One week out from a general election, the SNP are busy purging the “problematic”, as seen in this footage captured by a terrified bystander tonight somewhere in Fife.
The latest victim of the Waffen YSI, the party’s ultra-pious “woke” youth battalion, is Denise Findlay, a recently-elected member of the party’s Conduct Committee. She was targeted because she’s a gender-critical feminist opposed to the transgender cult which exerts a wildly disproportionate influence in the SNP upper echelons, supported enthusiastically by the First Minister.
She follows on the heels of Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath candidate Neale Hanvey, who last week was suspended from the party – without even a hearing – on a ludicrously trumped-up charge of “anti-Semitism” dredged up by SNP woke youth, namely that three-and-a-half years ago he shared an article (written by someone else) about billionaire financier George Soros and money-laundering, which at no point mentioned either Israel or Jewish people, even obliquely.
Hanvey, like Findlay, was brought down not by political opponents or the media but by members of his own party, as punishment for signing the SNP Women’s Pledge.
Particularly alert readers may recall this excellent documentary from 2017, exposing how Labour’s PFI scandal has cost the Scottish taxpayer countless billions of pounds and crippled local government for decades with its extortionate financial legacy, as illustrated by the case of North Ayrshire.
Well, now there’s another one of it.
The title is self-explanatory, and it’s worth half an hour of your time.
This, frankly, is something that we should have done years before now. But it’s never too late to start.
One of the most annoying and undemocratic things about modern politics is the ease with which MPs and candidates can simply ignore the electorate. I’ve attempted to politely ask my own MP, Wera Hobhouse of the Liberal Democrats, a question on several occasions and had only dead air in response, and many readers report similar from their own representatives.
What that means, among other things, is that it can be impossible to have any idea what someone stands for on a given issue before you vote for them. And that’s plainly unacceptable in a democracy.
However, when there’s an election on, there’s something you can do about it.
A new study reported at the weekend has found disturbing levels of sectarian beliefs among pupils at Scotland’s 357 Catholic schools. But there was an interesting twist – sectarianism was higher among the pupils who WEREN’T practicing Catholics.
We’ve just taken our first week off in eight years, and no sooner are we back than the whole world’s turned on its head. Because this is Brian Wilson in today’s Scotsman.
The only thing we don’t understand is: if a Holyrood majority for independence will be valid in 2021, why isn’t it valid now?
Aidan on Spot The Problem: “Ooooh yes rigged heavily was it. Let me guess “MI5 in the polling stations” “ballots counted in England” “people who…” Aug 28, 15:10
Marie on This Other Earth: “You’re obsessed with Muslims Hate-filled. Helen Joyce (Sex Matters) followed the money and in her book “Trans” named the American…” Aug 28, 15:03
Willie on The Slowest Dawning: “The reality of the so-called 40% membership is that these lost souls are not to ve seen on the ground.hidden…” Aug 28, 15:00
Spartan 117 on The Slowest Dawning: “Depressingly, it didn’t stop the public voting for them in their droves however at the last election. A substantive chunk…” Aug 28, 14:48
Spartan 117 on Spot The Problem: “Rob – you speak pure logic and sense, unlike some of the other witterings here.” Aug 28, 14:42
BLMac on The Slowest Dawning: “Maybe it’s time to do what a sovereign people do and take control of our government like the Icelanders did…” Aug 28, 14:42
James on Spot The Problem: “Inwhich case it won’t ever happen; not even a rigged one like last time which ran them close. England needs…” Aug 28, 14:37
Chas on The Slowest Dawning: “The starting point for Independence has to the the complete obliteration of the SNP. Any individual currently holding power within…” Aug 28, 14:36
Campbell Clansman on The Slowest Dawning: “The document is 18,663 words in length. Fifty-seven pages in all. One wonders how many SNP members will bother to…” Aug 28, 14:12
Rob on Spot The Problem: “What some folk can’t seem to understand is that outside their own bubble the majority of folk don’t care about…” Aug 28, 13:59
James Che on Spot The Problem: “The records that give evidence the king or Crown was not Sovereign in Scotland comes from the acceptance of the…” Aug 28, 13:33
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “Sure, Chas, but this site’s byline is the “world’s most read Scottish politics site” or something like that. It’s important…” Aug 28, 13:26
James on Spot The Problem: “Ran oot o’ bog roll? I assumed you buy it in bulk….for obvious reasons.” Aug 28, 13:18
Chas on Spot The Problem: “Hatey. It is possible to win an argument/debate with a genius but it is absolutely impossible to win one against…” Aug 28, 13:06
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “I see the Turnberry Seven are up before the beak on Monday. It’s illuminating to peruse the list of names.…” Aug 28, 12:48
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “Always the best way, James – Day Zero of Year Zero. As a Sovereign Scot, I hereby declare myself outside…” Aug 28, 11:27
James Che on Spot The Problem: “Hatey, I have never worried about the Crown of Scotland, In Case you have never noticed it is England that…” Aug 28, 11:22
James Che on Spot The Problem: “I forgot the SNP were a Company, Thanks for the reminder. So laws against a Company could differ considerable compared…” Aug 28, 11:13
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““Scotlands Crown was not Sovereign over the parliament or people” If you put it like that, James, there’s absolutely no…” Aug 28, 11:06
James Che on Spot The Problem: “The SNP is Company first and foremost. Its a Company running Scotland, Where is that company registered? Can we use…” Aug 28, 11:01
James Che on Spot The Problem: “History from the past creates the present history, the present history creates future records and history, Disassociating one from the…” Aug 28, 10:40
James Che on Spot The Problem: “Your comments yesterday regards the Monarch of England “self declaring ” the position of king of Scotland It helps to…” Aug 28, 10:22
James Che on Spot The Problem: “am firinn. It really is a treat to find intelligent responses to some of the misleading information projected towards the…” Aug 28, 09:41
James Che on Spot The Problem: “Sparten 117, Thank you for your knowledgable intervention yesterday regards the Fabian Society infiltration into the position of governments advisors.…” Aug 28, 09:29
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: “An interesting article “Canada-US trade war has exposed a Brexit double standard”: https://unherd.com/newsroom/canada-us-trade-war-has-exposed-a-brexit-double-standard/ The author is pointing out that Canadian…” Aug 28, 09:03
Chas on Spot The Problem: “You are not alone in your thoughts Rob. The ‘Wings’ comments section has evolved into a forum where bitter, twisted…” Aug 28, 09:02
Hatey McHateface on Spot The Problem: ““sick of the “colonists” are to blame for everything, the union was illegal, the UN will fix it and all…” Aug 28, 08:24
