We must admit it’s a shock – we were expecting the SNP President to remain neutral in the leadership election – but it’s hard to reasonably interpret this any other way.
(We’re not aware of Russell giving any media interviews last night so we assume from the timing that these comments were made at the regular meeting of the SNP Westminster Parliamentary group.)
Because both Humza Yousaf and Kate Forbes couldn’t have been any clearer that their indy strategies centre on getting Westminster to agree to another Section 30 order, and by pointing out that that’s never going to happen (which we all knew anyway), Mike Russell is admitting that a vote for anyone but Ash Regan is a vote to surrender any hope of independence for the foreseeable future.
We don’t often agree with him these days, but on this one he couldn’t be more right. For the sake of the SNP (and the Yes movement) we hope its members heed the sage, albeit coded, advice of their President.
Last month this site ran an article entitled “All The Nice Greens Love A Rapist”, and two days ago the Scottish version of the party officially confirmed it.
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.
Billy Carlin on Friends Without Benefits: “The laugh is re Swinney lying about how they did not know that Murrell was swindling crook when most of…” May 28, 18:20
robertkknight on Friends Without Benefits: “Frank says: “Who is still protecting her?” I’d suggest you direct that question to the relevant section desk jockey in…” May 28, 18:18
Ex President Xiden on Friends Without Benefits: “It is an example of the tried and tested legal precedent known as ‘Kicking the can down the road’.” May 28, 17:58
Izzie on Friends Without Benefits: “Its okay folks we can alk get a shot of the campervan. I have booked my slot.” May 28, 17:49
Dan on Friends Without Benefits: “Is this why Pete only copped to 400K embezzlement, because the rest of a larger amount of monies was removed…” May 28, 17:39
Ex President Xiden on Friends Without Benefits: “By Sturgeon’s reasoning Peter Tobin and Angus Sinclair could also be said to have cooperated fully with the police after…” May 28, 17:30
Socrates MacSporran on Friends Without Benefits: “Re the feminine products removed from the charge sheet, the polis were probably confused; after all, it is fairly well…” May 28, 17:29
Frank Gillougley on Friends Without Benefits: “Seeing as the potential demise of Nicola regarding the inclusion of sanitary products was bargained away, surely it begs the…” May 28, 17:17
robertkknight on Friends Without Benefits: “More incisive investigative journalism, Rev…we salute you! As for Lady Sturgeon of Upper Behouchie, me thinks the lady doth protest…” May 28, 17:05
TURABDIN on Friends Without Benefits: “THE ACTIVITIES of Sturgeon & Murrell have taken Scotland further away from independence and handed the opposition propaganda for speculation…” May 28, 16:46
Northcode on All The Dirt From My Eyes: ““Ultimately, as Fanon came to realise, force by the minority who have psychologically engaged may be required.” It can’t be…” May 28, 16:26
Bill Scullion on Friends Without Benefits: “I have had several roles in internal audit many years ago and some of these did involve dealing with frauds…” May 28, 16:21
Alf Baird on Friends Without Benefits: “Ferry procurement would make for an interesting case study, though the beneficiaries are unlikely to be hapless politicians.” May 28, 15:58
J Robertson on Friends Without Benefits: “I notice Reputation Management closely followed by Fraud and Corporate Crime (somewhat oddly for a socially justice-minded lawyer and self…” May 28, 15:52
Marie Clark on Off-topic: “Hi Sarah and Tinto. We don’t have too many swallows this year which is a shame. We also don’t have…” May 28, 15:42
Cynicus on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Izzie, just say it: “wheesht for Indy” You know you want to.” May 28, 15:26
Rev. Stuart Campbell on No Money Back, No Guarantee: ““It has previously been suggested by Wings, that he stole this money, then partially paid it back as ‘a loan’,…” May 28, 15:14
Tom Harrison on Friends Without Benefits: “You too can learn how fraud is done and dusted in public sector by SG, PS, CPS, CO and others…” May 28, 15:04
Mark Beggan on Friends Without Benefits: “The Special Needs Party are all pointing to police Scotland. Nothing more thorough than a police investigation! So nothing to…” May 28, 14:54
paul on Friends Without Benefits: “So she was also completely unaware of her husband’s enthusiasm for female underwear and makeup? A trip to specsavers is…” May 28, 14:45
Young Lochinvar on Friends Without Benefits: “Maybe Swinney and Dot Bain should release character witness statements for Tricky Nicky. That would be interesting..” May 28, 14:38
sydthesnake on Friends Without Benefits: “Big surprise JS vetoing an independent investigations, all it takes for evil to prevail is honest people turning a blind…” May 28, 14:27
Tommy B on Friends Without Benefits: “Fraser Nelson’s contemporaneous quote-tweet of the STV News tweet: https://x.com/FraserNelson/status/1264580180288442368 Which links to the tweet in question: https://x.com/STVNews/status/1264549224739373056 Curiously, the…” May 28, 14:21
Andrea on Friends Without Benefits: “Asking again, does anyone know or can anyone surmise why the investigation took years and years, given we are not…” May 28, 14:18
Alice Timmons on Friends Without Benefits: “You are SUCH a bitch. I’ve always loved that about you!!” May 28, 13:46
Colin Alexander on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “I’ve never agreed with the “Wha’s like Us” fantasy, that politicians in Scotland have better morals and are more competent…” May 28, 13:46
Erika Watson on The Final Robbery: “I don’t think it is a coincidence that the politicians and journalists who are prepared to lie to our face…” May 28, 13:39
Spartan 117 on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Telegraph reporting that calls are growing to investigate PM further to ascertain if taxpayer funds were also defrauded. Electoral Commission…” May 28, 12:59
robertkknight on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “I can tell you what the SNP are going to do about it… NOTHING Except wring their hands and keep…” May 28, 12:55
Aidan on No Money Back, No Guarantee: “Bloomberg may have broke the story, but the analysis informing it which was apparently leaked has not been published, so…” May 28, 12:55
