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.
lothianlad on Only An Excuse: “Correct Stu !! Glasgow centric Scottish establishment organisations cannot be held to account. in this day and age, Anything seems…” May 22, 15:18
Insider on Only An Excuse: “Aye Alf ! I should have guessed… Poor decisions by Scottish football referees are caused by “colonialism” ! Perhaps it’s…” May 22, 15:17
Captain Caveman on The Queer Parliament: ““Never apologise! Never give up! Never surrender! Yeah, I’m in one of those moods theday… it will pass – hopefully…” May 22, 14:37
Captain Caveman on The Queer Parliament: ““In other news, allegedly R can now remote control U drones & reverse them back to whence they came &…” May 22, 14:30
Col on Only An Excuse: “Interesting to note that Gordon Smith reckons teams should get points deducted for pitch invasions by their supporters. Seems reasonable,…” May 22, 14:27
Alf Baird on The Queer Parliament: ““the only Scottish legal academics to do so” ? Here is an alternative learned perspective on Scotland’s colonial reality, presented…” May 22, 13:59
BLMac on Only An Excuse: “If there’s a fan invasion, the game should become a win for the other team.” May 22, 13:41
Luigi on Only An Excuse: “The SFA have always been a bunch of cowards, afraid to stand up to the Old Firm. One reason (not…” May 22, 13:16
TURABDIN on Only An Excuse: “ENGLAND is making mincemeat of Scotland, the first element to go in the mincer Scotland’s collective balls. Is mr Swinney…” May 22, 12:59
Willie on Only An Excuse: “Its unlikely in the extreme that a resumption of tbe match for a last minute would have changed the result.…” May 22, 12:59
Northcode on The Queer Parliament: “Never apologise! Never give up! Never surrender! Yeah, I’m in one of those moods theday… it will pass – hopefully…” May 22, 12:30
Alf Baird on Only An Excuse: “A colonial Establishment = ‘legalized lawlessness’ (Elkins): Repressive when challenged; well-practiced cover-ups; never held accountable for its actions/mistakes. Expect Hearts…” May 22, 12:23
Alf Baird on The Queer Parliament: ““The *no way out* claim is defeatist bullshit” Indeed, and it is clearly not only “the colonizer (who) maintains that…” May 22, 12:03
Williams on Only An Excuse: “Absolute disgrace and travesty, etc. Both Celtic & Hearts need to be relegated immediately (especially Hearts – for something they’re…” May 22, 12:01
Geri on The Queer Parliament: “Okeydoke, my mistake. There used to be poster called Lorna. I assumed you were the same one. My bad..” May 22, 11:56
Lorncal on The Queer Parliament: “James Che: your insults are just silly and I won’t rise to them. Just because Westminster says or does something…” May 22, 11:54
Northcode on The Queer Parliament: “I repeat (and in bold, anaw)… independence first, then everything else! We Scots who seek our liberation from oppression should…” May 22, 11:49
Lorncal on The Queer Parliament: “I use Lorncal, Geri, as you use Geri. Shall I call you something else? I suggest that you and others…” May 22, 11:39
Northcode on The Queer Parliament: ““If Scotland’s malady has been mis-diagnosed, and we’re not suffering from colonisation, does that mean you’re prescribing the wrong remedy?…” May 22, 11:14
Geri on The Queer Parliament: “Shiteface, Can’t. It’s running out remember? The pishy UK cannot refine it & it lacks the infrastructure to do so.…” May 22, 11:00
Jamie on The Land Of No Laws: “Considering Scotland only managed to remain independent due to international alliances most prominently with France in the auld alliance, I…” May 22, 10:58
Geri on The Queer Parliament: “So the Scottish parliament never signed off on the union if it closed shop? It also wasn’t within their remit…” May 22, 10:27
Geri on The Queer Parliament: “They were on the phone begging them for aviation fuel too. R told them to GTF. Imagine having the audacity…” May 22, 09:56
James Che on The Queer Parliament: “Lornicl, The political parliamentary treaty of union between Scotland and England does not exist when both Countries cancelled and ceased…” May 22, 09:45
James Che on The Queer Parliament: “history lessons and exam results must have all held C’s and D’s.and fails for Lornical. But due to saying they…” May 22, 09:25
David on Only An Excuse: “I think we can agree there was at least a minute to go. It is unlikely Hearts would have scored…” May 22, 09:20
Marie Clark on Off-topic: “Thanks for the wee song and your good wishes Tinto. It’s nice to see Sarah and Dan still around here.…” May 22, 09:11
Rev. Stuart Campbell on Only An Excuse: “I’ve actually watched the last eight minutes back now, and in fairness to the ref he deals with the bookings…” May 22, 08:39
Bilbo on Only An Excuse: “I see that Swinney has dropped the role of Woman’s health minister: https://archive.ph/qc5CF The usual hypocritical carpings from the other…” May 22, 07:47
M.E. on Only An Excuse: “This is just the unlockable m-m-m-m-multiball mode!” May 22, 07:46
