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Holyrood’s departing Presiding Officer has raised concerns about the future of politics in Scotland as she warned the job had become increasingly toxic.
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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Events, rides etc.
2026 SP/Holyrood election
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The seat-by-seat breakdown of the poll, carried out for The National by Electoral Calculus and Find Out Now, suggests that apart from Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton winning in Edinburgh North Western and Labour’s Daniel Johnson holding on to Edinburgh Southern, all the rest of the constituencies in Edinburgh and the Lothians would be won by the SNP.On the regional list, the Conservatives would keep only one of the three they won at the last Holyrood election, Labour would retain both of theirs, the Lib Dems would win one, as would Reform, and the Greens would retain both of theirs.
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'...a Green activist...'
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Nice one! Three 'vote green' signs on our street. No other ones yet, I think.
Hustings for Edinburgh Central tonight: https://edinburgh.anglican.org/event/hustings/
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The SNP has pledged to commission a full feasibility study on bringing Edinburgh's South Suburban railway line back into use with tram-trains if it is returned to power at Holyrood.
And the party's election manifesto, launched in Glasgow on Thursday, also declared opposition to the Roseburn Path being used for the city's new North-South tramline.
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A quick overview of cycling in the various 2026 Scottish Parliament election manifestos:
SNP: A £2.5 million bike repair scheme providing 33,000 people with grants of £75 towards bike repair costs.
Labour: Nothing.
Lib Dem: Nothing.
Green: 10% of transport budget for active travel, speed limit reductions, national walking and cycling networks 'blueprint', extend the national cycle network, plus other minor related measures.
Reform UK: Support for recreation focused cycle paths in rural areas.
Conservative: The Tories would "...end the obsession with cycle lanes and instead encourage councils only to build cycle lanes that do not impede on road space and are clearly segregated from pavements".Cycling is clearly now out of political favour at the national level, most probably due to culture war attacks on it as elitist and a desire amongst parties to appeal to the "hard working motorist". Regardless of your political persuasion, it appears we will be dependent on the Scottish Greens to exercise any influence they have to protect future active travel budgets.
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The Scottish Family Party are 'in favour' (although transport seems lower on their priorities than stopping transgender)
[...]Government policy should make provision for ongoing affordable car use.
[...]We oppose the drive for ever lower speed limits and ever more artificial restrictions on car use in cities.
[...]The Scottish Government’s 20 Minute Neighbourhoods scheme, adopted by many councils, focuses on inhibiting car use rather than providing more accessible local services and amenities. [...] We oppose any scheme to restrict, ration or regulate journeys between “neighbourhoods”. [...]Safe cycleways should be extended by further integration into pavement areas where this is possible.
When I say 'in favour' I mean they are in favour of bicycles provided they stay out of the way and don't impede traffic flow...
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Thanks
Someone has to skim the Manifestos
Don’t know why the SNP uses Issue - more unwieldy to view and search than a PDF.
It’s true that ‘cycling’ has gone (more) out of favour.
The reasons are many and varied -
Apart from ‘bad press’ (which is undoubtedly a factor - fuelled [sic] by ‘motorists’ and industry) the failure to meet unrealistic targets is a problem Govs don’t want to have
The use of Sustrans as an arms length cash spending conduit has not been wholly successful.
The strictures LAs have to work under - cash, processes, extreme consultation culture is damaging to realistic/sensible progress.
The highly dubious actions of some politicians
Yes I still blame SA.
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Big boundary changes this time mean the Edinburgh Southern constituency has moved further south, keeping most of Morningside, but losing Bruntsfield, Merchiston, Marchmont and The Grange, while adding areas like Fairmilehead, Gracemount and Southhouse.What the effect of the changes might be remains to be seen, but Daniel Johnson takes comfort from the fact that the redrawn Holyrood constituency is "completely within the Westminster seat".
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Safe cycleways should be extended by further integration into pavement areas where this is possible.
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This is extreme
(Extreme nonsense)
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In other news, the Scottish 'Family' Party want kids to be killed because of increased speed limits and more driving
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Well I've never met a pro-lifer who gave a hoot about childrens' lives after they've been squeezed out onto Hellworld before, why would they change now.
