Andy Maciver

Founder/Director @messagetweet 📢 ✍🏻 + Wednesdays on @HolyroodSources 🎧 🖥️ + Fridays in @HeraldScotland 📰 💻 + some Mondays @ScotlandTonight 🖥️

[Andy Maciver @akmaciver]

Not too far off…. 👇🏻

[Andy Maciver @akmaciver]

@BBCScotland @mmgeissler @rjcurran2 @AnasSarwar Looks roughly like this if the remaining constituencies are as briefed and the unionist regional votes are similar to the constituency votes:
🟨SNP - 60
⬜️Reform - 18
🟥Labour - 15
🟦Cons - 13
🟩Green - 13
🟧LD - 10

[Holyrood Sources @HolyroodSources]

🆕 From the Scotland 2050 conference in Edinburgh @CalumAM and @akmaciver chat to @Ivan_McKee , @agcolehamilton and @LordMcConnell about trust in politics, and whether Scotland is in need of radical public service reform.

🎧📺 Listen now on your podcast app or watch on YouTube.

[Paul Wilkinson @PaulWilkin24499]

Enjoyed producing on this one- thanks to @HWoodwardSky @dmcbfs @akmaciver for their contributions!

Breakup of the UK not necessarily on the horizon?

[Andy Maciver @akmaciver]

Sherifhall is a perfect example of the difference between a government that writes reports and a government that delivers stuff. Swinney/Flynn will I imagine want to get spades in the ground very quickly to prove they are the latter.

[Colin Beattie MSP for Midlothian North @uartlach]

We must see progress on the Sheriffhall Roundabout project.

Today I asked the Scottish Government for an update and was assured that the Cabinet Secretary is awaiting urgent advice on officials.

I will continue to press the Scottish Government until the project is delivered.

[Holyrood Sources @HolyroodSources]

Good Morning! We’re recording this week’s episode from the Scotland 2050 conference in Edinburgh!

Stay tuned to see who joins us at the Assembly Rooms!

@CalumAM | @akmaciver

[ScotlandTonight @ScotlandTonight]

On #scotnight

🔷 Should the Peter Murrell scandal be subject to a parliamentary inquiry? Former Labour First Minister @LordMcConnell joins us

🔷@HannahKBardell, @akmaciver & @RozFoyer make up our Monday Night Panel

📺 STV at 10:40pm
📱 https://t.co/pGyJqApiP6

[Andy Maciver @akmaciver]

The SNP talks the talk about being like Ireland - time to walk the walk, too.

"Ireland practices the traditional Scottish free-market liberalism which we have, this century, left behind."

More here 👇
https://t.co/k7FUTAiwWX

[Andy Maciver @akmaciver]

Other matters are dominating the news, but the biggest test for the First Minister is actually whether he delivers in the next 5 years. My Friday @heraldscotland column was about why his meeting with the Prime Minister should be about the devolution of Corporation Tax. 1/2

[BBC Scotland News @BBCScotlandNews]

Natalie Higgins is joined in the studio by political correspondent Lynsey Bews and Andy Maciver from the Holyrood Sources podcast to talk about how John Swinney is handling the Peter Murrell scandal.

Listen to Scotcast: https://t.co/TENzaR56sF

[Holyrood Sources @HolyroodSources]

🆕@CalumAM, @geoffaberdein and @akmaciver reflect on the SNP finance scandal as former Chief Executive, Peter Murrell, pleads guilty to embezzlement.

🎧📺Listen on your podcast app or on YouTube.

[Andy Maciver @akmaciver]

Tell me we wouldn’t be better off if Blair was still PM, and I’ll call you a liar.

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

Keir Starmer should rip up Ed Miliband’s “unnecessary” net zero agenda, Tony Blair tells #TimesRadio.

“It’s not that I'm a climate denier, but it's just coming to terms with this reality.”

@CalumAM

[Andy Maciver @akmaciver]

By @simeonkerr in today’s @FT, with some thoughts from me https://t.co/EKR8dVrSo5

[Holyrood Sources @HolyroodSources]

“The success of the Swinney government will be how different it can be”

@akmaciver sums up his thoughts on how John Swinney can be successful as First Minister now he has a mandate of his own.

[Holyrood Sources @HolyroodSources]

“That involves you leaving behind a lot of 2016 SNP policy”

@akmaciver asks whether the SNP has been too focused on welfare and if now is the time to try to grow Scotland’s economy. @StephenFlynnSNP argues that his party can achieve both.

Is this an unrealistic expectation for the SNP government?

[Andy Maciver @akmaciver]

My thoughts in today's @heraldscotland on why independence might be closer than you think.

"The unionist political parties in the Scottish Parliament are a bit like Blockbuster video."

https://t.co/sTAbl9ycfY

[The Herald @heraldscotland]

@heraldscotland https://t.co/0qyuYQ8i85

@akmaciver

[The Herald @heraldscotland]

'There's really only three things at this point required for independence to be back on the table'

Andy Maciver says unionists can’t see how close independence actually is 👇

[Andy Maciver @akmaciver]

In tomorrow’s @heraldscotland :

“there is a trend which the unionist parties cannot see coming; that Scotland is closer to independence today than it was the day before the independence referendum in 2014.”

Read it here tomorrow: https://t.co/pzbDTNsTS6

[Holyrood Sources @HolyroodSources]

🆕Three brand new MSPs - one potential Cabinet Minister..

@kath14sangster, @Malcolm_Offord & @StephenFlynnSNP join us in Edinburgh, hours after the First Minister was elected, hours before the Cabinet is appointed.

@CalumAM | @akmaciver | @geoffaberdein

https://t.co/dgWNTTJHqW

[Jack McConnel - Dumfries & Galloway @jackmcconnelDG]

💯👇

Is the current brand for Scottish Labour *really* best for pro-UK pro-devolution democratic socialism in Scotland?

[Holyrood Sources @HolyroodSources]

Would further fiscal autonomy for the Scottish Parliament lead to independence?

Would further powers bring Scotland one step closer to independence… or would it be, as @akmaciver puts it, ‘the best strategy unionists have’?

@CalumAM @geoffaberdein