The entire mainstream Scottish media has picked up this afternoon on our intriguing scoop from yesterday about Peter Murrell lending the SNP £108,000 last year.
(The official SNP line is that it was for “cash flow reasons after the 2021 election”, although that doesn’t explain why less than half the money has been paid back more than 18 months later. Surely the party’s had enough cash flowing back in since then?)
And it’s enlightening to see how Scotland’s “proper” journalists handle such things.
The SNP love to indignantly tell everyone how healthy the party’s finances are these days, especially in response to impertinent queries about the infamous “ring-fenced” £600,000 for a second indyref that everyone now knows isn’t going to happen.
Word reaches us, readers, that Nicola Sturgeon was “furious” when she joined the most recent meeting of the SNP’s Westminster group by Skype. Her rage was driven by the suggestion that the party should trigger a Holyrood election to act as a de facto independence referendum, a policy we’re reliably told is supported by a number of MPs who are too scared of being browbeaten by Sturgeon in front of their colleagues to actually speak out in favour of it.
(We won’t mention their names at this point.)
Our source mentioned to us that they seemed to remember an interview in which the First Minister had revealed a possible reason for her extreme antipathy to the idea – one for the BBC’s extensive and rather good three-part documentary “Yes/No – Inside The Indyref”, which was broadcast in August 2019 and never seen again.
It’s not available on iPlayer or YouTube, but fortunately we happened to still have the show recorded on our Sky+ box, so we went to check, and lo and behold our source’s recollection was correct. Apologies for the slightly wonky quality of this video, as we had to record it off the TV screen.
It’s nice to see the British media (and perhaps, if we might be allowed to dream for a moment, the law) catching up with Michelle Mone.
It’s such a shame nobody did any proper investigative journalism into what a crooked, venal chancer she is before now – seven years ago or even four years ago, say – or the country might have been saved a few billion quid. Ah well, you live and learn, eh?
For anyone with the slightest remaining grip on their critical faculties, the cat was truly let out of the bag on the day of the First Minister’s infamous “broom cupboard” video last January, in which she abjectly grovelled at the feet of a tiny handful of adolescent transactivists who’d left the party in a loud and choreographed public tantrum because it still hadn’t burned Joanna Cherry at the stake for believing in human biology.
One of those she was abasing herself to that day was the repulsive and now mercifully deceased drug dealer and abusive racist misogynist Leeze Lawrence (above, left), but he was only the tip of a filthy iceberg.
We were sent something disturbing recently. It’s from a training course civil servants are being sent on by the Scottish Government.
As you can see, one of the sites that staff are directed to is something called The Trans Language Primer. We thought you should see some of its content.
For many years now, whenever I’ve done one of those “Which Political Party Should You Be In?” online quiz things, it always says that I’m a Green, which is weird because I really hate cyclists. Nevertheless, it was still the result when I did one most recently, just last month.
So I decided that for the first time in my life it was finally time to join a political party.
Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, handed himself over to the Scottish police last Sunday morning. He becomes the first person ever to be imprisoned on the obscure and vaguely defined charge of “jigsaw identification”.
Murray is also the first person to be jailed in Britain for contempt of court for their journalism in half a century – a period when such different legal and moral values prevailed that the British establishment had only just ended the prosecution of “homosexuals” and the jailing of women for having abortions.
Hi lads. This website has, we’d be the first to admit, made some pretty strong criticisms of you fellas in the last week or two, but we’re pleased to note that you finally HAVE actually manned up and released your “minifesto” tonight.
We’ll let readers judge it for themselves, but we do have one question.
Fresh from being embarrassed over a ridiculous smear story this week about someone complaining to the police about the use of a well-known political phrase by a Wings commenter, Tom Gordon of the Herald went on quite the attack yesterday.
The thread, which contains a number of basic factual errors about events*, continued for several more tweets all generally rubbishing our scoop from Friday afternoon and suggesting that no proper journalist (“the rest of us”) would have run the story.
So he must be feeling quite left out this morning.
