hear from residents about what matters to them.
#ActiveSNP
It's vital as local representatives to hear from residents about what matters to them.
#ActiveSNP
You can't trust a word from Scottish Labour. I'd feel bad for Anas Sarwar after this five minutes of squirming if it wasn't entirely of his own making. Great work by Colin MacKay at STV.
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar pressed on Grangemouth redundancies
YouTube video by STV News
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
You can't trust a word from Scottish Labour. I'd feel bad for Anas Sarwar after this five minutes of squirming if it wasn't entirely of his own making. Great work by Colin MacKay at STV.
@marcjenko.bsky.social was there something juicy in the Mhairi B episode? Stopped playing mid way through now doesn't seem to be in the feed.
January 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
@marcjenko.bsky.social was there something juicy in the Mhairi B episode? Stopped playing mid way through now doesn't seem to be in the feed.