Opinium have stood out in recent months as consistently the most Labour-friendly polling firm, continuing to show Keir Starmer's party in the lead with close to 30% of the vote - until now. This weekend's poll shows Labour slumping to a post-election low of 26%, allowing Reform to move into joint first place for the first time in an Opinium poll since the party's 2021 rebrand. Curiously, Opinium was one of two firms (the other was YouGov) that put Reform in the outright lead in mid-2019 when they were still called the Brexit Party.
GB-wide voting intentions (Opinium, 19th-21st March 2025):
Reform UK 26% (-1)
Labour 26% (-2)
Conservatives 21% (+1)
Liberal Democrats 13% (+1)
Greens 8% (-)
SNP 3% (-)
Plaid Cymru 1% (-)
If something has changed recently, the overwhelming likelihood is that it's Liz Kendall's House of Horrors coming back to haunt Labour. The idea that Labour sources were punting only a few weeks ago that Starmer's strutting around on the international stage was going to produce a Falklands-style effect and lead to electoral recovery now looks like an absolute fantasy. The Oval Office episode probably did produce a modest and temporary Labour boost, but it's since been more than offset by the Kendall factor. Perhaps Starmer should have heeded the wisdom of his own party members and not appointed "Mrs 4%" to such a key Cabinet role.
A little caveat, though - a Techne poll was conducted at around the same time as the Opinium poll and did not show any new setback for Labour. However, we've now had three polls since the Kendall announcement, and two of them have shown a Labour slump.
Can we safely assume that the whole Rupert Lowe situation hasn't had any impact on Reforms polling?
ReplyDeleteIf there was any effect at all, it was minimal.
DeleteThe only Reform politician that most people recognise
Deleteis Farage. The bust up with Lowe won't damage them in the slightest.
Reform Mächt Schottland Frei, Jawöhl Herr Reverend Kommandant!
ReplyDeleteNo need for the two Umlauts there.
DeleteZzzzzzzzzzz
DeleteZ =zombie.
DeletePresident Jamez Macht Frei.
DeleteSalute President Jamez!
Starmer, Kendall and Reeves are doing all the heavy lifting for Reform 'dan saf' and the pending Emergency Budget will help them even more.
ReplyDeleteAll Farage needs to do is keep his big Racist Gub shut...............
Rather hurtful to miss privatisation enthusiast Wes Streeting out of the list of right wing zealots in the London government 😢. Any advance of four?
DeleteGood point.
DeleteStreeting also included.
Streeting is sinister. He needs watched. SNP have a real opportunity here. I am not seeing the urgency that should be there considering how close Holyrood 2026 is.
DeleteDame Jackie and Wes have a lot in common.
DeleteI didn't watch the first and we won, so I didn't watch this leg just in case and we lost, so it's not my fault.
ReplyDeleteIt's another case of snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, and it's some sort of psychology training is needed, motivational speakers or something like that. It does work, it makes you feel good about yourself. We can will, we will win.
Football is another thing you don't understand
DeleteGet back to WGD and its incredibly shrinking doughnut where you slunk in from with your tail between your wee legs. Silly billy.
DeleteIFS could deliver motivational speeches to the the team before each game? Would that work?
DeleteAnon at 12.33. That’s an astonishingly bizarre post, and you call others silly?
DeleteAnon 12.33 How's the weather in Somerset ?
DeleteCould I just gently say to the anonymous commenter I've deleted, it's one thing to accuse bloggers of "grifting" when they crowdfund, but to make the same complaint about them writing for newspapers is getting into the realms of the absurd. Have you never heard of the well-known, long-established concept of freelance work in return for payment? I'm beginning to think I could work down a coal mine and you'd still be shouting "GRIFTER!" at me.
ReplyDeleteNo skin off my nose, though - at this point the only person you're making look foolish is yourself.
From your (deleted) reply, it appears that your answer to my question is: yes, you've literally never heard of the concept of freelance work in return for payment. Fair enough. The mind boggles, but fair enough.
