By now many of you will have seen last night’s article on Craig Murray’s site, in which a current SNP branch convener revealed how the party machine is setting fire to all its own rules in a desperate attempt to secure the succession of Humza Yousaf.
Yousaf is the party establishment’s last hope of keeping all of its misdeeds in the last few years under wraps, and realising the magnitude of what’s at stake if he loses to Ash Regan or Kate Forbes, they’re abandoning all pretence of neutrality or integrity and throwing everything they’ve got at getting him elected.
Last month Wings broke a story about a “survey” being conducted by dozens of primary schools in the Aberdeen area in which children as young as nine were being asked about their sexual orientation and “gender identity”.
The charity LGBT Youth Scotland is currently the subject of a live police investigation over its involvement in a second major child-abuse scandal in little over a decade.
So you’d expect Police Scotland to be taking that pretty seriously, right?
Wings Over Scotland has been monitoring the BBC’s coverage of Scottish politics for over 11 years now, readers, and other than The Nick Robinson Incident we’re honestly struggling to remember seeing anything worse than this.
The Corporation’s “coverage” of Ash Regan’s campaign launch for the SNP leadership election ran for roughly seven minutes. And we suppose we should be grateful that it did at one point feature a brief, incidental cameo appearance from Ash Regan.
We read some harrowing tweets this week from an Edinburgh SNP activist. Sensitive readers should look away now, as the following article contains potentially triggering information about the wild and lawless streets of [checks notes] Corstorphine.
It’s remarkable how openly a certain faction of the SNP is now declaring surrender.
And it’s becoming increasingly clear that the events of the next few days and weeks will not just determine the future of the independence movement, but whether in any meaningful, practical sense it continues to exist at all.
Hatey McHateface on Anything But That: “Yer maw needs to tak yer smutty picture books awa – force ye tae learn tae read. How about if…” Sep 1, 14:41
Effijy on Anything But That: “SNP policy has put a raft of weak candidates into office thinking somehow every walk of life should be represented…” Sep 1, 14:31
James Che on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “Westminster or the EU cannot convert a named Country in a 1707 treaty, into a region in the same treaty…” Sep 1, 14:28
Mark Beggan on Anything But That: “‘If Hitler invaded hell..’” Sep 1, 14:00
James on Anything But That: ““My interpretation of the consensus from the BTL comments on the last thread is that Swinney’s playing a blinder by…” Sep 1, 13:59
Mark Beggan on Anything But That: “Reforms membership is now at 12,000 and rising. Who says Reform want to do a deal? The time the election…” Sep 1, 13:51
am firinn on Anything But That: “I never thought I might be recommending Mr Churchill to Mr Swinney, for I have no time for Mr Churchill,…” Sep 1, 13:45
Spartan 117 on Anything But That: “No matter how much Honest John and the other Fabians stamp their feet, if Reform form the next UK government…” Sep 1, 13:45
James Che on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “Staying with what STU has posted in relationship to referendums, Scotlands as a Sovereign Country has every right to hold…” Sep 1, 13:37
Hatey McHateface on Anything But That: ““Swinney has now dismissed every possible route to [Indy] out of hand” Hmmm. Is that bad? My interpretation of the…” Sep 1, 13:35
Hatey McHateface on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “Not much to argue with there. As always, I query the “settled assumption” that once things start to fission, the…” Sep 1, 13:25
Morgatron on Anything But That: “Swinney is a true fascist, refuses in democracy and working with other democratically voted parties. A total arse wipe of…” Sep 1, 13:18
Hatey McHateface on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “Naw, MH. The rate per word posting on here is too good. Plus unlimited double rate over the weekend. Also,…” Sep 1, 13:13
Chas on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “I think I have seen similar shite like this on Wings previously. Mind you, only 10,563 times. It never ends.” Sep 1, 13:05
Lorncal on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “The thing that all independence-supporting people need to realise is that England itself, and England-as-the-UK, has changed dramatically in the…” Sep 1, 12:58
laukat on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “It was in relation to the SG announcement that they cut the number of Health Boards from 14 to 2.…” Sep 1, 12:45
Minceheid on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “Hatey McHateface says: 1 September, 2026 at 12:11 pm That being the case, with the tax take just about maxxed…” Sep 1, 12:26
Hatey McHateface on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: ““another distraction from the matter of the day” I couldn’t work out what the matter of the day is from…” Sep 1, 12:11
laukat on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “All the talk of how to get to an Indyref is I feel another distraction from the matter of the…” Sep 1, 11:50
James Che on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “If Scotland is being treated illegally by Westminster and the EU as a devolved region of England then the Nation…” Sep 1, 11:46
Hatey Mchateface on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: ““Still waiting for another real leader to emerge who will unite the movement” Wow! You have the difficulty in clear…” Sep 1, 11:28
Hatey McHateface on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “Phew, Alf, you’ll have had a narrow escape. Back in May I predicted your comfort zone would consist of another…” Sep 1, 11:20
James Che on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “Alf, Indeed, But we will be advised that one part of the 1707 treaty is applicable but not the bits…” Sep 1, 11:16
James Che on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “They say that it is the 1707 treaty of union, its terms, conditions and articles that binds Scotland and England…” Sep 1, 10:51
Luigi on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “How we miss Alex Salmond at this time. He would be running rings round the unionists, fearty nationalists and devolutionists…” Sep 1, 10:47
sam on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “Very good, Northcode. Michael Collins believed that British strategic ambiguity was a tactic used to maintain control over Ireland, often…” Sep 1, 10:38
Alf Baird on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: ““it is the parliament for England … that continues a refusal for Scotland to leave the voluntary treaty of union”…” Sep 1, 10:32
