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?
Nicola Sturgeon told Scotland’s press this morning that despite her weariness, she could have managed a few more months or even a year as First Minister, which would at least have got her halfway to keeping her promise to serve a full term if she was elected in 2021.
Which just makes her timing all the harder to explain.
We’ve just had the results back from some very interesting new polling, and the first snippet is a particularly instructive one.
When challenged on questions of gender, the reflex response of politicians of most parties in the Scottish Parliament is to bang on about how overwhelmingly MSPs voted for the Gender Recognition Reform bill.
Curiously, so far no journalist has bothered to ask whether they care that according to every poll, they’re utterly failing to represent the views of their constituents on the subject – which is, after all, what they’re supposed to be there for.
So we just asked directly if people felt their MSPs were doing their jobs.
Ouch. By well over 2 to 1, respondents felt that they were being let down by the people who are supposed to speak for them. (Excluding DKs the margin is just shy of 70/30, very similar to the margin by which people in polls oppose self-ID generally.)
But it’s when you drill down into the detail that it gets a bit disturbing.
Below are two news reports from the Scottish Sun this week:
Both of the people arrested were male-bodied individuals who identify as women. As far as we’re aware, neither of them has a Gender Recognition Certificate. They are both the same sex, biologically and legally, and both describe themselves as female.
Yet in giving statements about their respective arrests, Police Scotland called one of them a man and one of them a woman. And we’re having no luck finding out why.
But isn’t that the Scottish Greens co-leader in that picture, in the bunnet, between his colleague Ross Greer and Scottish Liberal Democrats leader Alex Cole-Hamilton, all enthusiastically clapping Douglas just a few weeks ago?
The title of this article might sound a bit like the name of a band making their debut at Glastonbury this year, but in fact it’s something infinitely more serious.
News broke late last night that the person we must presumably now refer to as an “individual” who had been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a missing Galashiels schoolgirl (happily found safe and well and back home with her parents) had in fact been charged with an as-yet-unspecified crime.
But the alleged crime wasn’t the only thing going unspecified.
After Wings’ investigation into the disturbing world of “furries” earlier this week, the mainstream press picked up on the quite extraordinary decision by SNP MSP Christina McKelvie to endorse a “counter-protest” being organised by the costume fetishists against a women’s-rights event in Glasgow tomorrow.
Because it appears the SNP are more and more openly throwing their weight behind both extreme sexual kink (and worse) and the intimidation of women.
Yet even after our extensive revelations about his past last week, not a single MSP has disassociated themselves from him. And now we find ourselves in a position whereby in order to protect other women, we’re forced to direct people’s attention to something we really wish we didn’t have to.
agent x on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “@Sarah Who was Liberate Scotland’s candidate at the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election please?” Jun 14, 19:26
Hatey McHateface on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “It’s textbook leftist behaviour to attribute the failure of every half-baked plan and reality-denying policy to tractors. The Bolsheviks were…” Jun 14, 19:16
Andy Ellis on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “@Dan You seem to have a fairly weird view of party politics and dynamics. I’m just an ordinary member of…” Jun 14, 18:53
Hatey McHateface on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “Solid 24-carat gold pure Scottish Exceptionalism there, wullie. I submit as disproof of your ludicrously and hysterically over-the-top exaggeration, the…” Jun 14, 18:41
Hatey McHateface on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “Don’t knock it. If you turn up for the Oompah Mac Fucking Loompah gig, nobody else will get a look…” Jun 14, 18:32
Hatey McHateface on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “For “once Scotland is recognised” read “if Scotland is recognised”. And, to repeat what I have said before – anybody…” Jun 14, 18:26
Dan on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “It seems to be holding yer Alba Party back though… Even with a very short and compromised campaign, Eva standing…” Jun 14, 18:02
Captain Caveman on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: ““Cap’n, I bet some of the more righteous progressives in the SNP would see the election of a Reform candidate…” Jun 14, 17:59
sarah on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “2025 is looking good for Yessers. We just need the 1,617,989 Yes voters to hear what is going on and…” Jun 14, 17:43
James on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “As a great man once said…. “…I notice at any mention of SALVO or Liberate Scotland the FRANCHISE fanny and…” Jun 14, 17:10
Andy Ellis on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “@Stuart 3.50pm Aye, that’ll be because you’re (checks notes) a unionist plant / 77th Brigade / not REALLY Scottish /…” Jun 14, 16:22
Stuart MacKay on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “Cap’n, I bet some of the more righteous progressives in the SNP would see the election of a Reform candidate…” Jun 14, 16:12
Stuart on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “I think Mr Ellis is spot on re Salvo, not only are Salvo and it’s supporters engaging in magical thinking,…” Jun 14, 15:50
Confused on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “I could believe it : https://archive.ph/wip/as3Uc but let’s just have a bit of imperial propaganda to cheer us all up.…” Jun 14, 13:48
Andy Ellis on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “@Stuart 11.59am Well, I suppose you might argue that they weren’t solely responsible for the war. Of course this isn’t…” Jun 14, 12:39
Captain Caveman on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “*winning Heh. Freudian slip perchance ” Jun 14, 12:36
Captain Caveman on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “Yes please. Will enhance Reform’s chances of sinning some seats. Good work!” Jun 14, 12:06
Stuart on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “Aye Mr Ellis, nor did starting a civil war hold them back either…” Jun 14, 11:59
Andy Ellis on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “And your point is, caller….? Not having independence in their name – or indeed being Irish language – didn’t seem…” Jun 14, 11:11
Andy Wiltshire on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “Another question asked from a position of ignorance – am I right in assuming that the only Scottish political party…” Jun 14, 10:58
Andy Ellis on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “Who are “they” in this context? The SNP? The Scottish media? Scottish &/or British unionists? It all sounds a like…” Jun 14, 10:11
Doug on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “Independence supporters should boycott next year’s Holyrood election.” Jun 14, 09:41
MaryB on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “Andy Ellis @ 4.32 pm I think they’re desperate that the SALVO UN work is kept from popular consciousness. Scotlands…” Jun 14, 09:16
Lorn on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “As I recall, CC, Salmond and Sturgeon came as a package. He was going to team up with Ros Cunningham…” Jun 13, 23:42
100%Yes on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “I wouldn’t be surprised if the SNP party fiances isn’t being directly funded the British labour government, so in return…” Jun 13, 22:31
Breastplate on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “Yes James, it’s notable that they recognised themselves.” Jun 13, 21:50
sarah on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “Agreed. No-one in power in the SNP seems to have anything in common with the long-time members or voters who…” Jun 13, 21:40
McDuff on Let’s Not Make Some Plans: “I know i have droned on about this before but i still can`t believe there has not been a rebellion…” Jun 13, 21:22