DeleteI suspect it’s the same anon who has been developing a new narrative about N S now that she has been vindicated. She still let us all down in my opinion, but the let downs down was political.
Delete" she has been vindicated " is that right. In your world the leader of a party that has a husband who was Chief Exec of the party is being prosecuted for embezzlement and that is being vindicated is it!!!!!!
DeleteSturgeon was the leader it was her responsibility to ensure the Chief Exec ( never mind her husband ) was carrying out his duties to acceptable standards of financial probity.
Where was she when Murrell was telling his lies about the membership numbers?
Where was she when he refused to let the professional and elected Treasurer look at the books?
Where was she when the elected party audit members wanted to look at the books and he refused?
Where was she when these people resigned in protest?
Where was she when the money went missing?
Where was she when Murrell bizarrely "loaned " the SNP about £95k and broke the Electoral Commission rules by not informing them of this? Murrell left it 18 months before telling them.
Where was she when the luxury £100k jag turned up on the driveway?
Where was she when she saw a luxury £100k motorhome ( not a campervan as anon numpties keep saying) sitting on her 94 year old mother in law's driveway for years unused?
Sturgeon is the leader who assured the SNP NEC that all was well with the accounts. So where was she when the SNP's long standing external auditors declared they no longer wanted to be associated with the SNP?
A party leader posted missing. A party leader who if it was any other organisation would have been sacked for gross misconduct.
But here we have a numpty posting on SGP saying she was vindicated.
We even have a blogger ( Kavanagh wanting her back ). Question for Kavanagh. If Sturgeon was SNP leader again would it be fine with you if she appointed her new husband/ partner as Chief Exec ?
Angry as ever I see. You told us all that she had carried out criminal acts. Why did you say that? Intensive police investigation and Crown Office consideration of the results of that police investigation resulted in the conclusion that she did not. Are you right and they are wrong.? Straight forward questions. Can you give straight forward answers? Relieved that you didn’t do anything silly after last weeks very public humiliation for you and you supporters.
Delete10.45am I see you did not address any of the points made in the post because you know it is the truth. The only humiliation going down is people like you clinging on to the hope that the SNP leadership will ever do anything about independence.
DeleteHe's back! Scotland is saved !
DeleteLomax do you not realise you are an idiot.
DeleteAnon at 10.45am says "angry as ever." Clearly you are quite happy that nothing is happening on Scottish independence. What does that make you ?
DeleteAnon at 11.36. His rambling post is irrelevant to me. He has been asked two straightforward questions. He is not willing to answer them. You answer them.
DeleteWhat anon are you anon? Save the date 19/10/23. No ifs no buts.
DeleteAnons don't answer my questions. Kavanagh disnae answer them either. David Francis disnae answer my questions either he just runs away.
Anon get over yourself. On what basis does a random anon have the right to demand anything on SGP.
Onywise back to the topic. I think Labour at the top suffer from the same ivory tower echo chamber syndrome that other parties like the SNP suffer from. A leader of influencer says "blah blah blah", everyone claps like seals at the circus, and everyone chants in perfect unison "blah blah blah". Someone outside says "But blah blah is supposed to actually have some words" and then they boo and shout and scream and throw their toys and the interloper out and go back to "blah blah blah".
ReplyDeleteThe general public are far more intelligent than these clapping seals and are disgusted. Anyone genuine is perhaps preferable - even Reformation UK!
Where's Olly McCromwell when you need him?
That's probably been one of the most harmful things to happen to our movement: In some people's eyes being a pro-indy Party gave the SNP a get out of jail free card on virtually every other issue.
DeleteIf you're critical of a policy or the direction they're taking you're simply accused of helping out the unionists and told that we need to put up with any shit as we can always vote the SNP out after independence... and where has that mentality gotten us?
One of the key objectives Alex Salmond employed to win over support was that we needed to have competence in Government. Demonstrate that we could use the powers of Devolution effectively so that Independence is seen as the next logical step. But in recent years the rhetoric has seemed to be: If we don't mention any incompetence the electorate won't notice it... which is idiotic.
I agree with what you are saying. J S is I think doing something about the competence issue, but he lacks urgency on promoting Indy and its benefits.
