📣 Dr Evil with his secret plan & mini-me AkA @JohnSwinney & @StephenFlynnSNP preform #500miles Dance Duo to bring the #SNPConference To a close #SNP25 #AreYouYesYet #YesScotland #ScottishIndependence 🕺

Highlight from the #SNPConference #SNP25

John Swinney has a secret plan…. 🤫 So secret even John Swinney doesn’t know what it is…. #SNPConference #SNP25

It was great to catch up with #EmmaHarper MSP at the recent SNP Party conference. A lengthy discussion on a number of topics including deer management, UPFs in school meals, and muirburn. We look forward to having further conversations in the future. #SNP25 #SNPConference

Women's Rights coming under threat from the far right??? When asked as the SNP Scottish Government’s Justice Secretary "Are Isla Bryson and Tiffany Scott women in your view??". Keith Brown "I think that is the case" @Glinner @SexMattersOrg @JamesEsses #SNPout #SNPconference

The SNP don’t speak for the majority of people in Scotland @theSNP stands proudly with terrorists not #Scotland #NotInMyName #Ban_Islam #IStandWithIsrael #Gaza #Palestine #SNPConference #SNP25 #Israel

18 years and what to show for it?? The Baby Box! #SNPout #DishonestJohn 🤡 #SNPconference

No coverage whatsoever on live TV of the First Minister’s speech to the #snpconference. We got the Labour PM’s speech, Tory Leader’s speech and Reform Leader’s speech beamed into Scotland. Yet no coverage of the SNP Conference. The bias and exclusion is palpable.

Jake caught up with First Minister John Swinney at the #SNPConference over the weekend and asked him whether rural issues will be included in the upcoming SNP manifesto for the 2026 elections. Full report to follow soon. #SNP25 #rural #RuralAffairs @JohnSwinney

Just watched the fantastic speech by Kate Forbes to the #SNPconference . What a sad loss to Government she will be.

Taxi driver on way to conference.. "Quite happy with the way it is" (voted no) "If it had been a yes vote, I wouldn't have been bothered we'd just get on with it" 🤷‍♀️ #SNPConference Make of that what you will.

The massive number of health calls taking up officers’ time is “crippling” the ability of Scotland’s national force to police the country, the organisation representing rank and file officers has warned. David Threadgold, chairman of the Scottish Police Federation (SPF), said officers told him that between 40% and 60% of their capacity is now devoted to dealing with health calls. He said the issue is now the “biggest external inhibitor to our ability to deliver policing”. During a fringe event at the SNPconference, Mr Threadgold said police are now the “default security guards” at A&E units. He said officers are consistently spending hours with Scots facing health issues because of failings in the health system. Community safety minister Siobhian Brown, who joined Mr Threadgold at the event, said the issue was “unacceptable”. At the fringe in Aberdeen, Mr Threadgold also warned that the under-25 guidelines in Scotland were “off the mark” and that the “deterrent value of being caught in Scotland is largely non-existent”. And he said Police Scotland must have the ability to borrow money and carry over its budget to the next year. Mr Threadgold said: “My colleagues across Scotland tell me that the challenges that are presented within the health sector mean that police officers are picking up between 40%, 50%, 60% of our operational capacity, which is taken up by dealing with health calls.” He said the issue meant officers were forced to divert attention away from crime, adding: “If I am an operational supervisor and half of my time to deliver safer communities to deal with online child exploitation, to deal with anything that you can think of that the police might be involved in, if we lose half of our extent or more because of something we cannot control, then there has to be reform across the public sector in Scotland if we are going to deliver the policing service that the public, I believe, expects.” The SPF chairman said “the police have now become default security guards at accident and emergency units” across the country.” He added: “My contention is that the handover piece between the police and health is broken, or indeed non-existent, and that is crippling our ability to deliver policing in Scotland.” During the fringe event, Mr Threadgold criticised Scotland’s under-25 guidelines, which make it less likely for young people to go to prison if they commit a crime. He said that he agreed with the principle of the policy, but said in practice it was “way off the mark”. He added: “Having spoken to youngsters and having spoken to cops this morning who are dealing with these situations time and time again, the deterrent value of being caught in Scotland is largely non-existent.” The community safety minister described the pressures facing police from taking health calls as “unacceptable”, adding: “I appreciate that we expect police time shouldn’t be there.” She said the Scottish Government had to “grab the bull by the horns” to ensure police time is not taken up by health matters. Ms Brown said it was a priority for her and Justice Secretary Angela Constance that the challenges facing the emergency services are dealt with. Speaking about the under-25 guidelines, the minister said that it was important to “acknowledge that it doesn’t mean anyone under 25 doesn’t go to jail”, adding that young people who commit crimes will be punished. Link to the article: independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…

Following his speech at the #snpconference, H.E. Ambassador @hzomlot met leaders and members of the Palestinian community and support networks at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.

Russ Abbot's What an atmosphere comes to mind!!! 😂 #SNPconference

This weekend at the SNP Conference, it is clear that rural issues are not high on the agenda. We are engaging with MSPs to ensure rural issues feature in the upcoming SNP manifesto. Keep an eye out on socials for further updates. #SNPConference #SNP25

if Starmer could calm down, stop the overseas visits ….and put the SNP in its place about the whether they’ll have a mandate for a referendum, constitutionally they won’t, he should grow some and shut the bams up #SNPconference

#DishonestJohn smiling away like a buffoon as his latest joke of a white paper is torn to shreds!! #SNPconference

Behold Swinney’s Magic Sporran: lighting up a path to Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Independence that only he can see. #SNP25 #SNP #SNPconference

Aberdeen here we come #SNPConference

At #SNPConference, Susan Aitken said we “need to build hooses for everyone”, yet Glasgow is full of new student flats while families wait years for a home. One man was told he’d wait 5 years for a 1-bed with his children. Another, wheelchair-bound, is trapped in a flooding basement flat. That’s not housing for everyone, that’s failure.