It’s pretty stark when you see it laid out like this.
In just four months, the SNP – because if you aggressively assert sole ownership of a political campaign, there’s nobody else you can blame when it goes south – have turned a 10-point lead for independence into a seven-point lead for the Union with the same polling company.
And while that’s pretty brutal in itself, it’s not even the real fly in the ointment.
Remember when we’d had 20-odd Yes-majority polls in a row, and all the courtiers of Queen Nicola Of Trans were telling us that it was solely down to her personal strategic genius and cunning masterplan of gently persuading soft No voters by, um, not actually taking any steps to achieve independence in case it scared them?
Hi lads. This website has, we’d be the first to admit, made some pretty strong criticisms of you fellas in the last week or two, but we’re pleased to note that you finally HAVE actually manned up and released your “minifesto” tonight.
We’ll let readers judge it for themselves, but we do have one question.
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It really is quite uncanny how similar some SNP supporters have become to the most frothing, abusive blood-and-soil Yoons of 2014. But we can live with this company:
Patrick Harvie on a radio phone-in today, refusing to say if he knows what a woman is and refusing to guarantee them safety from men in women’s single-sex spaces.
Because this is a pure embarrassment from the notional main opposition leader. Even if it was all true – and we’d be very sceptical about that until we see the workings – £4.5 billion over 14 years would be £321 million a year.
That’s a substantial amount of money, but it’s also almost exactly 1% of the Scottish Government’s budget, and no government on Earth has ever had everything it attempted work out perfectly. Sustaining 99% efficiency on spending over nearly a decade and a half is actually pretty good going.
More to the point, it’s a staggeringly audacious attack line from a Westminster MP in a party whose government wasted £12 billion on ONE project in ONE year alone – the catastrophically failed COVID test-and-trace app.
(We’d still like someone to explain to us how in the world you can possibly spend £12 billion in a few months on a mobile phone app, even if it had worked.)
Wally Jumblatt on Anything But That: “There is indeed a tide in the affairs of men, and boy did wee Nikla and honest John make sure…” Sep 1, 18:51
Mark Beggan on Anything But That: ““…On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose…” Sep 1, 18:11
Mark Beggan on Anything But That: “I don’t know. Ask professor Baird.” Sep 1, 17:52
James on Anything But That: ““..rUK still subsidizes Scotland from the Barnet Formula…” LOL.” Sep 1, 17:33
Williams on Anything But That: “Surely a whole chunk of the UK (Scotland) no longer voting in Westminster elections in a way that doesn’t benefit…” Sep 1, 17:21
J Robertson on Anything But That: “Remember when violence gainst women and girls was (rightly) a constant talking point. Now it is on the increase it…” Sep 1, 17:01
Hatey Mchateface on Anything But That: “I’m minded of what that famous black quine wrote: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken…” Sep 1, 16:04
Mark Beggan on Anything But That: “Rape and attempted rape statistics for Glasgow City centre have been removed from Police Scotland’s web page. According to Google…” Sep 1, 15:58
100%Yes on Anything But That: “The trouble we have with the membership SNP is everyone is either to frightened to speak out in the fare…” Sep 1, 15:43
100%Yes on Anything But That: “You wouldn’t dealing with Farage you’d be delivery on the mandate’s the SNP have been given since 2015 for a…” Sep 1, 15:36
Hatey Mchateface on Anything But That: “Ah, c’moan noo, x. How could Murrell keep his loot (mind there’s still around 1 million quid unaccounted for) if…” Sep 1, 15:33
Insider on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “James Che says: “We shall have to wait and see if my personal opinion on how England is evolving turns…” Sep 1, 15:25
agentx on Anything But That: ““JOHN Swinney has said he will probe whether the Scottish Legal Aid Board was right to fund a case by…” Sep 1, 15:14
James Che on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “Lorncal. True the old empire is dying and England will become a hell hole to reside in unless of course…” Sep 1, 14:52
Hatey Mchateface on Anything But That: “I heard about a story yesterday, I believe by Sartre, about a trio of progressive, lefty politicos who were sentenced…” Sep 1, 14:49
Hatey McHateface on Anything But That: “Yer maw needs to tak yer smutty picture books awa – force ye tae learn tae read. How about if…” Sep 1, 14:41
Effijy on Anything But That: “SNP policy has put a raft of weak candidates into office thinking somehow every walk of life should be represented…” Sep 1, 14:31
James Che on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “Westminster or the EU cannot convert a named Country in a 1707 treaty, into a region in the same treaty…” Sep 1, 14:28
Mark Beggan on Anything But That: “‘If Hitler invaded hell..’” Sep 1, 14:00
James on Anything But That: ““My interpretation of the consensus from the BTL comments on the last thread is that Swinney’s playing a blinder by…” Sep 1, 13:59
Mark Beggan on Anything But That: “Reforms membership is now at 12,000 and rising. Who says Reform want to do a deal? The time the election…” Sep 1, 13:51
am firinn on Anything But That: “I never thought I might be recommending Mr Churchill to Mr Swinney, for I have no time for Mr Churchill,…” Sep 1, 13:45
Spartan 117 on Anything But That: “No matter how much Honest John and the other Fabians stamp their feet, if Reform form the next UK government…” Sep 1, 13:45
James Che on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “Staying with what STU has posted in relationship to referendums, Scotlands as a Sovereign Country has every right to hold…” Sep 1, 13:37
Hatey McHateface on Anything But That: ““Swinney has now dismissed every possible route to [Indy] out of hand” Hmmm. Is that bad? My interpretation of the…” Sep 1, 13:35
Hatey McHateface on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “Not much to argue with there. As always, I query the “settled assumption” that once things start to fission, the…” Sep 1, 13:25
Morgatron on Anything But That: “Swinney is a true fascist, refuses in democracy and working with other democratically voted parties. A total arse wipe of…” Sep 1, 13:18
Hatey McHateface on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “Naw, MH. The rate per word posting on here is too good. Plus unlimited double rate over the weekend. Also,…” Sep 1, 13:13
Chas on Haven’t had a dream in a long time: “I think I have seen similar shite like this on Wings previously. Mind you, only 10,563 times. It never ends.” Sep 1, 13:05
