We’ve now filed a formal complaint with the Scottish Information Commissioner about this, because what we’d forgotten last week was that our original request was actually sent in September and it’s now been almost 60 working days with no sign of a proper response, not the 20 it’s supposed to take.
Because for some reason the Scottish Government REALLY doesn’t want you to know what the First Minister and Geoff Aberdein talked about in March 2018, and we think that you probably should.
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 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.
The Scottish Parliament will today almost certainly pass a dangerously misleading and inaccurate motion to mark “Transgender Day Of Remembrance”, and in doing so will join countless other institutions across the UK captured by trans ideology to the great detriment of women’s rights, freedom of speech and general sanity.
So we thought we’d mark it with a very short fact check.
One of the dumber things we see regularly posted on social media is that Yes voices should stop criticising the First Minister because her leadership is the only reason Yes is now consistently ahead in the polls and we would have no chance of winning a new referendum with someone else in charge.
This is obviously nonsense, because Nicola Sturgeon was SNP leader and FM for five years in which support moved barely a single millimetre, until COVID-19 came along. Our current lead is due entirely to a tiny invisible virus and a giant Etonian buffoon.
No explanation is given for why “writer at large”Neil Mackay has suddenly conducted a “wide-ranging, exclusive interview” with “one of Britain’s most senior spy chiefs” for today’s Herald On Sunday.
As far as we’re aware absolutely nothing has happened in respect of the UK’s nuclear “deterrent” to make the subject topical. Maybe Mackay just coincidentally bumped into Sir David Omand down the pub or something.
100%Yes on The Shortest Day: “We just had a Holyrood election where the SNP stated two vote SNP to stop Reform and yet Reform won…” Aug 29, 13:45
Geoff Bush on The Shortest Day: “Not sure I agree with your analysis here Stu. I don’t detect any U-turn in what Dave Doogan said before…” Aug 29, 13:26
Dickiet on The Shortest Day: “I have heard from a very good source (ie someone that was specifically told to their face by Swinney when…” Aug 29, 13:26
Captain Caveman 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, 13:13
James Che on The Slowest Dawning: “I bet the National and BBC never cover the story that the SNP are in the Westminster Foundation for Democracy…” Aug 29, 11:47
TURABDIN on The Slowest Dawning: “TIME FOR SWINNEY to swim with the fishes.” Aug 29, 11:46
James Che on The Slowest Dawning: “J Robertson, Scotland is a mess, But then we have to accept for now that the SNP run it under…” Aug 29, 11:30
James Che on The Slowest Dawning: “Gordon Brown thinks Scotland better get used to its voluntary union with England, which Scotland was relieved from all obligations…” Aug 29, 11:21
Mark Beggan on The Slowest Dawning: “You will be pleased to know that the British military now consists of a Drag Queen show played by women…” Aug 29, 11:21
Northcode on The Slowest Dawning: ““Ye ken ma pal, Kenny, don’t ye?” Wee Frankie said. “Dis he no come fae the Raploch oot Stirlin’ way?”…” Aug 29, 11:19
Hatey McHateface on The Slowest Dawning: “You forgot one. Why are Scots still being oppressed with colonially imposed question marks.” Aug 29, 11:17
Hatey McHateface on The Slowest Dawning: “Still though, Mark, his absence is noteworthy. Hope he hasn’t found himself at ground zero of a positive feed back…” Aug 29, 11:13
Hatey McHateface on The Slowest Dawning: ““Don’t the Brits just love engaging their military” Too right. Only just the other week they deployed masked and hooded…” Aug 29, 11:02
James Che on The Slowest Dawning: “At some point Scotland has to ask questions, what do we meed a referendum for, What would we declare UDI…” Aug 29, 11:01
Hatey McHateface on The Slowest Dawning: ““Vote overwhelmingly” I must have missed that.” Aug 29, 10:58
J Robertson on The Slowest Dawning: “As mentioned by other posters – how on earth with the shambolic nature of Scotland’s economy and public finances is…” Aug 29, 10:45
willie on The Slowest Dawning: “oh and one other thing about clunking fist Brown declaring that Scots irrespective of their political wishes will just have…” Aug 29, 10:40
willie on The Slowest Dawning: “Here’s quotes that the democrat not Great Gordon Brown has just made in the Guardian to coincide with his new…” Aug 29, 10:33
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
