We thought this was overdue an update. It’s got about 16 new front pages on it, one whole new row and a handful of newly-rediscovered replacements. It really is worth taking a few minutes to peruse it properly (click on the pic to enlarge it) to get the full effect of eight wasted years of deja vu disappointment.
It’s not even The National’s fault. They’re a business, they’re simply trying to sell a few papers to a diminishing audience of endlessly gullible eejits. The real fault lies with the halfwitted SNP members who just keep on doggedly failing to learn a single lesson, and repeatedly vote to carry on doing what they know doesn’t work and never will.
As alert readers will have noticed, Wings has been perusing the SNP’s Governance And Transparency Review over the last couple of days, a document which tentatively attempts to discern just how big a mess the party’s previous leadership has left it in.
The paper has now also reached the mainstream media.
Wings already touched on that particular aspect of the party’s mismanagement back in August, but in the light of the report now formally acknowledging the problem it’s worth taking a moment to establish just how astonishingly bad it is.
The writing, we mean. Because it’s not until you see it baldly written down in black and white that it really hits you how insane it is.
The SNP has 44 MPs now, and has not managed to enter independence negotiations.
Winning 29 seats would represent a LOSS of 15, or more than a third.
And they’re about to stand up in front of voters and insist that that would somehow compel the UK government to hand over what they’ve been flatly refusing since 2016.
(It’s all pretty academic anyway, obv, as we’ll be amazed if they get double figures.)
The very last shred of credibility has left the building, readers.
Labour won far more handsomely in last night’s by-election than anyone – and we very strongly suspect that includes themselves – expected. If the swing of over 20% was to be repeated nationwide next year (which it won’t be, but we’ll get to that in a minute), the SNP would be reduced to six or seven seats, as Wings has predicted for a while.
From the abject pit of despair of 2015, when Labour lost 40 of its 41 MPs in Scotland, let’s look at how the party has powered back to recapture the hearts of voters.
Humza Yousaf didn’t turn up to the count tonight. In the end, even on a dreadfully low turnout of 37%, Labour won by 9,446 votes, with more than twice as many as the SNP.
It was a much worse defeat for the governing party than most expected. There should be only one outcome.
sarah on In Ruins: “Wow – the first link to Vivian’s btl re the USA’s choice of Scottish politicians to be invited for [“programming”…” Jan 11, 22:41
gregor on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: “Sally Bee @SallyBee644023: “CPS?????”: https://x.com/SallyBee644023/status/1878206164720091539 https://www.cps.gov.uk/ #Ouch” Jan 11, 22:39
gregor on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: “Elon Musk: “Wow”: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1878199811750379742” Jan 11, 22:33
gregor on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: “William, 3rd Earl of Wan Chai @CX252HKG: “Then you see his audience”: https://x.com/CX252HKG/status/1878192819178983447 #LabourGovernmentSexCult” Jan 11, 22:32
gregor on In Ruins: “#MakeScotlandGreatAgain2025” Jan 11, 22:25
gregor on In Ruins: “Keep proving the point, people…” Jan 11, 22:18
gregor on Safeguarding Is Not Right-Wing: “Queen Natalie @TheNorfolkLion: “I can’t believe a former MP @ivorcaplin would post these kind of comments brazenly and openly on…” Jan 11, 22:08
gregor on In Ruins: “Errol is protected by Preston Watson and his marvelous flying machines… Preston Watson… The Flying Scotsman: https://medium.com/the-dundonian/preston-watson-the-dundonian-who-became-the-flying-scotsman-b2cdfd5b69e” Jan 11, 21:53
gregor on Eyes Full Of Beams: “Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump: Jan 6, 2021 “I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No…” Jan 11, 21:33
Dan on In Ruins: “Practicing my searches for Vivian’s past posts gets plenty hits. A lot of interesting detail in this one from a…” Jan 11, 21:06
gregor on In Ruins: “I don’t need to talk about my kingdom (power) – I’m showing you, Scotland: #FreedomKing” Jan 11, 21:03
sarah on In Ruins: “With independence we wouldn’t have these people in sole control. All our systems and institutions would be opened up as…” Jan 11, 21:03
PacMan on In Ruins: “If only the Electric soup comic was still alive today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Soup” Jan 11, 21:03
sarah on In Ruins: “BAP – yes, I’m sure I remember that. As a Keynesian I find it impossible to stomach the economic line…” Jan 11, 20:58
Dan on In Ruins: “No problem, the longer this protracted stasis goes on the harder it is to recall the ever-growing list of dubious…” Jan 11, 20:51
gregor on In Ruins: “Talking Heads: Little Creatures: Road To Nowhere: “Well, we know where we’re goin’ But we don’t know where we’ve been…” Jan 11, 20:48
sarah on In Ruins: “Fair points, Dan. I had forgotten the “not voting because on maternity leave” episode.” Jan 11, 20:44
Dan on In Ruins: “Not entirely so Sarah. Aside from Freeports, with her fiscal remit she must have had some inkling around the ScotWind…” Jan 11, 20:42
Mia on Eyes Full Of Beams: “This is another quote from the lord Balmerino – Maule letters. This quote is from 31 January 2012, still in…” Jan 11, 20:37
gregor on In Ruins: “Brainwash: “Make people believe only what you want them to believe by continually telling them that it is true and…” Jan 11, 20:35
Jan Cowan on In Ruins: “NONE of our taxes should leave our country!” Jan 11, 20:25
Lorna Campbell on In Ruins: “Many politicians are career politicians with no actual intention of doing anything. That is not the worst of it. The…” Jan 11, 20:17
sarah on In Ruins: ““wee plucky countries…”? For heavens sake, I know that Mrs [I forget her married name] has a young child but…” Jan 11, 20:14
Jan Cowan on In Ruins: “Yes, Alf. You pointed that out to us some time ago. I only wish all you worthwhile, honest people would…” Jan 11, 20:09
100%Yes on In Ruins: “We’ll never stop them seeing the pension pot is more important, its just who the SNP leadership has become. So…” Jan 11, 20:05
Alf Baird on In Ruins: ““What is wrong with the Scots?” Colonialism is ‘based on psychology’, is ‘a disease of the mind’ requiring ‘careful treatment’:…” Jan 11, 20:04
Jan Cowan on In Ruins: “Mia for First Minister!” Jan 11, 19:59
Jan Cowan on In Ruins: ““Rat”. Thank you, Mia. Best description I’ve ever heard of that woman. (I can’t understand how Alex didn’t see through…” Jan 11, 19:56
