It’s pretty stark when you see it laid out like this.
In just four months, the SNP – because if you aggressively assert sole ownership of a political campaign, there’s nobody else you can blame when it goes south – have turned a 10-point lead for independence into a seven-point lead for the Union with the same polling company.
And while that’s pretty brutal in itself, it’s not even the real fly in the ointment.
Remember when we’d had 20-odd Yes-majority polls in a row, and all the courtiers of Queen Nicola Of Trans were telling us that it was solely down to her personal strategic genius and cunning masterplan of gently persuading soft No voters by, um, not actually taking any steps to achieve independence in case it scared them?
Hi lads. This website has, we’d be the first to admit, made some pretty strong criticisms of you fellas in the last week or two, but we’re pleased to note that you finally HAVE actually manned up and released your “minifesto” tonight.
We’ll let readers judge it for themselves, but we do have one question.
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It really is quite uncanny how similar some SNP supporters have become to the most frothing, abusive blood-and-soil Yoons of 2014. But we can live with this company:
Patrick Harvie on a radio phone-in today, refusing to say if he knows what a woman is and refusing to guarantee them safety from men in women’s single-sex spaces.
Because this is a pure embarrassment from the notional main opposition leader. Even if it was all true – and we’d be very sceptical about that until we see the workings – £4.5 billion over 14 years would be £321 million a year.
That’s a substantial amount of money, but it’s also almost exactly 1% of the Scottish Government’s budget, and no government on Earth has ever had everything it attempted work out perfectly. Sustaining 99% efficiency on spending over nearly a decade and a half is actually pretty good going.
More to the point, it’s a staggeringly audacious attack line from a Westminster MP in a party whose government wasted £12 billion on ONE project in ONE year alone – the catastrophically failed COVID test-and-trace app.
(We’d still like someone to explain to us how in the world you can possibly spend £12 billion in a few months on a mobile phone app, even if it had worked.)
Just over a hundred years ago, the rights of women in the UK were still entirely decided by men. Women didn’t have the vote (a small minority would be given it in 1918, but most would have another decade to wait), there were no women in Parliament, and women basically had no say in anything that happened.
Record scratch and jump-cut to the present day.
That’s Kirsty Blackman, an SNP MP elected in 2015 who wouldn’t even have been allowed to stand for election a hundred years earlier, and who seems determined to take women’s rights back to that century.
Southernbystander on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “I would have said yes to this genius spot, but no, unless the Cairngorms are full of ham.” Jul 26, 18:12
Southernbystander on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “I was on the border not very long ago and I can assure you there was a broken old fence…” Jul 26, 18:01
Mark Beggan on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “Being a Trans in a Muslim country is a waste of time and money. Once you are a woman they…” Jul 26, 17:13
Mark Beggan on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “I’ve came to the conclusion that if you are a gay Scot then voting for the Green party is Turkeys…” Jul 26, 17:04
Mark Beggan on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “They are going to blame Elon Musk. They won’t admit that progressive leftist ideology has failed.” Jul 26, 16:29
Mark Beggan on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “I used to have a T-shirt that said in German ” I’m a jelly doughnut”.” Jul 26, 16:06
Young Lochinvar on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “Two of JFKs most memorable speech quotes; “Ask not what your country can do for you..” And “Ich bin ein…” Jul 26, 15:49
Mark Beggan on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “So that’s were the saying ‘cut your cloth according to your pocket comes from. The Jocks had big deep pockets…” Jul 26, 15:49
Northcode on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “The length of time a constitutional arrangement has existed doesn’t determine whether it operates on long-term or short-term incentives. A…” Jul 26, 14:37
Northcode on Ain’t it funny how things change?: ““…even though we now live in a revised world.” Your comment seems to rest on the assumption that constitutional questions…” Jul 26, 14:29
John Cleary on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “Hello Stu, Want to know what happened to John Smith? Have a look here https://drive.proton.me/urls/0J0FYKBG24#F9ZfxS0qYcr6” Jul 26, 14:07
Hatey McHateface on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “Burnham setting the heather alight? His very name suggests guilt.” Jul 26, 13:53
James Che on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “Meantime, back to the news that Stu posted, Anas Sarwar, Ruthie, the SNP, and Labour switch believes and shared branch…” Jul 26, 13:39
Hatey McHateface on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “The King of the North in the South is going to sort it. The Ginger Growler has returned from exile…” Jul 26, 13:26
Hatey McHateface on Ain’t it funny how things change?: ““colonial systems are built for the short term” You forget we’re not all thousand year old, space traveling Picts, Northy.…” Jul 26, 13:21
Hatey McHateface on Ain’t it funny how things change?: ““they don’t dissolve the underlying constitutional questions” They do have an affect on democratic voter’s decisions. “they hinge on internal…” Jul 26, 13:16
Hatey McHateface on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “A bit OTT, Confused, but there’s some diamonds there amidst the dross. One of the things you haven’t thought through.…” Jul 26, 12:39
Bilbo on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “Glasgow City Council has been accepting asylum applicants from the UK Home Office since 1999, well before the SNP took…” Jul 26, 12:31
Northcode on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “The mood came upon me to write a speech. A speech that might help folk understand Scotland’s predicament. A speech…” Jul 26, 12:29
Minceheid on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “Hatey McHateface says: 26 July, 2026 at 9:37 am Meantime, in other news, swathes of Europe and even some bits…” Jul 26, 11:53
Confused on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “– I see the new anglo demagogue, Rupert Lowe, has been “doin’ a bit” … REMIGRATION is where it’s at…” Jul 26, 11:17
Confused on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “https://archive.ph/QMrix Im a firestarter, a twisted firestarter … Another triumph of wimminhood and intellect – she decides to make Glasgow…” Jul 26, 11:15
Northcode on Ain’t it funny how things change?: ““Don’t tell the coloniser that by following the inspirational insights of Memmi…” You assert that if a region’s resources are…” Jul 26, 11:00
Northcode on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “Your points appear to rest on assumptions that don’t quite align with the structure of the discussion. Large-scale geopolitical events…” Jul 26, 10:25
100%Yes on Ain’t it funny how things change?: “Scottish Prism is on today. I Said in the comments:- I’m sick and tired of being fed the Indy lie…” Jul 26, 10:23
Hatey McHateface on Ain’t it funny how things change?: ““much if not most of the wealth of the nation is extracted from it” “can never improve and develop Scotland…” Jul 26, 10:17
