Alert readers will recall the deranged open letter released by a group of transactivists last Friday, in a nakedly transparent attempt to influence the SNP’s NEC elections that weekend which backfired on them horribly (and amusingly) when the party’s members instead kicked out three-quarters of the committee’s woke faction and replaced them with feminists, socialists and above all advocates of actually achieving independence.
If you don’t have the time to read Alyn Smith’s astonishing response to the SNP NEC election results in today’s National, we’ve edited it down to 10 seconds for you.
We must admit, the terrible people that we are, we’ve been enjoying watching today’s extended meltdown by the SNP’s woke faction about last night’s NEC election results. Because it appears their egos are so huge that they’re not even smart enough to play dignified to spoil our schadenfreudish fun. It’s been full-on public tantrums.
Ridiculously, more than eight hours after voting closed in an all-electronic election in which “counting” should have taken a maximum of one second, and at 11.30pm, the SNP have released the results of this year’s NEC elections.
There are some big stories.
Alyn Smith is OUT as Policy Development Convener, replaced by Chris Hanlon.
We had, we think it’s only fair to say, extremely low expectations of Nicola Sturgeon’s keynote speech this afternoon to the SNP’s soporific, strangled 2020 non-conference. It seems that members felt the same, because 15 seconds before the speech began only 1,166 of them were logged in to watch it.
The speech she just delivered, though, limboed under those expectations in platform shoes and a stovepipe hat without even grazing the underside of the bar.
In a post last month we referenced a ZX Spectrum computer game from 1984 called “Worse Things Happen At Sea”. Today as we watched the First Minister on the Andrew Marr Show, we were put in mind of another nautical-disaster-themed one from a great deal nearer to the end of the Speccy’s life.
When’s a Plan B not a Plan B? Well, when it’s something that could and should have been done already, and won’t be anywhere near adequate even if delivered.
Yet that seems to be what some colleagues are now arguing for. It’s welcome that their thoughts are at last turning to the possibility of the Tories saying No to the Scottish people’s democratic vote. But it’s happening dangerously slowly as the dismantling of devolution and reintegration into the UK gathers pace. Which’s why the Yes Movement needs to act now, not after a Holyrood election.
This week on Wings has been altogether more navel-gazey than we’re comfortable with, as various SNP MPs have mounted a series of all-out personal attacks on the site before the weekend’s crucial NEC elections.
So we’ll have a proper article for you a little later on today, but in the meantime it’d be remiss of us not to tidy up the last fragments of shrapnel, so we’ll direct you to the right of reply to Alyn Smith’s column that The National kindly gave us today:
(Sadly they chose to disable comments, we’d quite have enjoyed the reaction from the few remaining diehard leadership loyalists still posting there.)
Iain More on Governing For Beginners: “P.S I forgot to add – Get that fuckin Yank NAZI Boat out of the Moray Firth” Jan 15, 01:12
Charles Findlay on Learning Insanity: “I think bollocks is the only acceptable spelling. Anything else would be bollocks.” Jan 14, 22:44
Charles Findlay on Learning Insanity: “I think bollocks is the only acceptable spelling. To spell it bollox would definitely be bollocks.” Jan 14, 22:43
Watching from afar on Learning Insanity: “Should there not be commas between the adjectives? or hyphens somewhere? 😉 (Sven has already pointed out “upon which they…” Jan 14, 21:20
Kate L on Learning Insanity: ““who like all women share an abiding love of steam engines” almost made me spit out my drink. I’ll thankfully…” Jan 14, 20:59
Sven on Learning Insanity: “How very correct my old friend Northy is in suggesting that folk posting upon public Forums upon which they happen…” Jan 14, 20:20
Northcode on Learning Insanity: ““Free speech should have its limits…” – attributed to Jenny-Anne Bishop OBE by an ITV reporter. I agree. Far too…” Jan 14, 20:01
David G on Learning Insanity: “I know Wings serves varied constituencies, but I do so enjoy these more than the ones about the list vote.…” Jan 14, 19:45
Nae Need! on Learning Insanity: “What a lot of money and status is lauded on these individuals. They are afforded a respect they don’t deserve.…” Jan 14, 19:32
Aidan on Learning Insanity: “Are you seeing if you can bag yourself one last NCHI before they get rid of them Stu? I feel…” Jan 14, 19:29
Young Lochinvar on Learning Insanity: “Mod in the heid.. Why seek or expect sense from the clinically confused?” Jan 14, 19:16
Joan Edington on Learning Insanity: “Sorry to go off topic but that post reminded me of a tattoo parlour shown in a TV series I…” Jan 14, 19:05
Ian McLean on Learning Insanity: “Oddly and quite unusually he does seem to use the singular/plural of woman/women correctly. Is “bollox” an acceptable term for…” Jan 14, 18:52
Gerry Parker on Learning Insanity: “I’m glad I never bothered learning the vocabulary of this particular area of delusion.” Jan 14, 18:36
Campbell Clansman on Learning Insanity: “Question: Who voted to have our taxpayer money fund this mentally-ill nonsense? Who put him/her/it on the HMPPS Board and…” Jan 14, 18:28
Morgatron on Learning Insanity: “Phew, lots going on there. I usually just say how’s it going lad? when i encounter one.” Jan 14, 18:13
agentx on Learning Insanity: “I agree that yesterdays Scottish budget is not worth any attention!” Jan 14, 18:04
Phil Riddel on Learning Insanity: “Thank fuck I’ve retired.” Jan 14, 18:01
Simone on Learning Insanity: “I’m not reading that for fear of a migraine. So thanks for taking (another) one for the team” Jan 14, 17:52
Moley on Learning Insanity: “These people are often told to ‘bring their whole selves to work’. May I not so cordially suggest that they…” Jan 14, 17:40
Iain mhor on Learning Insanity: “I was holding it together until “Biromantics are people who really love pens” and then saw the little graphic at…” Jan 14, 17:31
Stuart MacKay on Learning Insanity: “So, the gender controversy is done and dusted. If you just make it clear your referring to people using their…” Jan 14, 17:28
A2 on Learning Insanity: “Sorry the only thing I’ve taken from this is that it’s harder to get propper Dental treatment than Gender affirming…” Jan 14, 17:27
Graeme on Learning Insanity: “Once again thanks Stu for going through that bollocks so we don’t have to. If I were you I’d book…” Jan 14, 17:09
Iain mhor on Governing For Beginners: “By all the auld gods! What an avalanche of memories there! Haha. I still have the ZX81 in the attic…” Jan 14, 17:02
duncanio on Learning Insanity: “i’VE Got A hEaDAcHe++++++++!!!!” Jan 14, 17:01
James Cheyne on Governing For Beginners: “My doorstep is in Scotland, However that does not mean that I am blind to how the Governance in Britain…” Jan 14, 16:28
Iain More on Governing For Beginners: “I have been watching that Russian oil tanker seized in the Moray Firth for the last day at least off…” Jan 14, 16:01
James Cheyne on Governing For Beginners: “Sometimes we have to see the bigger picture, but prevent ourselves from seeing so far that the distance is to…” Jan 14, 13:55