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This might be of interest to some here:
MSP candidate hustings on the UoE crisis, 29 April, 4:30pm (tbc)
A collaboration of student societies is hoping to host a hustings on central campus. Venue and time is to be confirmed, but likely 4.30pm next Wednesday, 29 April. Representatives from the political parties vying to win in Edinburgh, and particularly the Edinburgh Central constituency where the University is situated, will be invited to answer questions from staff and students about their views on management’s proposed budget cuts and their consequences for staff and students; concerns about accountability and transparency related to the current governance system for universities; and their vision for the University and Higher Education in Scotland more broadly. More information coming early next week—watch this space!
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Cameron Rose led the Tories to a second place finish with 18 seats in the 2017 City of Edinburgh Council elections.
Now, the former councillor, who was quoted as saying that climate 'doomsday predictions' were not 'borne out by the science' in 2019, will stand in Edinburgh South Western.
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Something has eaten SRD’s recent post
Can’t explain
Concerned as this is second vanished post today
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Something has eaten SRD’s recent post, AGAIN (today)
Can’t explain
Concerned as this is repeating
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I'm hearing that AI bots are targeting anything to do with "climate" or "nature" or "rewilding".
For example, flooding climate-related events with bogus ticket applications, so that genuine people cannot attend.
Is it a stretch to imagine CCE could be targeted the same way...?
So sad to see that humanity has reached such levels of depravity
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@neddie not this time.
I'd forgotten that cutting and pasting from bluesky always fouls up posts on here.
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I simply made a comment about big bikes taking u more space than wee bikes n trains and that was vanished.
I don’t think conspiracy I think the platform is just getting a bit creaky.
I did notice that someone kept picking u p the Reform banner thing after it was repeatedly kicked over and trodden on at my place of employment which has been a wee polling station today
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Counting gets under way - results expected around teatime
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But polling organisation the Diffley Partnership yesterday produced a final seat projection based on the last five polls of the campaign by YouGov, Ipsos, Norstat, Survation and More in Common.
Nationally, it showed the SNP with 56 seats, nine short of an overall majority, Reform in second place with 19 seats, Labour third with 18, the Greens fourth with 16, followed by the Conservatives with 11 and the Lib Dems with nine.
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Peter Kellner, the elections expert and former YouGov president, has posted a good analysis of the results so far on his Substack blog. It is well worth reading in full, but here’s an extract.
Behind the impressive tally of Reform’s gains – likely to end up well over 1,000 – Nigel Farage should be privately worried. In last year’s local elections Reform won 41 per cent of all seats contested across England. On the basis of the overnight figures, this year’s tally is around 33 per cent. If there were no polls, and there had been no elections last year, this year’s figure would be astonishing. But we do have the record of recent polls and elections, and it seems clear that Reform has peaked …
In contrast to Reform, Labour has cause for relief, despite losing half the seats it was defending yesterday. It’s bad – and in normal times it would be catastrophic – but it’s not as bad as its record in local council by-elections over the past 12 months, where it hast lost three-quarters of the seats it was defending …
However, even on the most optimistic interpretation of Labour’s performance, the overnight figures contain a stark warning. John Curtice told BBC viewers in the early hours that while Labour has lost many SEATS to Reform, it has lost VOTES more to the Greens.“
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SNP has conceded Ed Central to Greens (allegedly)
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Yes looks like Lorna is in. LibDem 'patio party' have retained Orkney. ACH will be hopeful that his many journeys up and down the A9 in his EV bear fruit in Highland areas. For some their 'beyond politics' approach may appeal. The LDs constantly dismiss constitutional question unlike the Tories & Labour.
Watching from South Africa. May be on news as minor notelet.
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Turnout in Edinburgh North Eastern and Leith at 57%
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Ed South Western
SNP ‘hold’ now Simita Kumar (CEC Cllr + bicycle rider)
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Sanne Dijkstra-Downie, Scottish Lib Dem wins Edinburgh Northern
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