Wings Over Scotland

Can you please post a link for that table which shows vote tallies, for all the regions of Scotland? Thanks.

Borderline Personality Disorder is now called Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder. (It was previously thought to exist on the borderline between neurotic and psychotic)

It shares a lot of “symptoms” with PTSD and is seen as untreatable in itself, only secondary illnesses like depression and anxiety are medicated for.

One of the most problematic symptoms is ‘splitting’ – rapid change of opinion about someone or something…love/hate exist at the same time.

I hope she can cope with the pressure that being a politician brings.

As my granny used to say,

`It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt`

Miss/Mrs/Mizz Roddick might be grade 1 SNP stoopit but

£65,000 a year for the next 5 years – £325,000 plus expenses,

no that stoopit.

These troughers serve us up children’s paintings as if they’re really Picassos.
Even though I was never a member in ye aulden times, I really feel Barrhead Boy’s pain when he reminisces about the old SNP, the one before it was turned into the North Korean People’s Marching Army of Presidential Excellence.
As for Emma Roddick, surely she’s only towing the post-election party line that wants the scalpel to twist further into the beaten body of Alba. I’m not at all convinced she is that stupid…yet. Party politics will eventually make her as effortlessly brainless as John Mason…all in good time.

Just another loyal Sturgeonite drone, ready to fall to their knees and worship at the feet of the Dear Leader. Lobby fodder says as lobby fodder does…

Al-Stuart says:
9 May, 2021 at 5:15 am

“Also, I think by the end of this year, AT LEAST ONE SNP MSP will have crossed the floor at Holyrood on point of principle.”

Given their voting record on the Hate Crime Bill, i don’t know of any who have any principles so, unfortunately, I can’t see it.

Al-Stuart says:
9 May, 2021 at 5:15 am

“Also, I think by the end of this year, AT LEAST ONE SNP MSP will have crossed the floor at Holyrood on point of principle.”

Given their voting record on the Hate Crime Bill, i don’t know of any who have any principles so, unfortunately, I can’t see it.

As for Roddick’s lie – unfortunately people will believe it because they won’t even bother trying to work it out – they’ll just believe every word that comes out of her mouth. Imbeciles voted in by imbeciles.

Neat con job to have a voting system where a second vote, instead of this being used as an opportunity to vote for another Party as a signal that you don’t unreservedly support the first Party, means that when people do actually vote for the same Party on a second vote, in a fair system that would mean that people do unreservedly support the first Party that they voted for. It should therefore reinforce the first vote. We get the opposite where it penalises it. It’s no surprise that probably most folk think Scotland’s voting system is the former, supported as it is by the SNP, but having a voting system that the majority of voters simply don’t understand, combined with a system in Scotland that does the opposite of what it should (and is claimed to do) is just corrupt.

@Scott: BPD is actually treatable. It requires a specific type of intervention based on behaviour change rather than medication. With the correct treatment, BPD patients can and do recover. Why the SNP thinks it is a disability is beyond me.

I have been diagnosed with BPD (among other things) and struggle to contain myself on twitter; if I were stupid enough to seek, and gain, election to Holyrood, Taggart would have to be on call 24/7.

“Thur’s been ANOTHER murder.”

They’re here.
Run for the hills.

Alibi says:
9 May, 2021 at 7:19 am

Tell that to Stewart MCDonald who won nobody over with his gloating tweet about Alex Salmond. We’ll never win over Britnats like him – and the SNP seems stuffed with them.

In amongst all the excitement, one nugget of consolation.

At least a certain lazy,carpetbagging entryist who isnt too bothered about nepotism didnt get through on the list

I notice the SNP now peddling the “pro-indy majority”. The irony.
The truth is Nicola is in her comfort zone with Annie and Murdo in opposition rather than people who effectively challenge her.

The day got worse when I saw Paul Sweeny’s name on the list.. :’(

Roddick is going to be toxic. She was sacked from her staffer job at Holyrood before for being lazy, sleeping at her desk, lying on her CV, stinking after doing all nighters and coming straight into work, fabricating stories then briefing them to the whips, hacking an MSPs personal messages then giving them to the press and having a ‘close’ relationship with a married journalist. All in the space of three months. She has never held down a job for more than 3 months in her life but now she has been handed a 5 year job at £65k a year which she cannot be sacked from. You are right, she will burn the place to the ground in a week.

Wow – if you thought John Mason was an embarrassment to the party, it’s going to get a lot worse. The lunatics have taken over the asylum and the SNP leadership have only themselves to blame. Positive discrimination is anything but positive. Only a matter of time – the MSM are going to have a field day.

What we already knew was coming. The SNP betrayal.

Update on Peoples Action on Section 30

Dear Backers,

So the election is over, the SNP have failed to gain a majority, they talk about putting forward the bill that they haven’t tested is competent or not and a legal battle between the Scottish Government and the UK Government is about to ensue (when the SNP eventually get round to their bill). That fight will be exactly the same one that this case was supposed to prevent, but due to the SNP opposing it at every turn, that question, which has festered for 22 years will now not be answered.

