Euan Davidson 🔶🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 🇺🇦

Liberal Democrat Cllr for Corstorphine& Murrayfield. Edinburgh Lib Dem spokesperson on Education, Children and Families

[Euan Davidson 🔶🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @euandavidson]

Published & promoted by Euan Davidson on behalf of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, at 4 Clifton Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5DR.

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

1/ Hannah Mary Goodlad makes a blatantly false claim about the relative performance of Scotland’s economy in parliament today.

The truth: between Q1 2016 and Q1 2026, real GDP growth in Scotland was 6.8% vs real GDP growth of 13.7% for the UK over the same period.

[Sarah Jones @SarahJonestoo]

This clip shows what an embarrassing mess the EHRC guidance is. Mary-Ann Stephenson knows it is a mess and states no criminal offence is committed by a trans person using toilets aligning with their gender. It's a useless policy, fixing a problem which does not exist.

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Isshayya_]

It's absolutely baffling to see the backlash against this announcement.

Imagine complaining that the UK is securing a multi-billion-pound private investment.

Let's look at the actual numbers: taxpayers are funding £1.3bn for local roads & a new rail station. In return, Universal is spending £5 billion to build the park and another £1 billion operating it.

Bedford(& the UK) gets 28,000 total jobs, a massive revitalization of a former industrial site, & a projected £50 billion economic boost.

The sheer cynicism around projects like this is exactly what holds the UK back. If we treat massive, job-creating investments as something to be outraged about, we only guarantee our own economic stagnation.

[zز 🍒🇵🇸🇱🇧 | 🇲🇦🇩🇿🇧🇪🇳🇴🇪🇸🇧🇦 @z_00pIz]

The left must stop excusing homophobia, sexism, and other conservative beliefs under the guise of cultural or religious differences, doing so does more harm than good to any progressive movement, there is no justification for prejudice, and these views should not be given a pass

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

I call BS.

The facts are these:
Henry Nowak told officers he'd been stabbed. He told them he couldn't breathe. An officer replied, “I don't think you have, mate”. They dragged him along the ground and handcuffed him. He died before anyone called an ambulance.

No DEI course teaches you to ignore a dying man. Officers have a duty to assess injured persons, call for medical assistance, and not take one party's word as gospel. They failed on all three.

This is incompetence repackaged as ideological victimhood. “DEI made us feel certain ways” shifts anger from officers who let a teenager die onto a culture-war target. That's their defence strategy.

Henry told them he was dying. They didn't listen. They didn't follow protocol. That's a conduct and skill problem, not a DEI problem.

[Jackie Baillie @jackiebmsp]

Observations on the interview by Nicola Sturgeon today.

This is not about her being responsible for her husband’s crimes, this is about her responsibility as party leader and FM. She and others bullied and intimidated members of the NEC and silenced those who asked questions.1/5

[Benjamin Butterworth @benjaminbutter]

Gay men stay in the closet out of fear, not for some fun game. When women find themselves married to gay men - traumatic, I don’t doubt - ask why society terrified generations into desperately trying to fulfil straight people’s expectations, rather than be themselves.

[Euan Davidson 🔶🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @euandavidson]

Young people who make mistakes when they move out can often return to the family home. Care experienced young people deserve the same rights.

[fey little witch hunter 🇵🇸🕊️ @goodbyeleninxcx]

New ECHR rules say that it is discrimination to accuse someone who "manifests the belief that same sex sexual activity is sinful" of being homophobic

Thanks LGB Alliance! Great work guys!

[Edinburgh Lib Dems 🔶 @EdinburghLibDem]

PASSED: Cllr Euan Davdison's Motion to limit the screen time in early years nurseries will come to the next Education committee.

Children deserve the freedom to be children. https://t.co/FWR638OpVX

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

This is a devious rhetorical trick. Labeling someone a “Nakba survivor” is designed to evoke instant sympathy and a false sense of moral clarity, but it is little more than taxpayer-funded propaganda.

Consider the absurdity: roughly 99% of Palestinian Arabs alive in 1949 survived the war and its displacements. Calling the displaced a “survivor” stretches the word beyond recognition. It is a newly coined term, crafted in academia and activist circles long after the events.

Its real genius lies in creating false equivalence. It places ordinary Palestinian civilians who were displaced amid a war their own leaders launched on the same moral plane as Holocaust survivors (of whom only about one-third emerged alive).

It airbrushes away the ~6,000 Jews killed in 1948, elevates the ~12,000 Arab deaths, and erases the thousands of Jews forcibly expelled from the Old City of Jerusalem and other areas.

By anointing the displaced as sacred “survivors,” the term invites us to forget that the Nazi-aligned Palestinian leadership rejected the UN partition plan, chose war to prevent any Jewish state, and promised quick victory while urging Arabs to flee.

It glosses over Israel’s Declaration of Independence, which explicitly invited Arab inhabitants to “participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship.” And it conveniently overlooks the ~150,000 Arabs who stayed put, accepted Israeli citizenship, and whose descendants now form over 20% of Israel’s population.

This is international grievance politics pushed by the Mayor of New York City, who genuinely believes that Palestinians should be able to “return to their homes” – a nonsensical idea designed to justify perpetual victimhood and violence.

The move weaponizes real civilian hardship while inverting roles: turning a war of choice and rejectionism into an unprovoked “catastrophe” inflicted by the intended victims. It sustain grievance and does not nothing to advance peace.

[Kayleigh K O’Neill @KayleighFONeill]

Hi Joanna. That's me in the top right. I'm a lesbian.

I'm also not scared of trans people. I am scared of bigots wanting to roll back our community's rights.

[Euan Davidson 🔶🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @euandavidson]

@FinlayMcF Thank you! So pleased.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

To the men in my replies saying “But the repression of women in Iran is overstated; it’s not as bad as in Afghanistan”. This is *not* the hot take you think it is. Here’s why:

1. You’re acknowledging that Afghanistan has the worst female human rights record on the planet.

2. You recognise Iranian women are denied fundamental rights by a misogynistic system but you think that’s OK — as long as it’s not worse than the worst (Afghanistan).

3. You think universal human rights are granted to women by men. No, they are not. We have them; men just deny them to us.

4. Women too can be complicit in a political, cultural and religious patriarchy. That doesn’t make it right or fair.

5. The deprivation of women’s legal rights in Iran are baked into law - which is also a facet of apartheid regimes.

6. Govts that have been complicit in genocide - like US & Israel do raise the issue of Iranian women’s rights. That doesn’t make it untrue or overstated. It makes them hypocrites.

There are a plethora of UN, Amnesty & HRW reports you can avail yourself of..

7. Stop reducing the discussion around human and legal rights to whether or not you’ve seen pictures of women in Iran wearing a miniskirt or a burkha.

No society is equal without equal rights for women and men.

[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

Bailey is the third gender-critical campaigner to have had her lawsuit fail in a single month. She’s also the most high-profile, being the co-founder of @allianceLGB and a personal friend of @jk_rowling.

A major blow to the GC movement. Here's how it played out 🧵

[James Hanson @jhansonradio]

FIFA inventing a peace prize to give to Trump is beyond parody…

#WorldCup2026

[Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel @_LDFI]

This is Palestine Action.

[Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel @_LDFI]

Be in no doubt. This is what this gesture means.