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THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Scottish Left-Separatist Sentenced for Sexual Offending Against Boys and Young Men Ahead of Crunch Elections. Wed May 6 16:02:58 2026

The sentencing of Jordan Linden, a former Scottish National Party (SNP) council leader convicted of multiple sexual offenses, comes a day before critical elections for the Scottish government

. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: A former Scottish National Party (SNP) council leader was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Wednesday after being convicted of multiple sex offenses, including sexual assault and inappropriate communication with young men and boys. This comes just ahead of crunch elections to the Scottish Parliament—roughly equivalent to a U.S. state legislature—on May 7. WHEN & WHERE: The sentencing took place on Wednesday at Falkirk Sheriff Court in Scotland. DETAIL: Jordan Linden, a former leader of North Lanarkshire Council, has been convicted of 10 sexual offenses . Linden’s offenses span a 10-year period between 2011 and 2021. Over the course of several years, multiple investigations were conducted into…Open

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THENATIONALPULSE (Raheem J. Kassam) - Britain’s Feckless Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, May be Jobless After Tomorrow’s Elections. Here’s How… Wed May 6 11:19:57 2026

On Thursday, voters across England, Scotland, and Wales head to the polls in the most fragmented set of British elections in living memory — with projections pointing to the simultaneous collapse of two-party politics across all three nations.

■ Pulse Points / Reformation Day England — 5,066 council seats are up across 136 local authorities, including all 32 London boroughs and six directly-elected mayors (Croydon, Hackney, Lewisham, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Watford). A recent prediction from polling group ‘More in Common’ found that Nigel Farage’s Reform UK could win in excess of 1,400 of these seats, with the Greens picking up just shy of 1,000. The historic “two major parties,” the Conservatives and Labour, would lose over 2,500 seats between them, with Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party bearing the largest loss. The combined Labour-Conservative share of all English council seats already sits at 57% — its lowest point since the 1970s. Scotland — All 129…Open

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