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Richard Leonard
@richardleonardmsp.bsky.social
🌹 Labour MSP for Central Scotland
✊ Trade unionist
🙌 The cause of labour is the hope of the world
Pinned
'The main thing is to give people hope'

Great words from the great Tony Benn, on the centenary of his birth ✊

How we miss him

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I will leave Parliament as I entered it: with landlord monopoly and class inequality remaining as Scotland's hereditary curse

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November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I laid a wreath at the war memorial in Airdrie this morning in remembrance of all those lives lost in war
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
MSPs elected next year must think big and act radical to end the centuries-old injustice of land ownership

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November 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Nuclear weapons do not make us safe – if we don't destroy them, they will destroy us

Big thanks to @scottishcnd.bsky.social for the opportunity to address their conference on stopping the nuclear nightmare
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A packed meeting last night of students, family members and staff of Forth Valley College

We speak with one voice: the Alloa campus must stay open
October 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
He labelled parliament 'the national gasworks'...

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October 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Informative visit to Reach Advocacy in Coatbridge today

We need a human rights based approach to supporting every citizen and that means investing in organisations like Reach, rather than relying on the market
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This Thursday

Fight to save Alloa campus and for more investment in all our colleges
October 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Sad to say farewell today to Stuart Gulliver who made an indelible mark on the city and culture of Glasgow

A visionary thinker who put his ideas into practice: he still had much to give
Stuart Gulliver obituary
Economic development strategist who helped make Glasgow a cultural centre of international standing in the 1980s and 90s
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Thank you to @fbunational.bsky.social rep Scott Fleming for the briefing on the planned cuts to Cumbernauld's fire and rescue service, including a visit to the site of St Mungo’s church in the town which burned down in August

These cuts put lives at risk and must be stopped
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In a year when racism is on the rise, we must stand up and speak out

Show racism the red card
October 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Always good to visit the Keir Hardie room at the Baird Museum in Cumnock

Looking forward to the Keir Hardie Society AGM in Glasgow on Saturday with guest speaker Melissa Benn
October 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Further education empowers people, strengthens communities, and drives Scotland’s economy

Why then has the SNP cut college funding by 20% in the last five years?
Opinion: 'Further education is not a luxury – it is a necessity'
Our further education colleges form the crucial link between school and work and offer the chance for training and retraining in an age where a job for life has virtually disappeared.
www.falkirkherald.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
👀 Watch John Swinney (eventually) admit he has NEVER visited Ferguson Marine as First Minister

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October 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
One quarter of the price you pay for your train ticket currently goes to private companies to pay shareholders

I'm backing @aslefunion.bsky.social's demand for public financing of new trains through green bonds so that every penny can be reinvested
October 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Great to see Battleship Potemkin at the Bo’ness Hippodrome at the weekend with a live musical accompaniment by S!nk
October 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Not everyone who has joined the protests outside hotels where asylum seekers are staying would call themselves far right

But anyone who stands with people making Nazi salutes and holding up signs bearing white supremacist slogans ought to conclude that they are on the wrong side
Richard Leonard MSP: ‘Let us vow to change it….and let us be united’
Let me speak as plainly as I can, the protests outside the Cladhan Hotel have been fuelled by far right propaganda and attended by neo-Nazis, and I stand fully behind the anti-racist campaigners who f...
www.falkirkherald.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I know which side I am on in @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social's dispute with Edinburgh University bosses: @ucu.org.uk

Which side is the Scottish Government on?

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September 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
#OTD in 1959, 47 miners went to work in Auchengeich Pit and never came home

Every year, their village remembers them by coming together to reaffirm the values of solidarity and unity

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September 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
❌ Stop Trump

💥 Scrap nuclear weapons

🌍 Make the world a safer place

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September 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This is a win for the workers and their trade unions who refused to accept that what they had been told was inevitable
Alexander Dennis to keep sites open after £4m furlough pledge
The company had set previously out plans to close the plant with the loss of 400 jobs and move production to Yorkshire.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Today the community of Moodiesburn remembered the 53 miners who perished in the Auchengeich pit disasters of 1931 and 1959

I was deeply honoured to address the memorial service
September 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
We're not going to grow our economy by relying on the war machine and the arms trade

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September 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Why aren't new trains being bought through issuing green bonds, as @aslefunion.bsky.social proposes, instead of by rip-off private lease deals with money siphoned out of the country?

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September 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I joined the @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social picket line this morning to show solidarity and hear first-hand about the devastating plan for £140 million of cuts to jobs and courses

They are asking people to email the university principal to oppose it
September 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM