Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more bizarre, the SNP decide to shoot their other foot off!
Remember when the Labour Party were imploding many years ago with this sort of garbage? The SNP have now proved that they have fully adopted the mantle they took over in 2007 with a party split between careerists and entryism – all of whom have forgotten what they were supposed to be fighting for.
A few days ago in the wake of the mass trans-resignation, Nicola Sturgeon came out on social media to beg the malcontents to come back. This group of people have as much interest in independence as I have of going to the Last Night of the Proms. Had the Labour Party still been in power these same folk would have gone there instead. Whatever has the best chance of furthering their own personal agendas.
Only a few days later they have gone full on Loony-Left Labour with a bizarre (and again legally dubious) plan to shoehorn in minority interest groups to the top of the Regional Lists, ahead of others who might have expected to be there on merit.
I’ve already petitioned Holyrood about the abuse of the list system. They are just trolling us now.
Just got round to reading this in its entirety – If this was a movie it would be dismissed as being too far-fetched:Senior elected SNP members leaking internal information to the press.The Crown Office leaking details of prosecutions to the press.A political conspiracy to destroy the reputation of their former boss, to ensure that he can never come back to politics.Malicious reports to the police by seedy politicians (now that I can believe) to put pressure on their enemies.Silencing journalists who support the victim of the conspiracy by threatening them with going to jail.Many people think that Nicola Sturgeon has done a fantastic job managing the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland and are willing to turn a blind eye to her involvement in this because of their support for independence. That’s just wrong.That’s like turning a blind eye to the abuse carried out by Jimmy Saville because he did a lot of work for charity.If you only read one article today (and it’s lockdown – what else have you got to do), read this one.
On Sunday I went into my local shop to pick up the Sunday National and saw the front page proclaiming the launch of another independence task force by the SNP. I’m afraid your paper stayed on the shelf as I just couldn’t bring myself to even turn the page. In the movie ‘As Good as It Gets’ Jack Nicholson’s character utters the immortal line “Go sell crazy someplace else, we’re all stocked up here”. Well, I’m all stocked up on task-forces, false starts, relaunches, fund-raisers (where exactly IS that “ring-fenced” cash) and Indyref2 being just round this corner. I’ve had it up to here (imagine if you will a line somewhere waaaay above my head) with it being assumed that I am going to swallow the latest reheated mince which is produced just prior to an election, and boy haven’t we had a lot of those to go round since 2014. This might be good enough for the “Nicola has a secret plan” brigade, but really, there has to come a time when even the most loyal of Pavlovian supporters must cry “not again”!What happened to the analytical, forensic, critical thinking of the 2014 Yes movement? Collectively we could demolish any argument put forward by the No campaign through attention to detail, now I hear too many voices exhorting us not to look too closely, to overlook the fact that we keep being promised progress yet nothing concrete is ever delivered. I’d imagine that this new initiative will be more task farce than task force, and will disappear into the same cupboard as the mythical Rebuttal Unit.If I seem disappointed in the SNP’s performance over the last few years it is because I am. In some respects they have provided competent administration. They have presented a calm and measured response to the coronavirus pandemic which, while not entirely removed from the routes adopted in England, has been done with an air of control lacking from Westminster. But in so many other areas they have been an utter let down, most notably the ethics (or lack of them) in regards to transparency and accountability. The Yes movement of 2014 was carried on a wave of optimism, a chance of a better future, with a cleaner politics, where the Labour Party trademarks of cronyism and nepotism where a thing of the past. What now for the Yes movement in 2021 as we try to go forward reliant on an SNP riddled with those same failings? We cannot go on deluding ourselves, and the National cannot be complicit in deluding us. You can either be the voice of the Yes movement or the voice of the SNP, because at present those aren’t one and the same. Perhaps by being more critical of the SNP your paper can steer them back onto the straight and narrow, because as it stands it is becoming increasingly unpalatable for many in the Yes movement to stand with the main party of Scottish independence.
An Independent Scotsman 