Delete" he lacks urgency " - what an understatement. Swinney will retire on his nice FM pension and do nothing about independence. Exactly the same as his pals Sturgeon and Yousaf.
DeleteOh you are back. Recovered from the shock and humiliation? Still the same nonsense I see. Oh well, there is something to be said for continuity.
DeleteThe return of IFS has coincided with a noticeable drop in the number of Anon posts which sounded remarkably like IFS. Mmmmmmh?
DeleteIfs lives in your head rent free.
DeleteIFS is brain ceil-free
DeleteAnon at 11.37. Are you suggesting we should just ignore him and allow him to post lies and disinformation without challenge? Why on earth would you propose that?
Delete"The return of IFS has coincided with a noticeable drop in the number of Anon post"
DeleteIronically posted by an Anon,
Anon at 11.55am - you actually think you challenge me. You post lies and abuse. I said Sturgeon would not deliver Indyref2 on SGP back in 2020. I was challenged then and I was proved right. You on the other hand just post stuff like he is " brain cell free".
DeleteAnon at 12.08. Nothing ironic about it, unless you are stupid and don’t understand what I am saying.
DeleteHi IFS. I have asked you a couple of direct questions. You seem to be avoiding answering them. Give it a go. I promise I’ll go easy on you.
DeleteAnon at 12.25 pm which anon are you? Thats the problem with posting as anon. Are you the nutter or the troll that contributes nothing but abuse. Is your promise a Nicola type of promise? You know, no promise at all. Is it one of the no ifs no buts type of promises. Did you get that tattoo I recommended for anons like you. Remember the one that reminds you you are a simple mug. Remember remember 19/10/23. That would be a useful tattoo to remind you.
DeleteFascism is something we have like 1930s Germany walked into.
ReplyDeleteThe SNP were hollowed out and turned from a once democratic party. They no longer do what the name on the side of the tin suggests. Something caused that.
The state through the pursuance of Alex Salmond, Craig Murray. Manny Singh, Mark Hirst showed itself to be utterly ruthless in using the arms of the state to viciously suppress political targets.
And then of course the media.
Declining living standards,, all seeing state surveillance, and now Mien Stsrmer's Arbeit Macht Frei policy
Late night booze up?
DeleteNo mention of N S and C B in your list of political targets. Why is that?
DeleteI see the same useless, impotent Albaist/Wingnut Dregs are - as usual - attempting to turn a thread about Labour/Reform into yet another one of their SNP BAAAAD diatribes.
ReplyDeleteStill - their wee prams now have NO rattles left to chuck 😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡
Kleenex profits up by 100000000000000%
😁😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👍👍
The only conclusion we can reach from this is that they actually are too stupid to realise what completely gullible useful fools they are. The unionists love them.
Delete10.38pm good to read someone saying what I was thinking. These SNP loyalists are “ gullible useful fools”. “ The unionists love them”.
DeleteHere we have a classic Scottish Skier SNP propagandist line.
ReplyDeleteSkier says:- As for the coming case against one individual, it will have no political implications for the SNP, only maybe so if that individual is also cleared."
So poor old Peter Murrell Chief Exec of the SNP for over 20 years is now relegated to being addressed as " one individual ". The same person the WGD numpties used to refer to as Peter. Thrown under the bus by Sturgeon and now Scottish Skier and the WGD site.
What Skier is saying here is that if Murrell is found guilty then he is just some nomark with no connection to the SNP but if he is found innocent then that will be a positive boost to the SNP. Incredibly some WGD numpties will believe this blatant SNP propagandist spin.
Murrell is effectively a "lone gunman" (acting alone and not as part of any wider conspiracy)
Delete- we are expected to believe when Nikki asked to look at the accounts on his laptop he just forbade her. But there was only one trouser wearer (dungaree wearer) in that "relationship" and it wasn't him.
The official account requires a lot of magical thinking.
Good to see you survived your recent humiliation. Bad to see you back with the same level of nonsense. Take another wee break. Cue wee helpers.
