There can surely be no credible disputing that the SNP leadership election – and therefore that of Scotland’s next First Minister – is, to put it very mildly, under a cloud.
As things stand, whoever wins will be forever tainted by the process – easy meat for the Unionist opposition in the Holyrood chamber and the media and a potential legal challenge could cause untold further damage to the party.
With six days still left for voting, the case for a reballot – an administratively fairly trivial task in an election being conducted almost entirely online – is now unanswerable, and needn’t even involve a delay.
The SNP having a fondness for lying about their membership wouldn’t have come as quite such a shock to the Scottish press if they paid a little more attention to this website. Because we were pointing it out two and a half years ago.
It was in October 2020 that we told you how the SNP’s 2019 accounts revealed the party’s true membership figures weren’t the claimed 126,000 but more like 87,000.
You might think that Scottish political journalists would all be in a shark-like frenzy of excitement at the events of the last few days. But not over on The Guardian.
Apparently it’s all a bit too much for the delicate wee flowers.
We’ve just been leaked this footage, apparently taken by an alert traveller, of Nicola Sturgeon at Edinburgh Airport, reacting badly to receiving news that Peter Murrell has been “unavoidably detained” and won’t be making their rendezvous to Rio.
Hats off to the SNP. Every time we think that the party’s leadership election can’t get any more absurdly farcical, they pull something extra-mad out of the bag.
After this happened yesterday, it suddenly become “known” across the Scottish media that the SNP NEC was going to hold an extraordinary meeting in order to authorise the release of the membership figures after all three candidates demanded them.
Some of the country’s most senior hacks, including BBC Scotland’s Political Editor and the editor of the Daily Record, sombrely informed their readers of the development.
robertkknight on Looking up at the stars: “British not Scottish that one… Yoo-kaye Adams, formerly of the Brit-Nat Brainwashing Channel. She’ll be on GB News next, with…” Mar 13, 09:10
factchecker on Looking up at the stars: “A perfectly rational response. NC is telling us that it is entirely right to ignore the sovereign wishes of the…” Mar 13, 08:22
100%Yes on Looking up at the stars: “She’ll still put BBC before nationality.” Mar 13, 07:48
Young Lochinvar on Looking up at the stars: “Re. My previous inexcusably intemperate post. May I obsequiously and regretfully add the correction that references to “Brown people” meant…” Mar 13, 02:18
Young Lochinvar on Looking up at the stars: “Yup MB It’s just so much more civilised that the “chaps” just blow up the camel jockeys, mullahs and stupid…” Mar 13, 01:59
Cynicus on Looking up at the stars: “Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh says: 12 March, 2026 at 7:26 pm “Peers backed the change by 227 votes to 221” ===== Well…” Mar 13, 01:31
Mark Beggan on Looking up at the stars: “Right Hatey Bin Hateful Stop invading countries right now and Give that stuff back. Geri as your a self confessed…” Mar 13, 00:31
Iain More on Looking up at the stars: “Now i hear that the toxic Kaye Adams was removed from the BBC following alleged misconduct complaint against her. Several…” Mar 13, 00:23
Young Lochinvar on Looking up at the stars: “HMcH Yawn.. An oath made under duress of unemployment in an area devastated by HMs psychotic government is no oath…” Mar 12, 23:26
robertkknight on Looking up at the stars: “Taxi for Swinney with G4S on the side would be nice…” Mar 12, 22:27
Iain More on Looking up at the stars: “So the SNP SG continues to drag its heels over releasing the dirt on MI6 Agent Sturgeon. Taxi for Swinney…” Mar 12, 22:24
Geri on Looking up at the stars: ““People are going to lose $trillions in wealth” Says the American on the telly. “Trump needs to get on the…” Mar 12, 22:10
Geri on Looking up at the stars: “Stop talking utter shite. It’s Westerners who are squatting all over the ME & Asia Pacific. Military bases everywhere &…” Mar 12, 21:30
Geri on Looking up at the stars: ““What can take it’s place. Well my answer to that is nothing will take it’s place. ” A vacuum will…” Mar 12, 21:14
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: “James, you are one of those ‘fortunate’ Scots who sees the truth of Scotland’s relationship with England and has broken…” Mar 12, 21:11
Northcode on Looking up at the stars: ““…we don’t even have our own academics of anti-colonialism.” There’s a Scottish academic who goes by the name of Professor…” Mar 12, 21:05
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “One interesting side effect of the opening of World War 3’s third offensive front is seeing all those maps of…” Mar 12, 20:54
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Bet Wilson is white and thus an easy target for two-tier justice.” Mar 12, 20:42
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Irony of ironies, Alf. We’re so colonised, we don’t even have our own academics of anti-colonialism. We have to import…” Mar 12, 20:37
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Looks like James has the sock puppets. But considering what he’s been doing in them, best await an offer from…” Mar 12, 20:25
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Dodged the questions again, Alf. Entirely expected, but don’t kid yourself the alert readers don’t notice.” Mar 12, 20:20
agentx on Looking up at the stars: ““A mother-of-10 who kept a vulnerable woman captive as a slave for 25 years has been jailed for 13 years.…” Mar 12, 20:20
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Fact has it that you’re a man whose word can’t be trusted. Someone who swears an oath of fealty. Then…” Mar 12, 20:13
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: “Whatever we Scots have achieved, Northy, it’s fuck all to do with you. You’re a Pict. An untermensch. We Scots…” Mar 12, 20:03
Hatey McHateface on Looking up at the stars: ““We’ve only had one vote and we voted yes” Don’t you just hate it when commoners adopt the royal we?…” Mar 12, 19:59
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Looking up at the stars: “PEERS VOTE TO GO BEYOND GOVT’S PLEDGE TO END NON-CRIME HATE INCIDENTS The House of Lords has voted to strengthen…” Mar 12, 19:26
James Che on Looking up at the stars: “Northcode, Three hundred years and more of conditioning has to have had an effect on the people of Scotland, Goodness…” Mar 12, 19:06
Sven on Looking up at the stars: “Diabloandco @ 15.55. He did indeed, D & Co, in the (very) late 1700s. His statue stands outside the establishment,…” Mar 12, 19:00
James Che on Looking up at the stars: “Factchecker, You are right of course, the Scottish people have to attain the will to wake up first, prior to…” Mar 12, 18:48
