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.
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Geri on Looking up at the stars: “Awwe, ta! Yer mine tae X Spot on! Nobody barricades their shops & runs for cover when the Scots arrive.…” Mar 12, 10:18
Sven on Looking up at the stars: “Part of the challenge being, Willie, that such venality is almost a camouflage when it comes to blending in unnoticed…” Mar 12, 09:45
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “OK, get an even more sympathetic friend, with sock puppets, to explain it for you. Or revel, roll on your…” Mar 12, 09:36
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “Look Sunshine.. Yer on the wrong side of history. Yer on the wrong side of GLOBAL opinion across ALL current…” Mar 12, 09:34
diabloandco on Looking up at the stars: “Aye Northcode – nae Scots , nae party!(as said at some footie gathering)” Mar 12, 09:26
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Sweet, Northy. Assuming Geri is real, will that be a first for you? A real friend, that is? You shouldn’t…” Mar 12, 09:25
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “I’m Geri’s sympathetic friend – signposts scattered throughout the nations of this Earth proudly bearing the names of Scottish places…” Mar 12, 09:06
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “That’s not Colonialism, ya eejit. Tho speaking of place names. Issy USA targeted a public park called Police park. That’ll…” Mar 12, 09:05
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Dickens wrote that the real evil in the world is ignorance. I used to wonder about that. Since discovering your…” Mar 12, 08:58
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “I refer you to my previous post, Dave. Refrain from posting if you have nothing useful, informative, factual or persuasive…” Mar 12, 08:47
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Hope you had both hands above the table while your mind was wandering, YL. As for James, we know that’s…” Mar 12, 08:41
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “The signposts, Geri. They’re flat pieces of wood or metal. Labelled with the names of places. Names like Inverness, Glasgow…” Mar 12, 08:37
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Is that you, Donald? Declaring victory, bigly? You’ll be needing just one more victory today to declare Indy a done…” Mar 12, 08:31
Willie on Looking up at the stars: “Ah well as we discuss the nonentity politics of the likes of Cole Hamilton prostituting himself in any port that…” Mar 12, 08:09
Mark Beggan on Looking up at the stars: “You should have slept well. No one be reads it anyway.” Mar 12, 03:18
James on Looking up at the stars: “Ah yes, infiltration is the key….. The old colonialists are expert.” Mar 12, 02:06
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Young Lochinvar on Looking up at the stars: “J The long haired one certainly did walk a bit like the ministry of funny walks 🙂” Mar 12, 00:34
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Looking up at the stars: “PUBLIC STATEMENT BY SALVOSCOT LTD & LIBERATION SCOTLAND COMMITTEE Response to Defamatory Statements by JPTi In November 2025, the…” Mar 12, 00:33
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “Hubris. It gets the empire every time. Trump is the babbling idiot but the real evil is the unelected evil…” Mar 11, 22:17
diabloandco on Looking up at the stars: “Really Geri? Thanks for the information – it seems entirely wrong that that should be allowed.” Mar 11, 22:09
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “” It is historically indisputable…” I dispute your historically indisputable ‘stuff’. What some, the ignorant and deluded, call colonization others…” Mar 11, 21:52
Alf Baird on Looking up at the stars: “” the people of Scotland have been among the most efficient and enthusiastic colonisers” You may find of interest the…” Mar 11, 21:18
Sven on Looking up at the stars: “Hopefully addressing the problems experienced by the original RR gas turbines by installing three, greater capacity diesel generators at considerable…” Mar 11, 21:17
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “Scotland hasn’t colonised anyone. Can you point to our overseas territories where we rule over a ppl? The City of…” Mar 11, 21:03
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “Correction: that ‘other’ should read ‘others’ plural – otherwise the intended meaning is lost in the sentence which should read…” Mar 11, 20:10
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “This what bullies do when they get caught… bullies being cowards. They try to pull other, innocent parties, into their…” Mar 11, 19:59
