Even not-very-alert readers will have noticed that we’re taking a little summer holiday in the complete absence of any political events. Rest assured that we’re using the time to patrol Bath diligently for bears. But we couldn’t help noticing this on Twitter today.
Someone tweeted it to show that as late as summer 2020 the SNP was still soliciting money for what it called its “ring fenced Independence Referendum Campaign Fund”.
Hannah Graf MBE (below, right, receiving the decoration from Prince William in 2019 for his “work updating LGBTQ policy in the British Army”) is a very strange fella.
Tuesday’s front page headline in The National was roughly the political equivalent of introducing yourself to your new next-door neighbour by saying “Hi, nice to meet you, I’m Jimmy from No.22 and it definitely wasn’t me who killed your cat last night”.
Humza Yousaf’s great masterplan of an independence strategy is imploding faster than the OceanGate Titan, and scarcely any less disastrously. And unless you’re one of the colleagues, family or friends of the tragic victims on board the doomed vessel, it’s even more painful to watch.
24 hours on, pretty much everyone seems to have come to the same conclusion (with the assistance of briefings from the FM himself) about Humza Yousaf’s “independence strategy” as the one Wings saw immediately yesterday, namely that he’s taken Nicola Sturgeon’s flawed version of a de-facto referendum and made it even less credible.
In as far as they’re talking about it at all, anyway.
Still wondering what Humza Yousaf’s going to say to the SNP’s pretend “conference” on independence strategy this coming Saturday? Well, wonder no longer, because this morning he told Sky News.
In other words, he’s waving the white flag and praying for a miracle.
MaryB on The Slowest Dawning: “100% Yes 6.09pm You just fell into the ‘divide and rule’ trap.” Aug 29, 10:30
James Che on The Slowest Dawning: “The agenda of the SNP, and most political parties in GB is the same belief think tanks. Captured governments that…” Aug 29, 10:26
Mark Beggan on The Slowest Dawning: “It’s the only platform that Fanny has if you don’t count Cambridge and that went tits up. Think of it…” Aug 29, 10:24
ALANM on The Slowest Dawning: “Agent Sturgeon’s mission is almost complete. All that remains for Swinney is formalising a merger with the Greens paving the…” Aug 29, 10:22
James Che on The Slowest Dawning: “Just need to google Westminster foundation for democracy to realise why Scotland would not be seen as a security risk…” Aug 29, 10:10
100%Yes on The Slowest Dawning: “The SNP is calling for the Scotland office to be abolished Swinney already knows the Scotland office is going to…” Aug 29, 10:07
100%Yes on The Slowest Dawning: “The SNP stating quite clearly don’t vote for the SNP we can’t delivery a referendum unless its in the form…” Aug 29, 10:04
James Che on The Slowest Dawning: “I believe Lynsey Hoyle is its patron or was at the time. And the SNP are part of that Westminster…” Aug 29, 09:57
Bilbo on The Slowest Dawning: “I’ve got a feeling that Online presence for SNP meetings won’t be solely for islanders but also for the young…” Aug 29, 09:52
James Che on The Slowest Dawning: “I believe Lynsey Hoyle is its patron or was at the time.” Aug 29, 09:52
James Che on The Slowest Dawning: “The security of Westminsters Great Britain parliament. Which Scotland has never entered into a treaty with, we only ever held…” Aug 29, 09:46
James Che on The Slowest Dawning: “Stu, Better together is still as strong as it ever was and the SNP are in it. The Scottish national…” Aug 29, 09:34
Hatey McHateface on The Slowest Dawning: “Near 60 comments on this thread. If nobody else is going to step up, looks like it falls to me…” Aug 29, 09:30
Hatey McHateface on The Slowest Dawning: “Good spot, Bilbo. Peter Murrell too. Even if you question his commitment to law and order, you have to commend…” Aug 29, 09:24
Hatey McHateface on The Slowest Dawning: ““Kenya, the Caribbean, Ireland the method of holding colonies is well rehearsed” Odd. Why would they continue to rehearse a…” Aug 29, 09:19
Hatey McHateface on The Slowest Dawning: “Don’t think the devil buys sole. It doesn’t keep in the heat.” Aug 29, 09:13
Hatey McHateface on The Slowest Dawning: “Good spot. Does that mean the genocide is now complete? Maybe it was never happening? My best guess is that…” Aug 29, 09:07
Bilbo on The Slowest Dawning: “Wasn’t Michelle Mone all about hard work, enterprise, trying to get on in life, earning a crust, law and order,…” Aug 29, 09:06
Bilbo on The Slowest Dawning: “I doubt very much that many young people actually vote for the SNP, even the vocal minority on social media…” Aug 29, 09:04
Hatey McHateface on The Slowest Dawning: “Anyone caring about grown up issues; the economy, jobs, growing GDP, etc. may have noticed that Item #33 is the…” Aug 29, 08:49
John McNab on The Slowest Dawning: “These might be the “dark handlers” that Fergie Finlayson refers to….” Aug 29, 07:52
John McNab on The Slowest Dawning: “Will the “Provisional Agenda” come in Gaelic and other ‘community languages’? Then, when it’s finally agreed, will it become the…” Aug 29, 07:45
100%Yes on The Slowest Dawning: “SNP logic to sell Scotland to maintain Holyrood. The party has produced a referendum bill, WHY? John O’brien “Starting to…” Aug 29, 07:26
Bilbo on The Slowest Dawning: “It’s possible that a good part of the remaining 40% SNP members are young activists who only care about maintaining…” Aug 28, 23:45
Young Lochinvar on The Slowest Dawning: “EPX I suspect that will be when SNP leader in waiting Jenny (the) Gilruth/ Dugdale composite takes the reins; once…” Aug 28, 23:15
