🚸 Our Scottish Child Payment is helping lift 100,000 kids out of poverty 🏥 Under the SNP, Scotland has the best-performing A&E core units in the UK ⚡️ We've made Scotland a renewable energy powerhouse 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 FM John Swinney sets out his plan to deliver for Scotland in Scottish Parliament.

📢 SNP MSP Kenny Gibson asked First Minister John Swinney about Labours cut to the winter fuel payment while giving the Scotland office cash to spend in devolved areas.

🔥 FM John Swinney at #FMQs: "Child poverty is so high because Scotland has suffered 14 years of Conservative austerity and welfare cuts." 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The SNP has taken major steps to mitigate Westminster austerity, like the Scottish Child Payment - keeping 100,000 kids out of poverty.

Good luck to everyone involved in the first Lanarkshire Climate Action Festival. 🌱 It will take place from the 9th to 22nd of September 2024, to celebrate community climate action. It brings together community groups, organisations and companies from across Lanarkshire.

Well done to Glasgow for once again showing up. Those opposing racism massively outnumbering the handful of far-right thugs that bothered turning up. Kudos to Stand Up to Racism - Scotland and all of those involved in opposing hatred in our country. #NaePasaran

What will Scottish Labour MPs do? They represent constituencies and a whole country that’s colder in winter than rUK - and in summer. Folk on Western Isles say heating has been on all summer. Courage or conformity?

"I urge you to do the right thing, protect Scottish pensioners and defend Scotland's budget by voting against Keir Starmer's winter fuel payment cuts tomorrow.” Stephen Flynn MP heraldscotland.com/news/24570651.…

Benefit fraud, which is tiny, is said to be a scourge which must be crushed. But straight corruption involving public bodies, politicians and their cronies is just fine.

📣 The Scottish Government has spent £750m since 2019 on mitigating the impacts of UK Gov policies like the benefit cap & bedroom tax. 🧮 In the last year alone, £134m has been spent by The SNP gov on mitigating the impact of these policies. 📉 This is the true cost of Westminster rule.

First Minister John Swinney visited Buckie to officially open the new state of the art operations and maintenance base developed by Ocean Winds. The base will serve Moray West offshore wind farm and support more than 60 long-term, local jobs.

I will be voting AGAINST the Labour Party’s proposals on the Winter Fuel Payment. Let’s see how many Scottish Labour MPs vote against this proposal.

Today, I will vote against Labour’s plan to cut winter fuel payments. How will your MP vote?

Blair McDougall Labour MP on GMS totally evades answering why Labour won't introduce the 1% tax rise on the wealthiest suggested by Sharon Graham of UNITE. A rise that would raise £25 billion. "VAT on pvt school fees, non dom", blah blah blah. PS Where's Anas Sarwar?

As Scottish Labour MPs trot through the lobbies to cut off pensioners’ Winter Fuel Payments a reminder of what the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar promised a few short weeks go. I do hope he’ll be pinned down repeatedly by journalists on this for years to come. #ReadMyLips

🥀 Labour damaging plan to end the Winter Fuel Payment for millions of pensioners will hit communities right across Scotland. 👉 SNP MPs have voted against these draconian cuts - all 37 of Scottish Labour’s MPs voted to implement the cut.

There were no Scottish Labour MPs in the Chamber for the Winter Fuel Payment debate. Remember the Record's front page?

Labour has blown it already. Two months in. What a waste of hope & belief for the millions who banked on them. What they’re doing is so damaging to democracy. If voters fled the Tories, only to get this ‘Austerity with a Smile’ shit then where else can they go? We store up danger

“There is palpable anger from the public that the Labour Party is choosing to balance the books on the backs of the poorest members of society. “George Osborne did it before - and Rachel Reeves is repeating the trick” Stephen Flynn MP on Labour’s winter fuel cuts to pensioners

Deputy First Minister @_kateforbes and Acting Energy Secretary Gillian Martin launched the Strategy at Flowcopter which is developing a heavy-lift drone suitable for use by the offshore wind industry.