It is questionable whether we will be able to overcome the difficulty of standing in the case, and we mere plebians who should not be attempting to stand in the shoes of parliamentarians (as the lord advocate on behalf of the Scottish Government said) may not be able to overcome that hurdle.

The results for Mid-Scotland and Fife have not yet been returned, but it is likely that when they are, there will be 6 unionists on the list and the pursuer acting on your behalf (myself) will obviously not also become a parliamentarian to protect this case.

We may not be able to progress further. I’ll be meeting with counsel this week to discuss next steps and if there is a route of appeal to the UK supreme court, and we will see what the plan of attack is, but you now need to know what could happen in the coming year because of all of this.

I made an error over the last year or so, I put faith in the fact that a party that proclaims that “the people’s voice must be heard” would allow their voice to be heard and a very reasonable question to be answered. On that, I was grievously wrong. The Scottish Government have blocked this action at every point, which is a shame because it would not only have proven that the Scottish Parliament has the right to legislate for a referendum without a section 30 order, meaning that the UK Government would have had nothing to challenge, but it also makes such a challenge almost certain. What is for sure is that in the coming months, is that I, and you will be shoved under the bus by politicians for the purposes of covering their own backsides.

My error was not to break from the normal rules of court and show you every document so you could see for yourself because I was trying to walk a fine line so as not to cause collateral damage for the movement by giving the unionists something to use against the SNP. For that, I apologise. However, I do not apologise for this action, because it was right and it was justified, even if those in political office want to act like children. You have all been an inspiration through this and I promise that I am not going to give up. I remember the pledge I gave you all at the start of this and I intend to see it through to the end, however far that goes.

What I will say is that the warnings I have been giving for the past year and a half that the SNP were walking into a trap are now very real. When the UK Government challenges the SNP’s bill it cannot become law. It cannot gain royal assent. This is precisely what happened with the continuity bill. And while the SNP and the Tories are fighting it out in court I can almost guarantee that the tories will use that time to modify and pass legislation to take parts of the SNP bill out of the competency of the Scottish Parliament. The court having to rule on the law at the time, exactly the same scenario as happened with the continuity bill is likely to happen – the court will have to interpret the parts of the bill removed from competency by Westminster legislation as incompatible with devolution and consequentially the bill will be struck down.

Or to put it in simple terms you’ve heard me use many times (and counsel) we’re about to face constitutional paralysis. I pray I am wrong but I don’t think I am.

Anyway, I shall update you when I know more and heck, I can’t tell if I got 5 votes or 50,000 because it’s not been announced yet, but you never know – that rocket falling to earth might land on the table with all the ballots, open a chasm beneath them and we’ll have to re-run the mid-scotland and fife election. But I wouldn’t hold my breath. LOL

For myself, the next steps are likely the UK Government and Lord Advocate coming after me for the fees for the other side when this is all said and done. No parliamentary seat, no protected expenses order. What I will say is that I would appreciate it if you could all stay out of this part of things – please respect that (because people have asked). If you involve yourself, you could open yourself to potential liability and I don’t want to see that happening. I knew what I was signing up for. I’ll face the consequences. Those consequences were what stopped any of the politicians becoming pursuers themselves.

I shall, as usual update you when I know more. I hope you are all safe and well

Sincerely,

Martin Keatings

@Socrates MacSporran

University education these days isn’t what it once was – then it was there to make you think.
If your grand-daughter can call Salmond a sleaze-ball, I don’t think much of her reading skills or intelligence…no one could read/follow the case and call him that.

No one comes close to Salmond in politics – in the UK not just Scotland.

Console yourself that your intelligence is far greater than those in your household.

@DaveM The definition of disability is

“You’re disabled under the Equality Act 2010 if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities.”

So BPD is disabilty, whether Roddick should be a MSP is quite another matter.

The crying shame is that we lost Joan McAlpine and Paul Wheelhouse. Joan is reputed to have won the most members votes for list ranking not only in the South of Scotland but in all of Scotland. Paul Wheelhouse has an (unknown to me) disability but chose not to take advantage of it in the gerrymandered listing. Emma Harper did, leapfrogged over Joan and got the second of the 2 SNP list seats.

Several women on twitter have said they would help crowdfund a legal challenge for Joan because as Jonathan Mitchell QC advised this gerrymandering is illegal and could cost the SNP a six figure sum if challenged in Court.

So would Narcissistic Personality Disorder also get a candidate to the top of the heap?

No, don’t answer that.

Jeezo, you lot hurting much, get over it your a busted flush!!

Ms Roddick sounds like Ms Sturgeon’s ideal MSP.

As someone with a malignant narcissistic personality, Ms Sturgeon simply cannot afford to surround herself with highly intelligent, competent, people able to think for themselves, unless they repeatedly and publicly express undying admiration, devotion and loyalty to Ms Sturgeon – (about and for whom the whole movement exists) – in which case they are not highly intelligent, competent, people able to think for themselves.

Ask Joanna Cherry!

Socrates- Just wait until Leslie Evans is dragged to a real court and Sturgeon as a witness. I prefer truth to popularity.

If it’s any consolation , no-one believes me about Sturgeon either. Remember that a lie told in the press , spreads like a cancer.

