Beyond the embarrassing clanger, though, the article is an interesting analysis of the key marginal seats in Scotland next week, which is to say nearly all of them. With anywhere between 25 and 50 being a reasonable estimate of the SNP’s possible tally, readers may wish to familiarise themselves with the latest local data.
The suspensions of Neale Hanvey and Denise Findlay were triggered by the actions of supporters of two SNP politicians who have recently been very vocal about supposed “cybernat abuse” – MEP Alyn Smith and MP Stewart McDonald, both pictured below.
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?
Chas on Step One: “Andy-Project Fear has nothing to do with my reasoning. I have set to see any meaningful, realistic projections, financial or…” Jul 13, 11:34
Captain Caveman on Step One: ““Sadly Chas you’re falling in to lazy Project Fear catastrophism which will be instantly recognisable to many pro independence campaigners…” Jul 13, 11:27
James on Step One: ““…. A dismal routine. Invariably anti-independence headlines stood out on all front pages. The BBC of course duly recycled these…” Jul 13, 11:05
Northcode on Step One: “We cannot know how many eligible indigenous Scots voted SNP in the parliamentary elections – those data are not captured.…” Jul 13, 11:03
Andy Ellis on Step One: “Sadly Chas you’re falling in to lazy Project Fear catastrophism which will be instantly recognisable to many pro independence campaigners…” Jul 13, 10:52
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Step One: “LIBERATION SCOTLAND UPDATE July 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoyyPd_7E18” Jul 13, 10:16
Chas on Step One: “Scotland will never achieve Independence until there are some honest Politicians who will tell the populace what Independence will actually…” Jul 13, 10:14
MaryB on Step One: “Meanwhile, Liberation Scotland’s update on the ongoing work at the UN, is on utube. Well worth a listen.” Jul 13, 09:05
Andy Wiltshire on Step One: “It’s infuriating that pretty much every UK newspaper and broadcaster has some kind of Scotland correspondent, and yet they have…” Jul 13, 09:03
Hatey McHateface on Step One: “Would it be fair to say that even if the SNP have “comprehensively failed the Scottish people”, the Scottish people…” Jul 13, 08:35
Hatey McHateface on Step One: “Let’s not get carried away before we’ve checked his religion.” Jul 13, 08:11
Hatey McHateface on Step One: “Personalised attacks on everybody is the norm. You only really notice it when it’s somebody you personally support. Looking at…” Jul 13, 08:04
Hatey McHateface on It just takes a beat: “In no particular order: Naw. My particular hatred is reserved for the people who saddled Scotland with the Hate Crimes…” Jul 13, 07:51
Saffron Robe on Step One: “Very well said, Stuart. The SNP’s existence now depends on failing to deliver independence; for them, failure is success -…” Jul 13, 00:42
Mark Beggan on Step One: “Did you see those two goals by Bellingham. If only Scotland had players of this calibre.” Jul 13, 00:22
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Step One: “Dan Vevers writes: « [Ian] Dommett said: “Between 2004 and 2012. Murrell was my best client. […] Dommett added he…” Jul 12, 23:10
Northcode on Step One: “‘Oh, did it, aye?’ Northcode 22:58” Jul 12, 22:59
Northcode on It just takes a beat: ““It’s not as if you’ve got anything else to offer…” Do you even hear yourself… you, the most verbose bore…” Jul 12, 22:57
Mark Beggan on Step One: “‘The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more.’ Romans 5:20.” Jul 12, 22:14
Hatey McHateface on It just takes a beat: “Good one, Northy, you get back into your comfort zone. Cursing and swearing for Scotland hasn’t got us Indy yet,…” Jul 12, 22:09
agentx on Step One: ““An insider has now claimed that Murrell “called the shots” at Yes Scotland. It comes amid a police probe into…” Jul 12, 21:34
Northcode on It just takes a beat: ““…But I’m being unkind…” This is what happens when a Scot tries being fair to the English… the cunts (although…” Jul 12, 21:32
Hatey McHateface on Step One: ““He and his party will not mourn the loss of Scotland when the chips are down” That’s odd, Lorncal. He…” Jul 12, 21:24
Lorncal on Step One: “Yes, Turabdin, and now Yes Scotland is under scrutiny, just in case we were to rally behind it and Liberation…” Jul 12, 21:08
Steve A on It just takes a beat: “Hopefully the new Hillsborough Law will (in future) force the polish to take a more honest role in this affair.…” Jul 12, 21:05
Hatey McHateface on It just takes a beat: ““my beef is with the English state, not ordinary English folk” How odd. So the England team doesn’t represent the…” Jul 12, 20:06
Alastair on Step One: “Still no sign of their 2025 Accounts that were due to be submitted to the Electoral Commission by 7th July” Jul 12, 19:59
sam on Step One: “Polis still investigating the missing cash.” Jul 12, 19:26
sam on It just takes a beat: “Mike Danson https://pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/publications/towards-and-industrial-policy-for-scotland-a-discussion-of-princi/ Gerry McCartney https://vhscotland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Gerry-McCartney-University-of-Glasgow.pdf Mariana Mazzucato, economist Andrea Bradley, education” Jul 12, 19:22
TURABDIN on Step One: “it was sustained civil disobedience and non cooperation that hastened the end of british rule in india not the hot…” Jul 12, 19:19