DeleteSNP Baaaders seem to love talking about conspiracies. Somewhat ironic?
DeleteIfs were you one of the police complainers?
DeleteYou do have to laugh at IFS, it doesn't matte what the truth is or what happens Salmond good Sturgeon baad, Salmond innocent Sturgeon guilty
DeleteIFS is a pathetic tiny wee woman hating troll
What's the matter IFS did Sturgeon not love you? diddums
Doubt it but what he does know he makes up. Still it does show he is more interested in his detest of Nicola Sturgeon, the snp and the rest over independence. Living in East Renfrewshire goves his game away.
DeleteAnon 10.56 IFS's buddy Campbell was one of the complainers
DeleteYou do have to laugh at all these brainless wonders. Living in East Renfrewshire makes you anti independence. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Kirsten Oswald SNP was elected twice in East Renfrewshire. Hey, never mind dumb trolls never let facts get in the way of their trolling. Where do you live troll? Is everybody there an independence supporter ?
DeleteThen we have another brainless wonder saying I am Campbell's buddy. Is the same anon who said I was Campbell or Campbell kicked me off his blog. The numpties cannae address the points I make so they make up lies that contradict their previous lies.
Oswald was and is anti independence just like her pal Sturgeon.
DeleteI see the troll is not happy to reveal where he lives. Ask THEM a question and they run away.
DeleteI don’t always agree with what Ifs posts, but he’s spot on re Sturgeon.
ReplyDeleteQuite incredible how the likes of David Francis and others defend her to the hilt , and indeed lavish her with praise at times!
What the hell is up with these people?
Your opinion is fogged by your anti Nicola Sturgeon stance on all issues. Just listened to a chap from England praising her leadership during covid. Either way Nicola has moved on with her life and maybe some of the anti NS would do well to follow her.
ReplyDelete“Praising her leadership during Covid” !!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteWhat planet are you on ????
Sturgeon was an embarrassment to Scotland during Covid.
Delete3rd planet from the Sun. Listen to it on the radio but maybe radio waves have a difficult in getting through a concrete skull?
DeleteAnon Tory 1106- get the door!
DeleteThe mr / Mrs/ them angry brigade are out their bed this morning. SNP are the number 1 party in Scotland
DeleteNew material? What about your Nicola is a criminal narrative? How is that going?
Delete"Either way Nicola has moved on with her life and maybe some of the anti NS would do well to follow her."
DeleteSeems to have moved on from her job as an MSP as well, despite still being one for another year and being paid to represent her constituents in Parliament. But I'm sure they're happy that she's focusing on her memoirs rather than on their concerns.
Senior politicians all around the world respected and liked Nicola Sturgeon, only the British hated her, they never feared Alex Salmond a tenth of what they feared Sturgeon
ReplyDeleteThat should tell people something about IFS and the Wingsy supporters
Heard the radio broadcast- in fairness the guy did compare her abilities to that of Johnson -the guy that had parties during covid with his mates.
ReplyDeleteThe majority of internet chatter is desperate to have Sturgeon back, Scotland's women still love her and they're the voters
ReplyDelete"Scotland's women still love her and they're the voters"
DeleteEspecially the ones who love having men in their private spaces.
Same right wing mysogenist.
Delete11.26am. Same arsehole who cannot spell.
DeleteAnd I have a bridge to sell you Jim lad.
DeleteAye and the English health minister snogged his secretary, Dame Mone sold face masks supported by Gove - who likes dancing. Sunak writing off billions in bad debts from the Tory pals. Then we had Truss!!
ReplyDeleteIFS has been asked a couple of straight forward questions. I’ll repeat them. You said that N S was a criminal and referenced the £600,000. Why did you say that? After intensive police investigation and lengthy consideration by Crown Office, they conclude that she has done nothing criminal. Are you right and they are wrong? Straight forward questions. Give straight forward answers.
ReplyDeleteI think IFS believes he/she has the right to hang folk ( metaphorically speaking) he doesn’t like. Claims to support independence.
DeleteAnon at 11.22am incredible you can think at all. Does it hurt.