Alex will have his justice. If it removes Sturgeon from office, then thats also a victory for the yes movement.

Well folks you know what would really hurt the Scottish and British establishments? They may gloat now and they probably expect ALBA to fold soon. They still fear us however and all we have to do is keep going. I really hope Salmond and ALBA stay in the fight because there are going to be many unpredictable and unexpected twists and turns in the next couple of years. Council elections next year and under STV a real opportunity to destroy a few evil Yoon councils methinks. Hopefully the SNP will at last see the b benefits of an Alba Party fighting alongside. Probably not but heck we don’t need them anyway. All we need is time, organisation and a lot of effort. Furthermore the lock down cannot persist forever and folk will be out marching again. We can do this. Stay focussed and never give up. Don’t worry about the lunatics they will destroy themselves. They always do. 🙂

Tried explaining the bias of the AS trial and the d’Hont system to two friends whom we ‘converted’ to independence in 2014 with absolutely no success. They were supporting Nicola and even if AS was found not guilty he was ‘still obviously a sleaze’.

Independence in my lifetime? I’d almost bet two lifetimes wouldn’t let me see it.

WOW sorry cant bite my tongue here, but can we please be careful about how we discuss folks with mental health issues. Some of these comments are what id expect from trolls with nothing better to do. This is disgraceful.

Swindler’s List – Episode 1 – The Chronicles of Roddick

Do the math! Unfortunately, the punters didn’t.
The independence keys are in the door…
What door’s that then?

ALBA is a necessary reminder to the powers in office what their priority rationale is.
It will have plenty of opportunity to do so.
If the leader doesn’t lead then ALBA must.

Ok, all you SNP voters, what happens now?

Nicola is back where you wanted her.

It was you lot who wanted this mythical Supermajority.

It was you lot who attacked anybody who even suggested Voting for Sarwar in her Constituency Vote. They were labelled as Yoons, 77th and other strange childish names.

So you have got your way, what’s the next move?

Or have we to just sit and wait?

Or are you just going to just go on to Wings and call the very people you voted for, all the thick perverted Bastards under the sun?

You lot are the thick hypocritical nutcases the SNP lap up.

Now we sit back and watch the game of “let’s pretend” play out. Nicola Sturgeon will pretend she’s going to deliver independence and Boris Johnson will pretend he’s going to block it. Five years from now we’ll be no further forward. By then, many of the stalwarts who’ve dedicated their lives to building the movement will have fled the country in despair or in fear of being locked up for saying the wrong thing or holding an illegal opinion.

Welcome to the Matriarchy.

Rev
SNP2 was a wasted vote as your picture nicely illustrates.
It squeezed out any hope for Alba and shows that the most dominant emotion within Nicola Sturgeon is a visceral hatred of Alex Salmond.

I have something to say to this lady:

1. What exactly makes you think all us Alba voters would have voted for the SNP if Alba did not exist?

2. What exactly makes you think you can just count our votes as if they ever were SNP votes? They were not, they are not and they will not be.

If you were even moderately aware of what is around you, you would have realised that Mr Salmond did your boss a favour. Yes, despite all what she put him through, he still proved to be the better person of the two and put country before himself for the sake of independence, in contrast with your boss, who always puts her own overinflated ego before anything else and always chooses tactics that push independence down the road.

Mr Salmond managed to get quite a few extra votes for the SNP in the constituency that otherwise would become spoiled ballots or go somewhere else. I am still waiting for your acknowledgement of that and for your thanks to the Alba voters for lending your undeserving party their constituency votes.

So what are you waiting for?

Not that the party that your boss has completely eviscerated as an independence party deserves the favour. But still Mr Salmond did it for the sake of a supermajority that would have accelerated independence. A supermajority that your boss together with her praetorian guard were so keen to trash by preserving the seats of the unionists. The arrogance of your boss, her total contempt for independence and her treating of voters as cannon fodder to massage her ego, simply deliberately destroyed that supermajority by asking SNP1 and SNP2. All because she could not possible stand having ALBA represented in the Holyrood chamber demonstrating just how little appetite for independence she actually has and how mediocre as a leader she is.

If an average person like me with a calculator can work out that the SNP would lose most of the list seats this time round, so could her, so could Smith, so could the expensive advisers she is paying with our taxpayers’ money and frankly so could you, if you only had the interest to do so.

Well, by asking SNP1 and SNP2, Nicola Sturgeon simply deliberately threw over one million votes in the bin. And in doing so she allowed the unionists to keep her seats. Perhaps this was her purpose after all. I cannot think in any other reason.

Are you going to ask from her to apologise to the SNP voters for destroying their possibilities of a supermajority and for using their votes as at tool to preserve the unionists’ seats as she used previously our yes votes to preserve the union and to force on us toxic policies?

It is always so easy to look at the bit of dust in the eye of the neighbour but so difficult to actually look at the chunk of wood that is in your own. To criticise Alba for handing over their votes to the SNP in the constituency but to ignore the fact that yourself and your boss have in fact asked over one million SNP voters to waste their SNP list votes so the unionists could keep their presence in Holyrood and so Johnson can continue denying us the referendum is profoundly dishonest.