Yoon Scum on A Poor Example: “That’s a very English attitude you are showing towards the glory of islam there If you’re a TRUE SCOT then…” May 10, 17:00
twathater on A Poor Example: “If you try to force me to adhere to the laws and regulations LAID DOWN and enforced????? in Scotland and…” May 10, 14:58
Yoon Scum on A Poor Example: “Should Scotland leave the union so we can have completely unlimited immigration? As the biggest driver behind the Reform vote…” May 10, 14:12
Yoon Scum on The Last Thing They’ll Expect: “I’m glad to hear that you think we have brilliant apprentices Why aren’t as many interested WELL They can study…” May 10, 13:02
Captain Caveman on A Poor Example: “O/T @RevStu Just read your post over at BEEX, almost choked on my Bran Flakes! Bravo. Haven’t laughed like that…” May 10, 12:47
Dan on The Last Thing They’ll Expect: “yoon scum says: at 5:40 am “your post pisses me off and annoys me” Well that’s a result! But most…” May 10, 12:35
Confused on A Poor Example: “relationship advice? this is un-islamic nonsense; I have 30 clerics opinions which tells me Humza can do what he likes,…” May 10, 12:34
Andrea on A Poor Example: “This is what I would have thought. As to discrimination to other men, I can discriminate, say, according to educational…” May 10, 12:26
Cuilean on A Poor Example: “Back to the Humzas original video pitch. The three responses are toe-curlingly sexist, as is the whole scenario depicted. To…” May 10, 12:11
Dave G on A Poor Example: “Many people with skin in the trans game don’t want to understand the ruling and think if they ignore it…” May 10, 11:58
Bilbo on A Poor Example: “It does feel that the only concrete outcome of the ruling has been safeguarding free speech and high profile activities…” May 10, 11:55
agent x on A Poor Example: “https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25146182.humza-yousaf-writes-india-pakistan-leaders-urge-restraint/ 7th May Former first minister Humza Yousaf and former Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar have written to the leaders of…” May 10, 11:46
Owen Mullions on A Poor Example: “Can a concerned neighbour please check on James Kelly on SGP as he seems to have suffered a complete mental…” May 10, 11:04
James Cheyne on A Poor Example: “And I wonder what would happen if 98-% of Scotland refused to vote at local and main elections. And the…” May 10, 10:36
Neil McKenzie on A Poor Example: “Kin hell, 3 answers to st Yer baws” May 10, 10:30
Vivian O’Blivion on A Poor Example: “Five, Westminster voting intention polls conducted with field work exclusively in May. Average results as follows: RefUK 29.8%, Lab 22%…” May 10, 10:21
A2 on A Poor Example: “nah, you just need to make sure it is.” May 10, 10:15
SilentMajority on A Poor Example: “There will no doubt be blatant attempts to ignore or circumvent the law. Hopefully those who have previously been pressured…” May 10, 10:15
aLurker on The Last Thing They’ll Expect: “Hi Stuart MacKay. This seems like an opportunity to ask you how does that ranking actually work? i.e. how do…” May 10, 10:11
James Cheyne on A Poor Example: “Turning the page by broadening the topic, not changing it. The trans topic of corse was not invented in Scotland,…” May 10, 09:02
Bilbo on A Poor Example: “Of course there has been action with highly visible things like women’s sport but it’s becoming plain to see that…” May 10, 08:17
Owen Mullions on A Poor Example: “Has anyone seen Humza’s latest revelation on X where he claims India and Pakistan have been in touch with him…” May 10, 08:02
yoon scum on The Last Thing They’ll Expect: “your post pisses me off and annoys me Why? I work with apprentices in a Scottish firm and they are…” May 10, 05:40
Jim Thomson on A Poor Example: “Expect faux queues at the GN ones. Which means there will be no TW or TM working, so that the…” May 10, 00:07
Dan on The Last Thing They’ll Expect: “Aye, an aquaintence works in the technical design side of planning and implementing the new HVDC transmission lines from Scotland…” May 9, 21:11
Hatey McHateface on A Poor Example: “How can the law and judiciary of Scotland and the UK be held in even more contempt? Max contempt was…” May 9, 21:01
joolz on A Poor Example: “Anyone can have a meeting for anyone as long as you don’t misrepresent it. If she had publicised the event…” May 9, 20:47
Vivian O’Blivion on A Poor Example: “Another double digit lead for RefUK and another breach of the 30% barrier. BMG Research, Westminster voting intention, field work…” May 9, 20:13
Yoon Scum on The Last Thing They’ll Expect: “can the stupid English worshipper ask After Scotland leaves the union What forms of power generation will be allowed?” May 9, 19:27
