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Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Mar 1

BLOG: 2025.4 - Reflections on #ScotLab25

My reflections on Scottish Labour Conference 2025; the question being asked of us ahead of 2026, and whether we are offering a clear enough answer.

2025.4 – Reflections on #ScotLab25

My reflections on Scottish Labour Conference 2025; the question being asked of us ahead of 2026, and whether we are offering a good enough answer.

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Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · 2d

Petition for everyone to have the chance to borrow Celia Imrie for a day for motivational purposes. #CelebrityTraitors

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · 2d

To say I am devastated is to undersell it.

Andrew Learmonth @andrewlearmonth.bsky.social · 2d

Massive change for next year's Holyrood election: there'll be no overnight count. Votes to be counted on the Friday instead.

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · 6d

Delighted to see the original cursed ratio getting an airing today. #LabourDeputyLeadership

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · 16d

TOP TIER ROUND TABLE! #TheCelebrityTraitors

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · 22d

Good thing for Kate looks can't kill, otherwise Tom Daly would be facing murder charges! #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · 22d

Alan Carr couldn't lie in a bed, let alone on National Setpiece Television.
Inspired decision-making from the producers here. #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · 24d

Sweep's seen better days hasn't he!

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · 26d

He has previous

Shakira and Gordon Brown working together on Global Education campaigns, both looking down towards a book.

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · 26d

Take a moment, please, to think of the sports subs.

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Sep 11

"Will no-one rid me of this meddlesome piece".

Clare Lavery @clerotto.bsky.social · Sep 10

Silhouetted remains of the High Court Banksy
creating a curiously medieval quality...as if depicting Thomas a Becket being attacked in the crypt

'It is dangerous for men in power, if no-one dares to tell them when they go wrong'
Thomas A Becket 1118-1170

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Sep 8

I won't comment on the brouhaha...but an absolute belter of a line from the MP here.

Is shall be nicked.

Paul Hutcheon @paulhutcheon.bsky.social · Sep 8

EXC: A Scottish Labour MP has branded Douglas Alexander a "wee p***k" after Ian Murray was sacked.

The MP said: “If I had a pound for everyone who liked Douglas, I would have 50p.”

Scots Labour MP brands Douglas Alexander a 'wee p***k' after Ian Murray sacking - Daily Record

EXCLUSIVE - The parliamentarian was scathing about the appointment of Alexander to the role of Scottish Secretary: “If I had a pound for everyone who liked Douglas, I would have 50p.”

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Aug 22

Bloody Nora!

Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · Aug 22

Barrhead, Liboside and Uplawmoor (East Renfrewshire) by-election, first prefs:

Labour: 1901 (41.9%, +21.7)
SNP: 1142 (25.1%, -8.3)
Reform: 1018 (22.4%, new)
Green: 247 (5.4%, +2.0)
Conservative: 207 (4.6%, -6.2)
Abolish: 27 (0.6%, new)
(Non-returns: Inds 26.0% & 5.1% Alba 1.1%)

Lab elected stage 6

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Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Jul 6

You reply, saying they were ruff.

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Jul 3

The New Jeremy Corbyn Vehicle has already had it's first leadership spat, without it being clear Jeremy Corbyn is involved...or whether there is, in fact, a vehicle.

Perfection.

Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · Jul 3

10/10, no notes.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · Jul 3

The "But it might work for us" meme, showing four panels with still images from Arrested Development. The bottom three panels shows actual dialogue from the show, the top panel doesn't.

The text reads:
What if we set up another left wing party, like Left Unity, TUSC, Socialist Alternative, Transform, Social Justice Party, National Health Action Party...
Well did it work for those people?
No, it never does, I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but...
...but it might work for us.

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Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Jun 26

Still not over this. Still refuse to believe this was an actual thing that was said.
Then again, this is the woman whose other indelible mark on Scottish Policits was the phrase and concept of "Independence Thermometers".

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Jun 26

Only the best of the best will do for @holyroodmag.bsky.social.

A Picture of Ash Regan MSP, who has been shortlisted by Holyrood Magazine as "MSP of the Year". Underneath, a quote (a genuine quotation) from her, addressing the suggestion that her Bill to ban the buying of Sex in Scotland would drive prostitution underground (which is an idomatic phrase which means "Would not be stopped, but would me done in private, often unsafely") where she says "You canno possibly drive prostituion underground. If you had women in underground cellars with a locked door, house would punters get to them"?

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Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Jun 22

THE RAINS HAVE COME TO GLASGOW!
I AM FREE FROM THE TYRANNY OF POLLEN!
#TeamHayfever

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Jun 19

As ever, more nuance and complexity than can be included in a skeet - but it all comes down to the basic point:
Human Rights Legislation should be a pain for lawmakers. That's the point. That has always been the purpose of it. The fact it is means it is doing its job!

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Jun 19

Things the ECHR/HRA have 'forced' the UK to do include:
🪖 allow openly LGBT people to serve in the military;
🚽 allow prisoners access to the loo;
🕵️ limit mass survelliance of the public;
🗳️ respect the democratic process; and
👪 not split up families Trump-style.

#SupportTheECHR #SupportTheHRA

Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · Jun 18

In 2024, the European Court of Human Rights dealt with 332 applications regarding the UK. 328 were deemed inadmissible or struck out. Four went as far as a judgment. ONE (1) found a violation by the UK.

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Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Jun 17

But like...contextually, it can be.
Why is that a controversial statement. Are we going to pretend that we have solved West-of-Scotland sectarianism? #Flegs

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · Jun 17

Scottish council leaders have apologised after a primary school in Barrhead suggested the Union flag could be considered a sectarian emblem

School sorry for calling Union flag ‘sectarian’

www.thetimes.com

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Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Jun 10

I personally find Kevin mcKenna FASCINATING!

Euan @euan.bsky.social · Jun 10

Kevin McKenna retire bitch

KEVIN MCKENNA | Does Labour have the guts to ditch the trans activism, climatism and Gaza-ology?

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Jun 10

The question I want an answer to is...why have they not changed that rule yet! That "comiclly low number of signitures lets you challenge the literal First Minister" rule?!

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Jun 6

Is she...is she giving this speech from Larkhall? It's hard to tell.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jun 6

Kemi Badenoch asked about the Conservatives coming in a poor fourth in yesterday's Hamilton by-election and almost losing their deposit, she replies that "Larkhall is not the place where the Conservative party fightback starts".

Paul Cruikshank @pashanky.co.uk · Jun 6

Lots of thougths on Hamilton by-election (why is it always Hamilton) but headlines for me are:
- Labour Win.
- SNP vote still not recovering.
- Reform voters previous VID is maybe getting clearer.
- You can say SNP>LAB swing is too small; but the importance of the win is the narrative.