As well as the SNP NEC elections, the weekend saw the election of the first committee of a new grassroots independence organisation which is unfortunately and hopefully temporarily going by the stupendously terrible working name of “Yes Alba”.
15 people were elected to its ruling body by the votes of hundreds of delegates, with the top-ranked picks including SNP MP Angus MacNeil and former SNP MP George Kerevan. The majority of the successful candidates (eight) were female, even though there were no quotas or women-only shortlists imposed, and a wide range of ages was represented from young activists to former UK ambassador Craig Murray.
(We have no idea about any of their sexualities or gender identities, and also no interest in knowing, because those things have not the slightest bearing on their ability to fight for independence and are frankly none of our damn business.)
But that wasn’t good enough for Team Woke.
On a day when Joanna Cherry had a grown-up, reasoned and constructive column in The National calling for unity in the pursuit of independence, the outpouring of snide, sour sneering from a faction still raging with bitterness about being routed on the SNP NEC is instead curdling Twitter even as we speak.
And embarrassingly, not a single one of them has actually bothered to check even the most basic facts.
Alert readers will recall the deranged open letter released by a group of transactivists last Friday, in a nakedly transparent attempt to influence the SNP’s NEC elections that weekend which backfired on them horribly (and amusingly) when the party’s members instead kicked out three-quarters of the committee’s woke faction and replaced them with feminists, socialists and above all advocates of actually achieving independence.
If you don’t have the time to read Alyn Smith’s astonishing response to the SNP NEC election results in today’s National, we’ve edited it down to 10 seconds for you.
We must admit, the terrible people that we are, we’ve been enjoying watching today’s extended meltdown by the SNP’s woke faction about last night’s NEC election results. Because it appears their egos are so huge that they’re not even smart enough to play dignified to spoil our schadenfreudish fun. It’s been full-on public tantrums.
Ridiculously, more than eight hours after voting closed in an all-electronic election in which “counting” should have taken a maximum of one second, and at 11.30pm, the SNP have released the results of this year’s NEC elections.
There are some big stories.
Alyn Smith is OUT as Policy Development Convener, replaced by Chris Hanlon.
We had, we think it’s only fair to say, extremely low expectations of Nicola Sturgeon’s keynote speech this afternoon to the SNP’s soporific, strangled 2020 non-conference. It seems that members felt the same, because 15 seconds before the speech began only 1,166 of them were logged in to watch it.
The speech she just delivered, though, limboed under those expectations in platform shoes and a stovepipe hat without even grazing the underside of the bar.
In a post last month we referenced a ZX Spectrum computer game from 1984 called “Worse Things Happen At Sea”. Today as we watched the First Minister on the Andrew Marr Show, we were put in mind of another nautical-disaster-themed one from a great deal nearer to the end of the Speccy’s life.
Mark Beggan on Looking up at the stars: “You should have slept well. No one be reads it anyway.” Mar 12, 03:18
James on Looking up at the stars: “Ah yes, infiltration is the key….. The old colonialists are expert.” Mar 12, 02:06
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Looking up at the stars: “GOVT DITCHES NON-CRIME HATE INCIDENTS (England & Wales) A Government amendment removing the statutory basis for non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs)…” Mar 12, 00:47
Young Lochinvar on Looking up at the stars: “J The long haired one certainly did walk a bit like the ministry of funny walks 🙂” Mar 12, 00:34
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Looking up at the stars: “PUBLIC STATEMENT BY SALVOSCOT LTD & LIBERATION SCOTLAND COMMITTEE Response to Defamatory Statements by JPTi In November 2025, the…” Mar 12, 00:33
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “Hubris. It gets the empire every time. Trump is the babbling idiot but the real evil is the unelected evil…” Mar 11, 22:17
diabloandco on Looking up at the stars: “Really Geri? Thanks for the information – it seems entirely wrong that that should be allowed.” Mar 11, 22:09
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “” It is historically indisputable…” I dispute your historically indisputable ‘stuff’. What some, the ignorant and deluded, call colonization others…” Mar 11, 21:52
Alf Baird on Looking up at the stars: “” the people of Scotland have been among the most efficient and enthusiastic colonisers” You may find of interest the…” Mar 11, 21:18
Sven on Looking up at the stars: “Hopefully addressing the problems experienced by the original RR gas turbines by installing three, greater capacity diesel generators at considerable…” Mar 11, 21:17
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “Scotland hasn’t colonised anyone. Can you point to our overseas territories where we rule over a ppl? The City of…” Mar 11, 21:03
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “Correction: that ‘other’ should read ‘others’ plural – otherwise the intended meaning is lost in the sentence which should read…” Mar 11, 20:10
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “This what bullies do when they get caught… bullies being cowards. They try to pull other, innocent parties, into their…” Mar 11, 19:59
agentx on Looking up at the stars: ““Fyona Bairstow, 72, and Michael Bairstow, 77, abused Apple Moorhouse in Manor Heath Park, Halifax, on 28 August last year…” Mar 11, 19:33
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “I’ve been perusing todays unionist (colonist if preferred… same thing) mincin and mingin and mangleezed insults comments and comparing them…” Mar 11, 19:29
James on Looking up at the stars: “Had one of them shit himself? If so, the other yin was Beggan…..” Mar 11, 19:27
Young Lochinvar on Looking up at the stars: “Anyone else see the clip on the news of the old couple racially abusing the Philipino woman in a park…” Mar 11, 19:13
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “An observation: Someone who would destroy the world economy for no apparent reason is not an evil genius…. just evil,…” Mar 11, 19:05
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Wheesht, factchecker. Our illustrious forebears were only following orders. Some big, bad, Inglis barsturts made them do it. And then…” Mar 11, 18:22
factchecker on Looking up at the stars: “Our resident professor tells us that ” a nation which colonizes, a civilization which justifies colonization – and therefore force…” Mar 11, 18:03
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Wahey, James is up! It must have finally healed. But as he’s hunched over it, pumping away, he’s not upright.…” Mar 11, 17:58
David Holden on Looking up at the stars: “Enter the Dragon. The spot of bother in the gulf will be over soon as Sir Keith has dispatched HMS…” Mar 11, 17:47
James on Looking up at the stars: “The site Prick is in urgent need of a double dose of immodium. They’re spilling out of him without even…” Mar 11, 17:05
James Che on Looking up at the stars: “robertkknight, Thats because all the codgers in the holyrood parliament are a sub division of the parliament of the united…” Mar 11, 17:05
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “@ Geri says: 11 March, 2026 at 3:54 pm “It’s printing press” “it’s line of credit” “it’s economy” The Mystic…” Mar 11, 16:12
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Oh FFS, Alf. There’s hardly a Scottish family in the land that doesn’t have relatives in the Colonies. Plenty will…” Mar 11, 15:56
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “It’s about to get a whole lot sicker… It’s printing press & it’s line of credit is just about to…” Mar 11, 15:54
Alf Baird on Looking up at the stars: ““Isn’t the Indy movement sprinkled with simpering pathetic fools” The main concern of the colonized is or should be focused…” Mar 11, 15:38