I do not know what makes these people, and you, think that our votes are disposable.

Just in case you did not realise yet, some of those Alba voters in the list only voted SNP with a peg in the nose and containing their impulses to vomit because Mr Salmond asked them to do it. Those people, in the absence of ALBA would have spoiled their ballot or actually voted for another party. So their list votes are not for your party’s to consider its votes. They are not. Your party ALREADY lost those votes and will lose even more when all that one million SNP voters who wasted their list votes in the altar of your boss’ ego, realise what your boss and you were asking them to do.

So it is about time you left the arrogance aside and start to be grateful to those ALBA voters for their generosity lending their constituency vote, morally quite difficult, to the SNP.

Those generous voters do not include me, by the way. I could not resist the impulse to vomit when attempting to put a cross near to the SNP, peg or no peg. When my pen got anywhere near that square, suddenly, the corruption, the disloyalty to Mr Salmond, the insulting way Sturgeon kept in post the most incompetent permanent secretary in Scotland’s history, the hundreds of thousands of taxpayers’ funds used in her narcissistic exercise to block the only person that the SNP can call a leader in the last 20 years, the way, under her watch, she allow the ring fenced money to disappear, the contempt shown to yes voters by denying us our democratic mandate for indyref and our democratic mandate to remain in the EU, her contempt for women forcing on us such toxic policies to erode our rights, her contempt undermining our popular sovereignty and handing over our powers to Westminster came rushing through to my mind like a furious tornado.

You can confidently say that 2019 was the last time the SNP saw my vote. I will not vote SNP in 2024 for the single reason that if there is still a GE in 3 years’ time, it will be because despite having all the majorities and votes they have ever needed to progress the cause of independence, under your boss they have deliberately failed to do so and therefore deliberately failed to fulfil the main reason why I have ever lent them my vote.

In conclusion, I do not know what makes you think our vote for Alba in the list is transferable to the SNP when if Alba did not exist, I would have spoiled it before endorsing a disembowelled party that is so rotten morally and democratically that still keeps the most corrupt FM of Scotland’s history, an individual that appears to be allergic to independence, as “leader”.

Have a nice day.

Breeks,

You don’t hauf talk a lot of fuckin shite mate.

How did your plan to vote SNP and to tell everybody we know to vote SNP work out?

Al Stuart, 5.15am

That’s an awful lot of reporting and grassing you are doing there Al.

Of course you’re an expert at that int ye Al?

How many grassin emails have you sent off to the Rev?

Carole Neill @6.23

Happy Birthday and have a lovely day with family. Scotland is still here and we will get out of the rabbit hole eventually.

Carol Neill says:
9 May, 2021 at 6:23 am
Good morning all as I wake up on my birthday , wings still here , my pair of wood pigeons canoodling on the fence

Well Carol Neill. Happy Birthday.

My two widdies were having a wee tiff this morning and flapping wings at each other on my neighbours roof. Whether that was a wee fall out because one was for Alba and one for SNP I don’t know. Anyhow looks like none of them will sow their oats this morning. Think the marriage is off for a wee bit with them. No doubt they’ll make up, lol

SNP and ALBA on the other hand I doubt it. The woman is Medusa without any of the beauty, but plenty of snakes around her head.

Gosh – it looks like the ‘strangers’ on this website must have been given a day off post election and are now putting in a shift. Same old, same old.

Sara@8.11am

Yes a “University Degree” now is the equivalent of a Higher National Certificate from say Stevenson College in the late 1970s. Probably in a few years they’ll just hand them out on “Fresher’s Day” and be done with it.

Gordon Gekko at 9.36am

“ Let’s rephrase that with the truth. We’ve now had two Scottish elections where a new pro-Brussels to run Scotland party win the election.”

Ain’t that the truth, Sir! While the Great Helmswoman preens herself on achieving the most votes ever, much of them will have been garnered from the increasing constituency of what I call secessionist/remainers who want to punish the UK voters for leaving membership of the EU and see it as a way to indulge their supranationalist fantasy.

I’m going to be positive today despite my better judgement. Time was bought yesterday that’s all. Time for the union, time for the criminals at the heart of the SNP. A little time was bought using a corrupt wee electoral system designed to keep Jock in the box. That’s all. All that effort, criminality, expenditure, media black out etc. It just bought them a little time.

No majority was inevitable. The system is designed to prevent it, it suits the devolutionist imposter in Bute House, it suits Westminster, it suits Scottish unionists.

I had €1570 on No majority on Betfair at prices between 2.4 and 1.67 that returned €3200 plus €150 @ 1.85 on 365 and €150 @ 1.67 on smarkets

I was close to going against Robertson in Edinburgh Central at 6.25 but what tipped it for me is the fact that he’s a friend of the security services and his wife is…. (can’t say anything more about that can we). In the end I thought he was a cert and managed to get about 800 on him at 1.39 and 1.3. Also found a crazy 1.12 on Sturgeon to win her seat but I could only get €100 on it.

The last couple of years have been the most depressing, disgusting, example of unchecked power in government that I can recall in my lifetime.