DeleteSo no answers IFS? Speaks volumes.
DeleteAnon nutter at 11.17am first you answer all my questions you have avoided. As a starter for my reply I will point out your question is faulty ( a lie really). You say " she has done nothing criminal " wrong nobody said that. They said she was not being prosecuted.
DeleteYour turn nutter. Answers to all my questions I have put to you. Using your approach I'll give you till 9.00pm tonight. Don't dilly dally now.
The ignorant nasty troll at 11.17am has done a runner as usual.
DeleteTruss believes in Trump and believes she was misunderstood when she crashed the economy. Something now being repeated by labour who are ensuring the poor get poorer and the rich get wealthier.
ReplyDeletePertinent to remember some completely impartial, international assessments of Nicola Sturgeon's tenure as First Minister, both during the pandemic -
ReplyDelete"SCOTLAND’S First Minister is one a small number of world leaders who has managed to “secure public trust” during the coronavirus crisis, scientists have said."
"Nicola Sturgeon is fifth-most eloquent leader in world, say experts.
Leadership experts praise Scotland's first minister – but criticise Boris Johnson for ‘waffling’ and ‘leaving people confused’"
Embarrassing stuff from Francis.
DeleteA Sturgeon worshipper and an absolute 🤡 of a man!
He is presenting facts. These are verifiable opinions expressed about N S. In that context what point are you trying to make?!
DeleteLooking at Electoral Calculus, it would seem there is a significant danger of Reform becoming the largest party and if the Tories were to consider a coalition Farage could be PM. This is a shocking state of affairs. Reform have few coherent policies but it is clear it would be not dissimilar to Trump's anti immigrant, pro Putin, devil take the hindmost market with the NHS gutted by private companies. It is the same authoritarian anti-politics that is sweeping so many countries. It doesn't bode well yet England seems to be sleep walking into this (at this stage Reform do not appear to be slated to win any Scottish seats).
ReplyDeleteWhile arguably a reactionary right wing government is an opportunity for independence supporters in practice it might just be a reactionary right wing government that rides rough shod over democratic principles and jails pro independence activists Spanish style. I'm pessimistic about the direction the UK and world is taking.
Whether Murrell is innocent or guilty the case is a sideshow by comparison to what people are facing with austerity cuts and political turmoil. I doubt it will be much of a counter for Sarwar to use in defending his ill considered "Read my lips". A phrase that bit George Bush on the behind too.
Agree. Independence on the ballot paper next year.
ReplyDeleteEvidence given to the Covid Inquiry in 2024, by the UK Chief Statistician Sir Iain Diamond -
ReplyDelete"Age-standardised Mortality Rates are a better measure of mortality than numbers of deaths, as they account for the population size and age structure and provide more reliable comparisons between groups or over time.
“When considering the outcome of the pandemic across the four nations, Sir Iain Diamond detailed that England had the highest Age-standardised Evidence given to Covid Inquiry in 2024, by UK Chief StatisticianMortality Rates for deaths involving COVID-19 of the four nations, 145.0 per 100,000 people followed by Wales (144.6), Northern Ireland (130.7) and Scotland (124.9), between March 2020 and February 2022"
Under Leadership of Nicola Surgeon, Scotland had the LOWEST Covid Mortality in the UK.
Don't mention WhatsApp messages from during the pandemic though or the assurance Nicola Sturgeon gave to Channel 4 News in August 2021 that she would provide all relevant communications to the Scottish Covid Inquiry, which is being held separately from the UK-wide inquiry... but when the time came all messages had been deleted.
DeleteIt was utterly disgraceful the way Sturgeon attempted to make political gain , on a daily basis, during Covid.
DeleteShameful!
She also managed to find time during those Covid Briefings to attack Alex Salmond, undermine his credibility and imply that his version of events was self-serving and harmful (when she could have just said questions surrounding the Salmond Trial weren't relevant to Covid).
DeleteSaving lives. What a bitch. Ah but, ah but, what’s app messages blah blah. You missed out the bit where she pointed out that Scotland didn’t govern through what’s app. Too many security risks. Your beloved England on the other hand?
