So on the one hand there’s obviously very little point paying attention to the SNP’s regional list candidates for May’s Holyrood election, because as this website has comprehensively demonstrated over recent months, the chances of the SNP having any list MSPs elected are remote.
However, nothing is impossible, so let’s take a look at the B team, which also serves as a guide to the party’s upcoming talent taking its first steps towards the gravy bus.
As the six-year fight for justice for Alex Salmond continues, we thought you might like to see this clip from this morning’s Mike Graham Show, interviewing Paul McManus, the businessman and drummer in Glasgow rock band Gun who’s stepped up to fund the Salmond family’s case against the Scottish Government despite disagreeing with much of what Alex stood for politically.
The Sunday National’s front page today elicited a sigh of “So what?” from most.
We’ve already GOT a “pro-indy” majority at Holyrood and have done for the last 10 years, for all it’s been worth. But to be fair there was a paragraph in the article that at least raised a quizzical eyebrow.
It seems that it’s fine to farm important judgments out to mysterious shadowy figures who just make important chunks of them up out of thin air, and then issue them in your own name. Back in your boxes, plebs.
This clip was broadcast on ITV News Wales this week.
It’s a staggeringly obvious mess for a whole raft of reasons – a number of completely spurious, illogical and unsupported claims are accepted as facts without any sort of challenge or balancing voice (which has been standard practice on ITV News for a while now across almost any contentious political topic) – but it led us to somewhere magnitudes of crazier still.
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “EMPLOYEES OUTRAGED OVER IRISH POWER COMPANY’S PRO-TRANS POLICY Female employees have urged Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) to stop allowing…” Apr 15, 20:39
Aidan on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “@100% Yes – it’s what we call in the corporate sector a “jolly”. A trip that has little if any…” Apr 15, 20:31
Aidan on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Yeah but the £150bn is completely made up and has no chance of materialising at all (nor any figure close…” Apr 15, 20:25
Geri on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Don’t blame me. It’s auto correct that’s doing it. I don’t waste time proof reading. I’m not applying for a…” Apr 15, 20:23
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““the process is not simple nor quick” Nae rush. Swinney is promising a referendum in 2028. That’ll be here in…” Apr 15, 20:05
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Simple enough question, Alf. Will the “£150+ billion plundered each year from Scotland” get me and every other Scot who…” Apr 15, 19:47
Geri on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “£150 billion+ or a free bus pass? Nawbag: can I phone a friend? I’m no programmed tae think. Sorry, clocks…” Apr 15, 19:46
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “You’ve given me so much to think on, Geri, I hardly know where to start. OK, what about here? “USA…” Apr 15, 19:43
sarah on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “@ 100%Yes: did you watch the Youtube “Liberation Scotland UN Update March 2026”? It was posted on Liberation Scotland’s Facebook…” Apr 15, 19:35
Alf Baird on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““Those free bus passes are like our free prescriptions” All are merely baubles handit oot by colonial administrators compared with…” Apr 15, 18:57
Geri on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Oh there’ll be plenty of Brits there, mark my words. The meddling, terrorist, intel kind. Circling like vultures to see…” Apr 15, 18:44
Geri on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Why is it a shit hole, shitface? It wouldn’t be because of all those ILLEGAL sanctions against it – imposed…” Apr 15, 18:32
sarah on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “100% Yes – I wouldn’t call it a holiday when they’re scooting round the country [Scotland] doing talks, slaving away…” Apr 15, 18:21
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Hard to avoid the conclusion, Alf, that you’re claiming that if we decolonise, we’ll lose our free bus passes. I’d…” Apr 15, 18:13
Mark Beggan on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Travelling to Venezuela FCDO advises against all travel to parts of Venezuela. High risk to British nationals. Your travel insurance…” Apr 15, 17:36
Alf Baird on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “The Holyrood election is reduced to the offer of free bus travel and school bags for P1’s. Reflecting our colonial…” Apr 15, 17:34
Sven on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Sarah @ 16.07. Hopefully, should Mr Murray be elected, he’ll not be expounding too muchly on his views on gender…” Apr 15, 17:33
100%Yes on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Its now nearly May so what the news on the UN-24 and Scotland’s application and do we have a sponsor…” Apr 15, 17:17
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “It’s a third-world shithole. Mired in corruption, stagnation, poverty and despair. Biggest export its own people. Second biggest export (until…” Apr 15, 16:57
Hatey McHateface on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: ““What a joy it would be to hear someone intelligent, principled and energetic, speak in Hollyrood” Seconded. But what is…” Apr 15, 16:49
Mark Beggan on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “That is because their government always says: ‘Badges? Badges? we dont need no stinking Badges!”” Apr 15, 16:30
Mark Beggan on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Do your made up Scots rant again. Your post colonial chums have always got your back!” Apr 15, 16:13
sarah on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “O/T: There is “really interesting news” about the Scottish case for judicial review of the proscription in Scotland of Palestine…” Apr 15, 16:07
Captain Caveman on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “Awww Rambo…. You gonna have another one of your uber-embarrassing, proper weird meltdowns, mate? Triggered again? I do hope so.…” Apr 15, 15:54
Young Lochinvar on Do You Believe In The Westwood?: “HMcH (see bottom) And there’s you thinking of voting for the Scotchland Greens.. You’ll get on with them like a…” Apr 15, 15:46
