Tuesday’s front page headline in The National was roughly the political equivalent of introducing yourself to your new next-door neighbour by saying “Hi, nice to meet you, I’m Jimmy from No.22 and it definitely wasn’t me who killed your cat last night”.
Humza Yousaf’s great masterplan of an independence strategy is imploding faster than the OceanGate Titan, and scarcely any less disastrously. And unless you’re one of the colleagues, family or friends of the tragic victims on board the doomed vessel, it’s even more painful to watch.
Still wondering what Humza Yousaf’s going to say to the SNP’s pretend “conference” on independence strategy this coming Saturday? Well, wonder no longer, because this morning he told Sky News.
In other words, he’s waving the white flag and praying for a miracle.
According to SNP President and acting CEO Mike Russell, SNP members are too thick to understand the concept of changing their vote, and integrity is “disruptive”.
We’re not very clear on why a revote would be susceptible to “hacking” in any way that the original vote isn’t, but we’re sure there’s a great explanation.
We’ve just been leaked this footage, apparently taken by an alert traveller, of Nicola Sturgeon at Edinburgh Airport, reacting badly to receiving news that Peter Murrell has been “unavoidably detained” and won’t be making their rendezvous to Rio.
The great unknown in the SNP leadership contest is an extremely significant one: who are the voters? Nobody but Peter Murrell really knows how many members the party has, but almost nobody believes the claimed number of over 100,000. (Our guess, based on pretty much nothing but a gut feeling, is 75,000 plus or minus 5000.)
But more to the point, nobody knows who they are. The average member age in most political parties is over 50, and according to figures published in 2019, more than 80% of SNP members are over 40, with half of those being over 60. There’s also an almost 3:2 bias in favour of men.
Humza Yousaf will not be the next First Minister of Scotland. We’re calling it now. His trainwreck of a performance on last night’s leadership election debate on STV dealt a blow to his chances that we can’t see him recovering from, and the SNP establishment is now under such intense scrutiny over the electoral process that the chances of a fix being orchestrated by Peter Murrell are receding fast.
In the debate Yousaf declared that Nicola Sturgeon was the best politician in the UK, that he wasn’t as good as her, and that she’d failed to find a successful strategy for independence and therefore he couldn’t either.
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?
agent x on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “The Scottish Government doesn’t have any money – it is taxpayers money that will pay for the failed court case.…” May 28, 18:47
Dave G on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “@James Barr Gardner Everybody remembers the Queensferry Crossing precisely because it is so unusual” May 28, 18:28
twathater on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “The standard response by the police is that they know the high heid yins but if they arrest them and…” May 28, 18:05
twathater on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “Lorn you are right that many, eg bastard tax moan and his fellow greedy bastards would have a heart attack…” May 28, 17:55
sarah on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “GGOD NEWS from Liberate Scotland about the Manifesto for Independence. At 3.35 Liberate Scotland posted their response to Peter A…” May 28, 17:49
100%Yes on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “The Scottish Government to pay the cost for the transgender supreme court failed case.” May 28, 17:34
Dan on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “The younger ADHD generation will likely toil to apply themselves to growing foodstuffs, as it takes reasonably long term attention…” May 28, 16:58
Captain Caveman on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “Kit Bee said: “Its the IT providers who see public sector contracts as a cash cow- they know every trick…” May 28, 15:11
Kit Bee on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “Captain Caveman says ‘Are civil servants even capable of running the proverbial piss up in a brewery north or south…” May 28, 13:37
robertkknight on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “Whether an independent Scotland, thanks to malicious behaviour on the part of the departing colonial power ended up behaving like…” May 28, 12:59
Hatey McHateface on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “Robin defo talks a good talk. I’d much prefer to see HR prioritising drill, baby, drill. Opening a coal mine…” May 28, 12:47
Hatey McHateface on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: ““Every disastrous policy foisted on the Scots by Holyrood is ultimately sanctioned by England and is therefore England’s disastrous policy…” May 28, 12:20
Hatey McHateface on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: ““I guess Scotland should never aspire to be a normal, independent, sovereign state” Beats me how you could read that…” May 28, 12:09
James Cheyne on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “Dan, May I add that people where they have a garden or piece of land available to them and are…” May 28, 11:56
Captain Caveman on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “As a matter of interest, has there even *ever been* a successful public sector IT project roll out in the…” May 28, 11:14
Northcode on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “This is my view. As usual – each can cleave to their own. The ‘Scottish’ government is England wearing a…” May 28, 10:49
Dan on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “Other things going on where a bit of common sense usage wouldn’t have gone a miss… I understand our Health…” May 28, 10:43
James Cheyne on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “Dan, Like your common sense approach, to many airy fairy think tanks seeking payed for employment In Scotland as there…” May 28, 10:30
Southernbystander on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “Alf, you remind me of the dad on Goodness Gracious Me who whatever his son is talking about, it is…” May 28, 10:17
robertkknight on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “I guess Scotland should never aspire to be a normal, independent, sovereign state, like the 200 or so others on…” May 28, 09:03
Sven on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “Dan @ 08.08 Always interested in your common sense posts, Dan. As someone once said, “it’s strange it’s called common…” May 28, 08:27
Hatey McHateface on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: ““the inescapable conclusion ….in the words of Mr Baird – Independence IS Decolonisation” Hey, I’m not knocking the idea, Bob,…” May 28, 08:11
Dan on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “See if your country was caught in an ongoing unmitigated disaster with aw thing like its infrastructure and services going…” May 28, 08:08
Robert Hughes on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “From Robin McAlpine’s latest ( typically incisive ) post talking about the outrageous but entirely predictable green light given to…” May 28, 07:18
Willie on What Are We, And Where Are We Going?: “The SNP are not for turning. Certainly not underthe current coterie of control that continues to show them as an…” May 28, 03:11