I wish I still cared enough to do something about it, but I don’t live in Scotland and I certainly would not move my wife and child to somewhere that will make us poorer with a significantly lower quality of life.

In fact I have no intention of returning to Scotland until The SNP are no longer in power because I’m afraid that I will be imprisoned for things that I have tweeted.

My wife and I were talking about it yesterday. We live in Ireland because she was refused entry to the UK five years ago. Like everyone else, we’ve been locked in the house for a year, but in Ireland we are cash rich. My business has been comprehensively destroyed and we’ve never been wealthier. Fantastic state support by the way.

Anyway, she has Irish status now and suggested that when the restrictions are lifted we go over to see some family and show my daughter where I grew up. I had to explain that it’s no longer possible for me to return. That I exposed the criminality of the wife of a minister in the next government on twitter and I’m afraid that I will be arrested as soon as I step off the boat from Belfast. Fortunately she’s from a country that has been ruled by either the military or total thieves for most of it’s existence so she understands these sort of things

I’m not an ex ambassador with social media skills and no previous convictions either!
I’ll go downtown on the fast train to the big hoose in Riddrie quicker than I can say “What do you mean what gender am I?”

A question and a statement for any SNP types here?

Is it possible to self ID as an irrelevant political exile in the SNP’s shiny progressive Scotland?

And, constitutional issues aside.

It’s all about pussy for me. The look, feel, touch, and taste of pussy. Real pussy too. Not some imitation, designer pussy, carved from other cells or grown in a test tube, in a “style” that you’ve chosen in some NHS Scotland brochure. Won’t have the smell pal. And the smell is part of the real pussy, which is part of the real woman.

No God given natural pussy and you are not, and never will be a woman to me.

I’ll treat you like anyone else, I’ll call you whatever name you choose. I’d be the guy that would step up to defend you if you were being attacked while everyone stood by and watched. But I will not be told what to say and think thank you. Up is down, black is white, might work on your electorate but they don’t fool people not exposed to your propoganda.

Looking in from outside, Scotland appears as a half Bantustan, half ex Soviet Republic with the resultant corruption and weirdo, incompetent rulers enthralled to the dominating power. Who knows how it ends up.

I’ve never felt more distant to the nation that begat me but the only thing certain in life is change. (I know I stole it from Hereclites)

Good to see Wings here this morning.

So the “Both Votes SNP” strategy didn’t work. Who’da thunk it, eh?

One thing is clear we’re at that stage of pinning a yellow rosette on a donkey and it would be elected.

One moment I’m swinging from relief/being pissed/apathy.

Already the excuses are in for not delivering Independence Ref straight away’ economic recovery’ blah, blah, blah.

I wouldn’t put it past the SNP to blame the voters for not getting a majority, despite the message being “Both Votes SNP”. If its not them it’s the big bad Boris Johnson.

Let’s sit back and watch the excuses trundle out.

For all you posting telling us how really really bad Nicola Sturgeon and her cult are, there was some of us on Wings who knew all that long before the 6th of May.

Glad to see the slow thinkers are catching up.

Jesus fuck.

You better lay off Roddick Stu. With her CV you could be getting stuck into the new justice minister there. Tread carefully, lol

Snap out of this delusion. Stop trying to deny it. Right now Fiscal surveillance cannot be stopped if we win independence.

Who’s going to stop it ?

You won’t you couldn’t even get voters to vote for Alba in this election.

What Roddick and the like fail to appreciate is that if it wasn’t for AS promoting the SNP 1 ALBA 2 strategy, the likes of me would’ve either stayed at home, or adopted SPOIL 1 ALBA/ISP 2.

So all the Constituency votes the SNP picked up because of ALBA voters like me would’ve gone asking. As it stands, the SNP likely picked up 40,000+ votes on the Constituency due to ALBA voters and Roddick has the brass neck to complain. Muppet!

Getting beat by a worthy opponent is bad enough but getting beat by that lot must really hurt.

Facts as you are finding out are irrelevant in a pist-truth world.

If I was you I would give up.

The British are supposed to have more political savvy than most. However, in reality, they simply mark a piece of paper and imagine that’s democracy, just like all the rest.
Rather infantile, but that’s the way the system wants it.
Just sign here, dont trouble yourself about the details and that small print stuff.
Trust us, we’re politicians…very likely in the pocket of some mega rich «humanitarian».
If ever a group needed constant 24/7 oversight.
Wings, ALBA….more power!

@ Meg merrilees

It is very dissapointing to read about the reasons some folk give as to their voting actions.
If yer niece is so switched on and concerned with inappropriate behaviour then why the hell did she vote SNP at all.
There are many accounts of inappropriate behaviours relating to sexual interactions by many still in the SNP that have been glossed over or covered up.
Plenty screwing around, touching folk up etc.
Are these abusive behaviors only deemed an issue by principled people if they are carried out by certain individuals whilst others get a free pass.