Delete"You missed out the bit where she pointed out that Scotland didn’t govern through what’s app"
DeleteThat would be a good argument to make except that we know that some recipients of her messages (to civil servants and advisers) weren't deleted so partial and fragmented conversations were submitted to the Inquiry in early 2024. Some messages revealed concerns over optics, polling, and political fallout, which reinforced criticism that some Covid briefings may have been politicised.
The Scottish Covid Inquiry also revealed that no official Scottish Government policy mandated automatic deletion at the time. It criticised what appeared to be a “culture of deletion”, with officials routinely wiping informal chats despite knowing an Inquiry was likely.
All after the event, with your comment having the benefit of hindsight. No other politician has ever been subjected to the protracted inquisition N S has had to endure, whether it be over Covid, Branchform, the A S saga, or the daily hate fest known as the BBC. At the end of it? I am the first to criticise N S for the last three or so years of her leadership. Competence levels plummeted and mistakes were made, all contributing to last years disastrous G E results. But I am not interested in posts that are based on hatred of N S rather than valid criticism of the failures of the S G over the past three or so years.
Delete"All after the event, with your comment having the benefit of hindsight."
DeleteExcept she assured reporters during Covid briefings that all information would be retained and handed over to a future inquiry?
Haven’t you missed out the word relevant? The problem is partly that you and the other SNP Baaaders live in a wee bubble, with no experience or understanding of the pressures and complexity of government.
DeleteWhy is an anon from England spending so much time on here?
DeleteLast two comments are sounding a lot like excuses & deflection.
DeleteI see the anon trolls are back failing to adress any points I make in my posts but just post abuse and lies. Same old same old. The SNP do nothing about independence, make donations disappear and these numpties blame me. No wonder we are not independent.
ReplyDeleteSturgeon, Swinney, Yousaf, Blackford they saw all these numpties worshipping at the alter of Sturgeon at the Hydro and realised they could get away with anything.
Sturgeon promised Indyref2 time after time. Her gold standard turned out be fake. She then strung them along longer with her promise of a de facto referendum then she walked away passing the baton on to her pals Youssf and Swinney to make sure she wisnae prosecuted. Still they believe in her. Swinney isnae even bothering to promise to do anything on independence for the next 6 years but still they worship Sturgeon. No wonder we are not independent. MI5 must be pissing themselves laughing at you numpties.
Clearly these fools have not got the tatoo "19/10/23" as I recommended.
The fools think I must answer their questions built on lies but they get a free pass at answering questions I put to them. All they demonstrate is how foolish people can be.
Indeed Ifs.
DeleteDescribing these people who continue to praise Sturgeon as fools and numpties is no exaggeration. Many would actually use stronger language!
Two easy questions IFS. Your bluff and bluster doesn’t cut it. Answer the two questions.
DeleteHi IFS. Nice to see one of your wee helpers jumping in. Did he help you through your crisis last week?
DeleteHardly worth answering your rubbish anon trolls - I had no crisis - all made up by yourself - most people would say that makes you a liar.
Delete12.40 pm - your post does not ask one question never mind two.
You trolls need to get that tattoo 19/10/23. Or you can get the expanded version that says Nicola made a fool of me on that date. That should help you remember she made mugs of you.
Ifs - are you not anonymous?
DeleteHe was last week, but this week he is emboldened by the “ah but” narrative. The same one he rightly berated when it was made against A S. But when it comes to N S his irrational hatred makes him very angry and incoherent. Wee shame. But he managed to get all the egg off, so that’s good.
DeleteIFS at 2.27. It cleared asks two questions. Get someone to help you reading it.
DeleteAnon nutter at 3.27 on no it disnae.
DeleteAnon at 2.43 pm nope you are anonymous.
DeleteAnon nutter at 3.16pm remarkable you can post while wearing your straight jacket.
You can hold a view that someone has carried out criminal activities without them yet being prosecuted e.g. most of the USA accepted that Al Capone was a criminal long before he was eventually prosecuted for tax evasion.
