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Your Party Scotland@handle.invalid · 5mo ago

All 12 members of the Interim Scottish Executive Committee (ISEC) have unanimously left their roles and pledged to help form a new party. Niall Christie, the sole Scotland rep on Your Party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC), has also resigned with immediate effect. Full statement below (1/2)

ISEC update Your Party Scotland Interim Scottish Executive Committee in mass resignationInterim SEC Resignation Monday, 13 April, 2026 Last December, after the Liverpool founding conference, a group of representatives from Your Party Scotland proto-branches were chosen by members to form the Scottish Conference Organising Group (SCOG). After our Dundee conference, SCOG became the Interim Scottish Executive Committee (ISEC) as per the documents passed by the conference and became the interim leadership of YPS. We were all volunteers from different parts of the country and immediately started to work closely together. Some of us didn’t know each other, some had never been actively involved in politics but we all shared a common goal: to deliver a strong, structured and member-led founding conference, and we succeeded. We drafted the Your Party Scotland founding documents, which were then amended by members through assemblies and ratified at our Dundee conference in February.At the conference, members voted to stand candidates at the Holyrood election in May, we voted in favour of organisational independence and dual membership, and we voted for an elected SEC to be in place by the beginning of April. Since then, we have faced constant undermining and delays by the UK party. Our clear asks to progress our conference mandates have been consistently ignored, resulting in our inability to run candidates in the Holyrood election and to elect a permanent SEC. Scotland’s sole CEC rep on the CEC has been consistently excluded and overruled on Scottish matters without basis. Requests to discuss these issues with Your Party’s leadership across Britain have been resoundingly ignored. The most egregious example of their disdain towards our members came when the UK party overruled the decision made at conference to stand in the Holyrood elections by rerunning the vote mere days before the deadline after ignoring our simple requests to progress this work for weeks beforehand. The email sent to Scottish members last Friday afternoon from Your Party UK is the final insult.Having ignored Scotland’s elected representatives, blocked the Scottish party from standing in our national elections, and prevented Scottish members from electing an executive, the UK party informed members of their plan to install an unelected leadership over members’ heads which it appears will re-examine decisions already voted on and settled by Scottish members. It is absurd to expect a political party in Scotland can be dictated to by England, and it is antidemocratic to try and overrule any outcomes the ruling English faction simply does not like. As a result of this consistent denial of autonomy for Scotland, and a willingness by the UK leadership to sideline an entire nation by withholding funding and mailing lists and refusing to engage, we have, after careful thought and consideration, taken the collective decision to resign our positions on ISEC, having found ourselves completely blocked when we attempted to carry out the clear mandate set for us by members from across Scotland.
Your Party Glasgow@yourpartyglasgow.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Thanks to @scotnational.bsky.social for this on the People's Budget put forward by @thisisyourparty.bsky.social councillors. Councillors of all parties can choose to further decimate the communities they represent, or invest in real change. The choice is theirs. www.thenational.scot/news/2587660...

Your Party councillors to propose 'no cuts' budget for Glasgow

YOUR Party councillors in Glasgow are set to propose a “no cuts” budget for the local authority.

thenational.scot

Your Party Glasgow@yourpartyglasgow.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Today was Full Council in Glasgow, with our three Your Party councillors representing working people from across the city. With Glasgow’s budget early next year, and our councillors’ contributions being led by local members, now is the perfect time to get involved and have your say on your city.

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Your Party Glasgow@yourpartyglasgow.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Today was Full Council in Glasgow, with our three Your Party councillors representing working people from across the city. With Glasgow’s budget early next year, and our councillors’ contributions being led by local members, now is the perfect time to get involved and have your say on your city.

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Your Party Glasgow@yourpartyglasgow.bsky.social · 10mo ago

For any Your Party Scotland members in Liverpool this weekend, join us on Saturday night for a Fringe gathering from 7pm at the Quaker Meeting House. Open from 7 and starting at 7.30, it's a short walk from the conference centre and bang in the city centre. Come along.

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Your Party Glasgow@yourpartyglasgow.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Earlier this week we saw blatant anti-Chinese racism from one of Labour's MPs right here in Glasgow, while the political establishment fawned over his use of biscuits to talk down to the public. Your Party will stand up to all forms of racism, supporting the thousands of Chinese people in Glasgow.

An image of Leodhas Massie with a quote reading: “Glasgow South deserves better than this language - that wouldn’t even be at home in Nigel Farage’s Reform Party. But clearly, the Prime Minister is more bothered about keeping his own job in Number 10 than rooting out the bigotry among his own ranks.”
Your Party Glasgow@yourpartyglasgow.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Due to a cancellation of our venue at the Pyramid at Anderston, bookings for our Glasgow West regional assembly tomorrow will now be moved elsewhere. Most of those who had booked for the event at the Pyramid will be moved to Clyde Community Hall in Ibrox.

Zarah Sultana MP@zarahsultana.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Young people aren’t just part of this movement, they must be the engine driving it. From trans rights to a party that backs renters over landlords, the fight for maximum member democracy matters so we can build a party led by its members, not MPs. I had a great time in Manchester discussing this!

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Zarah Sultana MP@zarahsultana.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Last month I wrote to the Foreign Secretary about the detention of British journalist Sami Hamdi by U.S. authorities — a deeply troubling case for press freedom and human rights. I’m relieved to hear that he’s set to be released and will return home to his family soon.

House of Commons headed letter: The Rt Honourable Yvette Cooper MP Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs Sent via email 29 October 2025 Dear Foreign Secretary, Re: Urgent concern regarding the detention of British journalist Sami Hamdi by U.S. authorities I am writing to raise my serious concerns about the case of Sami Hamdi, a British citizen, journalist and political commentator whose visa was revoked by the U.S. Department of State and who was subsequently detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at San Francisco International Airport. Mr Hamdi entered the U.S. on 19 October 2025 on a visitor visa for public engagements and was on a speaking tour when his visa was revoked on 24 October 2025. Shortly thereafter, he was detained by ICE and is pending removal. Advocacy groups including the International Federation of Journalists have expressed serious concern that his detention appears to be linked to his public commentary and criticism of Israeli government policy and U.S. foreign policy alignments. Given the profound implications of this case for free expression and human rights, I urge you to: • Raise Mr Hamdi's case at the highest diplomatic levels with your U.S. counterpart as a matter of urgency. • Request immediate formal consular access to Mr Hamdi. • Press the U.S. authorities for a full and transparent explanation of the grounds for his visa revocation and detention. • Demand Mr Hamdi's return home safely without delay. • Publicly challenge the apparent use of immigration enforcement as a tool of political repression. I appreciate your urgent attention to this matter and would welcome any updates on the steps that can be taken to ensure Mr Hamdi's safe and immediate return home to his family. Yours sincerely, Zarah Sultana MP Member of Parliament for Coventry South