Unless she was in North East Region she wouldn’t actually be voting for Alex, she’d be voting for the local candidates.
EG. In Mid-Scot & Fife Region the choice between the SNP or Alba ranked 1 candidates was either SNP – Stefan Hoggan-Radu, or for Alba – Eva Comrie, who I understand is a lawyer specialising in family law who was initially ranked 1st on the SNP List. So she had passed SNP vetting and was deemed suitable and more worthy than Stefan, but she decided to move over to Alba.

Bottom line is most folk didn’t have a fuckin clue who they were voting for, or the policies their respective Parties are pushing for because they lacked the gumption to check the candidates credentials.
Scotland has a switched on electorate my arse…

Stop chasing Squirrels.

Drop the EGO. The battle of look it’s a man, now it’s a women , no it’s transgender is over.

It finished months ago but you can’t let it go. Drop it like a load of bricks and move on.

How you stop fiscal surveillance from being implemented in Scotland by Brussels. Is the most important issue of our times. Most important issue for the last 100 years.

So what are your plans to stop fiscal surveillance ?

Do you have anything concrete ?

Or is it stand with your fingers crossed behind your back ?

The only way to stop it right now today is to lose another referendum vote. That is simply unacceptable.

The best plan should have been to take a hit at this election.

It would have meant a Yoon majority, but at least we would have voted the SNP out of office.

But the selfish SNP 1 Voters just couldn’t wait another five years, so they went for broke and voted for the SNP, hoping ALBA would have some kind of influence over the SNP.

Now any idiot could see that was never going to happen.

So, all those who wanted Sturgeon and the SNP to remain in power, this is your baby, and by the stench coming from Bute House, I think it needs it nappy changed.

Mrs Blinkty blink is on the Marr show just now .

Gordon Gekko says:
9 May, 2021 at 10:03 am

Stop chasing Squirrels.

Drop the EGO. The battle of look it’s a man, now it’s a women , no it’s transgender is over.

It finished months ago but you can’t let it go. Drop it like a load of bricks and move on.

How you stop fiscal surveillance from being implemented in Scotland by Brussels. Is the most important issue of our times. Most important issue for the last 100 years.

So what are your plans to stop fiscal surveillance ?

Do you have anything concrete ?

Or is it stand with your fingers crossed behind your back ?

The only way to stop it right now today is to lose another referendum vote. That is simply unacceptable.

—

Did you sit on your keyboard?

Ottomanboi
Our anodyne democracy only works when the government’s powers are strictly limited and individual liberties are protected and respected.
That’s why some of us are objecting so strongly to the Hate Crimes Bill and GRA, etc.
They represent government overreach.

Excellent analysis rev.

Being a fucking bampot and/or a careerist pervert, is a must have to qualify to be an SNP candidate!

Whilst an independence supporter, My other half used to refer to the SNP as the special needs party.
Many a true word said in jest!

I would mind these dad individuals wanting to to get o in life, but fucking up the independence cause is far too high a price!

Greedy thick bastards subservient to the chief wich is harming independence.

Bunch of sad pathetic hunts now popular the SNP!

James Kelly has an article which suggests that Patrick Harvie’s band of gender warriors missed out on a couple of list seats because voters may have mistakenly voted for the “Independent Green Voice”. It seems that the “Independent Green Voice” are not even a party that promotes ‘Green’ causes and are instead a right wing British Nationalist Party.

Isn’t it terrible when people call themseleves something they are not and deny an opprotunity to those that are truly the real thing? If I was the Green party I would demand laws to protect situations like this from happening again

Oops I forgot to add the tellytuby Fat hunt Blackford is also on I bet he won’t go head to head with Alex because that would be really embarrassing for to clown Bawjaws regularly laughs at

‘SNP office holders are now more like late-era, erratic, highly troubled Big Brother contestants. Yes, expect Roddick to have a senior cabinet role within months. Probably finance. Then FM. Angus was a decoy, this superb politician really is the Chosen One.’

Couldn’t agree more – you missed that dishevelled old-tramp James Wolffe though. If ever there was a number-one highly troubled Big Brother contestant at Holyrood it would be him. Where does fit-in?

Alibi says:
9 May, 2021 at 7:19 am
“If Alba is to survive, this bitterness and abuse needs to stop”

I fear you are probably right. It won’t be easy to turn down the temperature though, while making every critique of the SNP necessary, because there are so, so many. For example, what are above the line here rightly called “box ticking identity politics boneheads” are put in place largely for the simple reason that they’re pliable cogs in a party machine.

We’re talking about a taxpayer funded 65K a year position that largely revolves around reading the room and expressing the most sycophantic sentiments towards the leadership humanly possible in the subtle form of a spicy take on Twitter. If that isn’t worthy of polemic, what is?

Stuart MacKay says:
9 May, 2021 at 8:58 am

I really don’t know Stuart but I can tell you that when I’ve talked to both votes SNP fans in my area some felt that in Dumfriesshire it was necessary to get Joan McAlpine back in. I don’t know if they realised that Joan was not top of the list due to Harper’s “disability”. I tried to bring this up but just got “No. it has to be both votes SNP”. Some were even happy to campaign for Harper and couldn’t understand my hostility because “She’s SNP, so that’s OK”.

