So on the one hand there’s obviously very little point paying attention to the SNP’s regional list candidates for May’s Holyrood election, because as this website has comprehensively demonstrated over recent months, the chances of the SNP having any list MSPs elected are remote.
However, nothing is impossible, so let’s take a look at the B team, which also serves as a guide to the party’s upcoming talent taking its first steps towards the gravy bus.
As the six-year fight for justice for Alex Salmond continues, we thought you might like to see this clip from this morning’s Mike Graham Show, interviewing Paul McManus, the businessman and drummer in Glasgow rock band Gun who’s stepped up to fund the Salmond family’s case against the Scottish Government despite disagreeing with much of what Alex stood for politically.
The Sunday National’s front page today elicited a sigh of “So what?” from most.
We’ve already GOT a “pro-indy” majority at Holyrood and have done for the last 10 years, for all it’s been worth. But to be fair there was a paragraph in the article that at least raised a quizzical eyebrow.
It seems that it’s fine to farm important judgments out to mysterious shadowy figures who just make important chunks of them up out of thin air, and then issue them in your own name. Back in your boxes, plebs.
This clip was broadcast on ITV News Wales this week.
It’s a staggeringly obvious mess for a whole raft of reasons – a number of completely spurious, illogical and unsupported claims are accepted as facts without any sort of challenge or balancing voice (which has been standard practice on ITV News for a while now across almost any contentious political topic) – but it led us to somewhere magnitudes of crazier still.
100%Yes on The Future Is Yesterday: “The SNP gave up on Scotland after the referendum. I just wished people would waken up before its to late…” Feb 18, 19:48
Effijy on The Future Is Yesterday: “It’s like 3 legged horses must have the right to enter the Scottish Grand National. If it can’t jump and…” Feb 18, 19:22
Hatey McHateface on The Future Is Yesterday: “Dunno why Stu has such a downer on Oor Fatima. I look at her and see future First Minister potential.…” Feb 18, 18:38
Hatey McHateface on Scotland In Numbers: ““For the arithmetically illiterate, professor Sullivan‘s percentages are not of mutually exclusive categories” Sez you! For the simply illiterate, perhaps…” Feb 18, 18:13
MaryB on The Future Is Yesterday: “Off topic but relevant. Inde car aka Gordon Ross reports that the UK government appears to have pulled the plug…” Feb 18, 18:10
100%Yes on The Future Is Yesterday: “So why not just vote Reform and be done with the SNP, sound good to me.” Feb 18, 17:37
Rob on The Future Is Yesterday: “I have always had a problem with the concept of “list” MSP’s. I don’t understand how a small group of…” Feb 18, 17:32
Cynicus on The Future Is Yesterday: ““Emma Roddick, currently a list MSP in Highland, is standing against Fergus Ewing for a constituency” ============ Vote Fergus Ewing…” Feb 18, 17:01
John on The Future Is Yesterday: “whatever is published by WoS, the short, stark truth remains simple: (i) despite a convincing and comprehensive track record of…” Feb 18, 16:16
Young Lochinvar on Scotland In Numbers: “Lorna HG Well’s “The Time Machine” appears to have accurately predicted the rise of the dissolute degenerate androgynous Eloi. Evolution;…” Feb 18, 16:12
Southernbystander on Scotland In Numbers: “This makes good sense, in theory. Did you ever see that programme where a Lincolnshire farmer was asked to employ…” Feb 18, 16:10
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Scotland In Numbers: “Lorna, I invariably read and appreciate your contributions. The perennial question in this instance would seem twofold: “Are there any…” Feb 18, 16:05
sarah on The Future Is Yesterday: “Is there a glimmer of hope that at least one of these troughers won’t get back? Emma Roddick, currently a…” Feb 18, 15:58
Cynicus on Scotland In Numbers: “Lorna Campbell says: 18 February, 2026 at 1:48 pm “It is Stalinism/totalitarianism” ========= You perfect analogy. Under Stalin, the charlatan…” Feb 18, 15:57
Young Lochinvar on The Future Is Yesterday: “I don’t believe for a second that “the independent” courts alone decided sneaky Pete’s hearing would be held back to…” Feb 18, 15:51
Skip_NC on The Future Is Yesterday: “But all that one of the court cases may do is make people not want to vote for them. They…” Feb 18, 15:34
P C Foster on Scotland In Numbers: “@ Lorna– I think that we need to recognize that Westminster prevented the GRA. Also nurses in England seem to…” Feb 18, 15:23
Cynicus on Scotland In Numbers: ““….women who support the SNP and are members of the SNP not up in arms about the SNP attitude toward…” Feb 18, 15:00
sarah on The Future Is Yesterday: “I forgot Alba – if they joined the Alliance umbrella, that would be even better.” Feb 18, 14:59
Aidan on The Longest Road: “Scotland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, as I pointed out GDP per capita in Edinburgh is…” Feb 18, 14:54
sarah on The Future Is Yesterday: “Horrifying, appalling, sickening, terrifying, outrageous. What a dreadful level the SNP has fallen to. Alliance to Liberate Scotland is the…” Feb 18, 14:46
Terry on The Future Is Yesterday: “You’ve been right for years. Agreed. They need to go. But how? Apart from us not voting for them. I’m…” Feb 18, 14:44
David on The Future Is Yesterday: “The thought of Campbell getting in makes me boke.” Feb 18, 14:30
Lorna Campbell on Scotland In Numbers: “It is Stalinism/totalitarianism, Fearghas, and deliberately so pour encourager les autres. I think we really need to ask what is…” Feb 18, 13:48
Hatey McHateface on Scotland In Numbers: “I find the fact that Neil Armstrong could claim descent from Scottish Border Reiver ancestors on his father’s side is…” Feb 18, 13:43
Cynicus on Scotland In Numbers: “Cameron Lochiel says: 18 February, 2026 at 12:04 am “It’s about time we gave up and let the bees take…” Feb 18, 13:37
Hatey McHateface on Scotland In Numbers: “Spain has just granted citizenship to around one million illegals. Thus effectively unleashing them on all the other EU member…” Feb 18, 13:29
Hatey McHateface on Scotland In Numbers: ““58 per cent reported “self-censorship and chilling effects”, followed by “bullying, harassment and ostracism” at 42 per cent, and “barriers…” Feb 18, 13:22
Hatey McHateface on Scotland In Numbers: ““no real strategy to replace the migrant workforce” I suggest you type “how many UK citizens rely entirely on benefits”…” Feb 18, 13:17
