Richard Leonard
@richardleonardmsp.bsky.social
🌹 Labour MSP for Central Scotland
✊ Trade unionist
🙌 The cause of labour is the hope of the world
✊ Trade unionist
🙌 The cause of labour is the hope of the world
Good to speak to the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland today – a training and professional development organisation which specialises in community nursing, midwifery and tackling health inequalities
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Good to speak to the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland today – a training and professional development organisation which specialises in community nursing, midwifery and tackling health inequalities
Further education colleges need investment not cuts
Delighted to host a delegation of trade unionists who are fighting to save the Alloa campus of Forth Valley College
Delighted to host a delegation of trade unionists who are fighting to save the Alloa campus of Forth Valley College
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Further education colleges need investment not cuts
Delighted to host a delegation of trade unionists who are fighting to save the Alloa campus of Forth Valley College
Delighted to host a delegation of trade unionists who are fighting to save the Alloa campus of Forth Valley College
I will leave Parliament as I entered it: with landlord monopoly and class inequality remaining as Scotland's hereditary curse
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fb.watch/DhIuhkSXYz/
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I will leave Parliament as I entered it: with landlord monopoly and class inequality remaining as Scotland's hereditary curse
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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
I laid a wreath at the war memorial in Airdrie this morning in remembrance of all those lives lost in war
MSPs elected next year must think big and act radical to end the centuries-old injustice of land ownership
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fb.watch/DeZ_BNyUp9/
November 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
MSPs elected next year must think big and act radical to end the centuries-old injustice of land ownership
fb.watch/DeZ_BNyUp9/
fb.watch/DeZ_BNyUp9/
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
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
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
Big thanks to @scottishcnd.bsky.social for the opportunity to address their conference on stopping the nuclear nightmare
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
We speak with one voice: the Alloa campus must stay open
October 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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
We speak with one voice: the Alloa campus must stay open
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
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
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
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
This Thursday
Fight to save Alloa campus and for more investment in all our colleges
Fight to save Alloa campus and for more investment in all our colleges
October 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This Thursday
Fight to save Alloa campus and for more investment in all our colleges
Fight to save Alloa campus and for more investment in all our colleges
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
These cuts put lives at risk and must be stopped
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 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
These cuts put lives at risk and must be stopped
In a year when racism is on the rise, we must stand up and speak out
Show racism the red card
Show racism the red card
October 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
In a year when racism is on the rise, we must stand up and speak out
Show racism the red card
Show racism the red card
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
Looking forward to the Keir Hardie Society AGM in Glasgow on Saturday with guest speaker Melissa Benn
October 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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
Looking forward to the Keir Hardie Society AGM in Glasgow on Saturday with guest speaker Melissa Benn
👀 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
👀 Watch John Swinney (eventually) admit he has NEVER visited Ferguson Marine as First Minister
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www.facebook.com/reel/1917815...
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
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
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
I'm backing @aslefunion.bsky.social's demand for public financing of new trains through green bonds so that every penny can be reinvested
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
Great to see Battleship Potemkin at the Bo’ness Hippodrome at the weekend with a live musical accompaniment by S!nk
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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Which side is the Scottish Government on?
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September 19, 2025 at 1:16 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?
fb.watch/Cd4eHs8sAW/
Which side is the Scottish Government on?
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#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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Every year, their village remembers them by coming together to reaffirm the values of solidarity and unity
fb.watch/Cbu_6uG3wA/
September 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
#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
fb.watch/Cbu_6uG3wA/
Every year, their village remembers them by coming together to reaffirm the values of solidarity and unity
fb.watch/Cbu_6uG3wA/
September 17, 2025 at 5:18 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
I was deeply honoured to address the memorial service
September 14, 2025 at 7:07 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
I was deeply honoured to address the memorial service
We're not going to grow our economy by relying on the war machine and the arms trade
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fb.watch/C2Kl2LqvbM/
September 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
We're not going to grow our economy by relying on the war machine and the arms trade
fb.watch/C2Kl2LqvbM/
fb.watch/C2Kl2LqvbM/
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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fb.watch/C04XX8Om8p/
September 9, 2025 at 4:47 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?
fb.watch/C04XX8Om8p/
fb.watch/C04XX8Om8p/
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
They are asking people to email the university principal to oppose it
September 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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
They are asking people to email the university principal to oppose it
September 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Great to visit this exhibition of posters by Alistair McCallum and Jane Carroll from the Cranhill Arts project at Street Level Photoworks in Trongate, Glasgow
Lots of happy memories
Lots of happy memories
September 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Great to visit this exhibition of posters by Alistair McCallum and Jane Carroll from the Cranhill Arts project at Street Level Photoworks in Trongate, Glasgow
Lots of happy memories
Lots of happy memories