I’ve also tried to raise the issue of women’s rights but my protests fall on deaf ears. They either don’t believe it’s true or believe that we can “fix everything after indy”

Many still think it is part of Nikla’s big master plan and she is being very clever in not revealing her strategy to anyone.

What is most worrying is that these are not stupid people but they are people who are so desperate for independence that they don’t seem to want to believe that the SNP are not going to deliver.They are older people who saw this is there last chance and who see the SNP as the only route. I feel sick that they have been lied to.

I’m an older woman who didn’t wheesht but it feels like there is only one women that SNP diehards are willing to listen to – and they swallow every lie she tells.

By the way – I’ve searched for the breakdown of regional list voting figures but can’t find them on my google machine. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

@socrates

“ALBA MUST DO what the SNP has failed to do – properly cost Independence.

This will mean forensic research, establishing once and for all, how much Scotland subsidises the UK, and proving how false all the UK pish such as GERS is.”

Well they have 3/4 economists on board, Salmond, George Keraven, Jim Wilson plus Craig Berry of Common Weal so the expertise is there to do that. The trick will be presenting in in a way that the lay member of the public can digest.

One of the things this election and your family experience shows is that people are either too stupid, too biased or too busy to absorb complex messages.

Both votes SNP was monumentally stupid if you wanted to deliver a pro indy parliament but by God it was easy to parrot and easy to remember.

@wee chid

Full results inc list here.

link to en.wikipedia.org

While it is laudable that legislation and company policies protect disabilities within the workforce, it has to be common sense that some disabilities are incompatible with some occupations.

Personality disorders, violent mood swings and erratic and unpredictable actions are as incompatible with being an elected politician as blindness is to a pilot or spinal injury to a ballerina.

The role of the BBC in this, and in spreading gender pilgrimism, cannot be overestimated.

Imagine actually choosing to vote for this. Especially shameful for the people who should have known better as they’re steeped in politics.

The debate on EU fiscal surveillance and EFTA surveillance authority has been so bad in Scotland because people chase squirrels.

It is quickly becoming the most important debate in the last 100 years bar none.

And Scottish voters are sleep walking into a neoliberal globalist nightmare. The SNP the Greens and Alba are walking them there.

Re: Clan Donald at 10:38 am and panda paws earlier on. Do we know what is the alleged disability which catapulted Emma Harper to the top of the South of Scotland list over better people? I think we are entitled to know since this is the basis upon which she has been elected.

I just had a week look around twitter and found some eye watering stuff about Emma Roddick – what a nasty piece of work, she has maade lot of enemies in her short political career so far.

For example, I found this archive thread where she’s having a dispute with an ex-SNP staffer colleague and threatening legal action when the colleague mentioned Roddick was sacked after her sudden departure from the post. The colleague accuses her of lying.

link to archive.is

Not exactly a professional way to conduct yourself on social media.

There was another occasion when a women’s pledge member wrote a private letter to Roddick about signing the women’s pledge and the letter “mysteriously” ended up being reported on in the press along with a total “anti-trans” smear job on the woman, a lesbian. Roddick denied all knowledge despite being the only person who received the letter. What a hideous woman she is. Don’t ever write to her as your MSP as she clearly can’t keep correspondence confidential.

The truth is the unstable Roddick would be nowhere near power if she weren’t elevated there as one of the First Minister’s trans activist youth pets. She’s exactly the sort of person who would never have passed vetting until these mens rights activists seized control of the SNP then started manipulating the rules to get their yes men in place.

Hovever, her erratic instability should provide us with plenty entertainment and popcorn moments going forward. Not so sure the FM will enjoy it so much though.

We had become desperate. Then ALBA was born and Alex came back to the political scene. Our hearts and minds soared and gave us the impetus to surge forward in hope.
We are a romantic, Latin, Celtic and passionate people.
Reality has, as so often before, come back and slapped us in the face like a cold, wet kipper.

In the cold light of dawn, let’s look at the options from here on. I’m no genius but I do have a good basis of common sense.

ALBA is right for our future. Several seasoned politicians in whom we have confidence have taken the huge leap of faith and will now have to make sacrifices to keep the momentum going for ALBA.
They need our support and encouragement.
Martin Keatings’ excellent crowd funded initiative is in grave danger of not only being ditched but of being used against us to stymie us for the foreseeable future.

Now is the time to regroup, analyse the situation, grit our teeth and plan a better strategy.
The posts here (and my own deductions on social media) reflect that Young Scotland has been adversely and maliciously groomed by Nicola Sturgeon personally and the MSM in general to sew a huge label of sl***e on Alex Salmond’s back and have been ostensibly pointing to it at every opportunity. Would we not, as young idealists tend to believe what we read and hear and echo that opinion? I probably would have too in those circumstances.
ALBA and TRUTH and GOOD GOVERNANCE will prevail! It’s now on for the long haul, probably not in my lifetime but we will win. Alex Salmond needs to be forensic, persistent and systematic in restoring the truth, in showing through the courts who he really is. This means that he MUST, for the sake of our young population and for history expose all falsehoods purported against him. The public will support the costs, I have no doubt.
Hopefully and indeed as history shows us, the truth will out at some point and the villains will hang themselves all by themselves.

