and a final point – you wax lyrical and wring your hands about the inteperate language Stuart uses yet you lazily tar those who may read his content and,heaven forbid, defend him as being partof a cult. Hardly symptomatic of the modern,progressive politics you seem to profess. But it still awaits a mass breakthrough, either in politicians crossing the floor or in the polls. In the meantime the SNP is plunging to new lows, recording just 32% in two polls last week, one of which saw them trailing six points behind Scottish Labour.

The only “non payroll” local SNP people seen around are 3 teenage boys. A constant stream of “payroll” SNP people from out of the area, but no idea how long they hang around after the photo shoots. I wonder if they ever ask themselves WHY they are required? Do they ever ask themselves what happened to the hundred or so local activists that Margaret Ferrier could command? Sarwar will be hoping that the constituency’s enormous historic volatility works in his favour. Rutherglen & Hamilton West has changed hands three times in the last eight years, and we can’t think of many seats anywhere in the UK that have been won with over 50% of the vote by different parties in consecutive elections. If the SNP follows last year’s timing, the Review & Accounts for year ended 31st December 2022 would be published on 30th June 2023. Had they not manufactured the Humza “win” and say, put Kate Forbes in charge, I’m sure SNP would be in a much better position today.Sturgeon legacy is what? She can claim to be the longest serving FM, she couldn’t hold a candle to Alex Salmond record and her only achievement will be the SNP finished for good as a party and yet the new elected FM hasn’t even suspended the Murrells sends all the wrong messages about his leadership and the running of the party. At this present moment for Humza it shouldn’t be friendship his focus should be trying to safe the party and its reputation and the Indy cause I don’t even think its crossed his mind. On the other hand, he's also subject of conspiracy theorists: eccentric alt-journalist David Leask of CommonSpace accused him of being a pro- Putin Russian agent. There's no evidence of this. [22] Controversies [ edit ] He sometimes refers to himself as "Rev Stuart Campbell" but is not a fully-qualified clergyman in a major UK denomination. I hate to break it to you but I would be very surprised if anybody on here actually reads your ‘prose’. I take it when you say ‘the intelligent people’ you are referring to people like yourself? Sorry, but if so, your argument falls flat on it’s face before it has even started. Everybody knows Carlin is not the fizziest tin of Irn Bru in the fridge then along comes ‘confused’ with his/her/it’s attempt at a novel (see Mia). I wonder how many people actually read it far less understand whatever he/she/it is on about?”

But it means you have an open field on Bella to talk about issues like feminism and the environment and provide a space for new voices on these issues which we really do need….Feminism for example is understood as just about equality for women, but there are strands of it which are emancipatory for all of us….a whole different way of thinking about the social roles ascribed to us….. Apologists for Campbell have hidden behind the idea that his “analysis is great”, none of which stands up to scrutiny. Here’s some of his great analysis below. As recently as 2010 Labour’s vote share in the seat was a breathtaking 61%, an astonishing figure even for the era of Labour’s vote being weighed in Scotland rather than counted. But just five years later it saw a record-shattering 31% swing to the SNP’s Margaret Ferrier. When the people of R&HW lose faith in a party, they don’t mess about. In short, while the methods may have changed, the mission has not. I believe that ALBA can serve as a catalyst to unite and energise the independence movement, including the SNP, towards our common goal.

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In some respects Swinney has indeed been useful, for his involvement and actions relating to many contentious aspects over a considerable length of time have furnished us with plenty of evidence to see how he and others like him operate. You can’t be Scottish – happy to erase yer country’s status, deride her & belittle her to being no more than a snivelling servant & slave to the English & should be gagged & bound like a hostage forever, by force would be just delicious eh?

It seems reasonable to assume that the SNP’s fall is going to continue, with lots more bad news looming in its future – Operation Branchform, the likely humiliating loss of the Section 35 challenge in the wake of Lady Dorrian’s judgement this week, the ongoing ferries and trams inquiries and now the already-damaging COVID inquiry.Why is an NHS trust using public money, given as part of a budget approved by Holyrood, for the purpose of healthcare in Scotland, and funded by Scottish taxpayers, to give money for reparations? Who approved that, and on whose authority?”

This will be a challenge. There may be an increased risk that the going concern basis is more difficult for the National Treasurer to justify for the Accounts for the year ended 31st December 2022, particularly if recent events have further placed strain on the cash flow, income & expenditure account and Balance Sheet. I do dig some weeds up from elsewhere on my property and neighbouring land such as large dandelion plants including the roots and put them in a big old pot on the woodburner and boil them up into a soup to kill the seeds, then once it’s cool it gets poured into the wormery so the wrigglies can chomp it all up into compost and worm piss. The fear of a plantation Scotland arises out of irrefutable demographics; in the past decade there has been a huge influx of settlers, in the first instance, English-born looking for cheaper houses, free education, free health services and relatively safe jobs in Scotland’s central belt. And then there are the new Romantics, searching for the ‘good life’ in remote areas, usually settling on islands and deconstructing existing communities while boasting they augment and give life to a withering community. https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23458127.humza-yousaf-denies-snp-going-bankrupt-party-finances-strained/ There will be a convention & we will end the Union & get away from all this ancient guff once & for all cause it’s not worth the paper it’s written on.The dynamic changes when you’re part of a different party. As a member of the SNP, any internal dissent is often seen as disruptive or divisive. But as an external force, Alba can contribute to a broader dialogue that could help refocus the movement. And of course maybe you love Brexit, or maybe you just think it would have been wrong for the rest of the country to have been denied a vote on it, or maybe you think Nigel Farage would have stormed to victory and become Prime Minister as a result or something. But those are all separate arguments. What’s beyond any reasonable doubt is that for good or ill, that’s how it would have panned out. It feels like a member of the family has been tortured and murdered and we’ve just found out for sure who did it. The SNP’s determination to plough on as if there’s nothing to see is just making it all worse. People are reeling as the scale of the treachery sinks in but all we get is pish about meetings about meetings about reports way off over the horizon. It’s just not working anymore and everyone knows it.