I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, the BBC bloody stinks. They are only interested in people like them. Urban, wealthy, slightly liberal when it suits them, Blairite knobs. The rest of us are but dust beneath their expensively shod trotters. They will back the SNP in its current form because it suits them to do so as it upsets everybody else.
Putting that to one side. I do see hope for Alba, lots of hope. Somebody will need to be there when Sturgeon eventually explodes and takes her disgusting clique with her. It’s time to build. Time to fight every available election, council, general, Scottish. Concentrate on Sturgeon and her band of misfits, take the battle to them. Tories? Labour? An irrelevance right now, as proven by the recent results, they are all preserved in aspic and not capable of moving forward as things stand. Their leaders are crap. Pick your target and go for it with everything you’ve got.
Yes I am a unionist but I can also see how very bad things are up here and the need for good people to come to the aid of their country in droves. Alba droves because Scotland has nothing else.

Ottomanboi
You are correct that the powers of the elector are limited mainly to voting for a particular candidate at election time. Powers of recall have recently been introduced.
Full “Greek style” democracy is not practical.
(Of course the Greeks didn’t have government for the people by the people either)

A move towards a more engaged electorate with greater powers vis a vis their “representatives” is perhaps necessary to combat the over-reaching of government into the private lives of the individual.

Quite what these greater powers should be is a matter for debate.

I’m sure people in Turriff and Mintlaw are gutted not to be represented by a Nigerian Muslim woman whose only qualification is being a Nigerian Muslim woman and whose main interest is getting more Nigerian Muslim women elected onto the Scottish politics gravy train / clown car. But Allah obviously doesn’t will it, and for that I am thankful.

At least the good people of Stornoway have an emotionally abusive mentalist to represent them. I think I might shit my biodegradable locally sourced adult nappies out of sheer joy at how stunning and brave, and brave and stunning, and brunningly stave (don’t mock my dyslexia or I’m phoning Humza) having Glenn Close’s character from FATAL ATTRACTION making our laws IRL is going to be. Tough luck, bunnies.

Btw, is Fiona Robertson a man, or is the SNP secretly experimenting with supermutants like in Fallout 3?

Those who hated the revelations of this site have their independence majority

So,

Let’s ask them everyday

When is the independence referendum happening?

Maybe the Rev can put a countdown clock at the top of the page

Showing the number of days left to the next Hollyrood election

Bartleby64
Thanks for your reply on the other thread.

The question is, what did Neave do after MI9?
It seems clear that he worked in the security services whilst an MP and up until the time of his death.
There is some speculation that he was involved in the smearing of political figures/Northern Ireland and that he may not have been killed by the republicans.
His wife’s appeals for an enquiry, before her death, imply this.

I say all this to illustrate the form the security services have if smearing political figures.

That has made me smile for the first time in days

@Socrates MacSporran
Don’t take it personally. University teaches people to be conformist to the controlling power above all else. That’s been proven in a number of studies. It’s why they come out more woke than ever on average. They’ve been political indoctrination centres for some time by now.

@Mr Bonobo
Suggesting those people can’t do those jobs will probably be a crime by this time next election cycle.

@Gordon Gekko
A guarantee of work would sure turn things around so we didn’t get the sad sight of people begging for a zero hours contract shift that day at Greggs or whatever and the owners using that as an excuse to treat people like garbage with no rights as they’re too scared to lose on the only money or sniff of a job they can get. Productive and secure people who can hold some dignity are happier and don’t have the abusive stress of the current system grinding them down.

Every time I hear about some menial job getting hundreds of (obviously doomed) applications in despartion for anything I despair as it’s another sign of failure in how the country is run.

@ A Roy

Emma Harper I believe has diabetes. Don’t know which type.

@Ottomanboi
Looks like we’re reaching nearer the endgame for the power grab and future tech based dictatorship. It keeps creeping in slowly and it’s slow enough people don’t even notice it moving until it hits them. These systems will obviously be used to police speech and thought and simply nip in the bud any dissent or independents that try to advocate any political opposition that they do not control or approve of.

It’ll be a jackboot stamping on a human face forever, but every five years they’ll let you choose what colour the boot is and you’ll be thankful for that “right”.

Again another million plus votes wasted on the list for the SNP.

Now we’ll have five more years of Sturgeon the Betrayer saying they’ll be an indyref, and five more years of Johnson, and if he has a successor, saying no and the stalemate will suit the SNP to a tee.

We’re caught in a vicious circle where independence is the main casualty.

As for women and girls in Scotland God help them if they complain when a bearded bloke in a dress encroaches on their safe spaces, the police will arrest them, and they’ll be in court for a hate crime quicker than you can say Patrick Harvey.

Ruby says:
9 May, 2021 at 11:33 am
It’s really scary how easily manipulated people even the ‘highly educated’ can be.

Not really, Ruby, look at Nazi Germany.

DJ says:
9 May, 2021 at 11:36 am
Ruby says:
9 May, 2021 at 11:33 am
It’s really scary how easily manipulated people even the ‘highly educated’ can be.

Not really, Ruby, look at Nazi Germany.

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Was Nazi Germany not scary?