ReplyDeleteMost of the anon numpties on SGP held Salmond was guilty even though he was formally acquitted by a jury. Sturgeon also held that view and expressed it on TV. There is of course a big big difference between some random anon numpty expressing their opinion on a blog and the FM of Scotland doing it on national TV.
Yesterday's rants.
DeleteIfs - al Capone? Move to 2025
DeleteAnon at 12.54 and 2.43pm typical anon troll rubbish.
DeleteHey IFS. How much did you donate? And why did you not simply ask for a refund? The offer of a refund was made. You just had to be able to show that you made a donation. You did make a donation surely? No? Ahhh. Get a life. Sad wee man.
DeleteWhy is it any of your business how much anybody personally donated. You are just a nasty ignorant troll that any blog could well do without.
DeleteAl Capone? ! Last week’s humiliation took a bigger toll on you than I realised. You have been shown up for the fool and the liar you are. You should leave it at that. Go back to wings and ask forgiveness and there’s the Mail and the Express. They share your irrational hatred of N S and the S N P. Funny that.
ReplyDeleteExcellent summary of the Branchform farce on WGD.
ReplyDeleteDid he figure out where all the money went?
DeleteI know where my contribution went and I am happy with that, as are others. Interestingly, one of the chief complainants did not even make a donation. Funny that. You are being manipulated and used.
DeleteAnon at 1.34pm - how exactly do you " know where your contribution went" ? Do you even know what ring fenced means?
DeleteWho is this "Chief Complainant" you refer to and how do you know they did not make a contribution?
I know where mine went as well. Into a brand new motorhome on the Murrell driveway although I was told it was being ring fenced for a referendum in 2023. If you're happy with being conned, that's up to you - some of is have more self-respect.
DeleteAnon at 2.28pm - some glove puppet will be along soon to say you are me.
DeleteSo one of the complainants didn’t donate! So you know them. Can I complain that my steak in a restaurant wisnae cooked properly although I never went to a restaurant! Disrupters, Doing the work of the britnats.
DeleteIFS, I know. It will be the same guy who accuses every anon he doesn't approve of of being either you or Stu Campbell. The irony, of course, being that he posts anonymously himself.
DeleteAnon at 2.28. It wasn’t on the Murrell was it? And if you donated (you didn’t), put yourself forward as a witness for the prosecution. They will want evidence of your donation. How much was it, out of curiosity. Did you you send less to Stu that month?
DeleteAnon at 2.46. Stay off the drink. Your post is incoherent and stupid. Where is the parallel?
DeleteI know from evidence in the public domain. Go find it, stupid. And if you knew what you were talking about you would not be claiming that all donations were made on condition of being ringfenced. Again, away and do some research. Facts really don’t sit well with you muppets do they? Credit where it is due though. You have recovered well from your complete humiliation last week. Has all the egg come off? Must have been sore.
DeleteThe National, 13th June 2017 "SNP: All the money raised on #ScotRef website is ringfenced to fight a future independence referendum".
DeleteThe SNP has reacted furiously to claims they used cash donations destined for an independence campaign to fight the general election.
The SNP said Kelly had the wrong end of the stick and that the ref.scot fundraiser was ringfenced specifically for any future referendum campaign.
None of the money donated to that campaign was used for the general election, they insisted. An SNP spokesman said: “Money raised on ref.scot is ringfenced for the purpose stated on the website".
Anon @ 3:28 PM
DeleteSince you've quoted a source I'd bet he'll just ignore you and start posting the same nonsense again on the next blog post.
Anon at 3.52pm that source has been posted previously but they just try and kid on that it wasn't. Anon at 3.11pm is a perfect example of an ignorant troll who just posts abuse. Ask them a question and they go berserk.
Delete" ALL the money.......... is ring fenced" The SNP trolls just hate the truth especially when clear evidence is provided to them. It's like troll kryptonite.
Anon troll at 2.21pm fails to answer the questions.
DeleteAlso note it says to "fight a referendum". It does not say for general SNP campaigning as anon numpties on here and WGD try to make out.
DeleteIncredibly they also say on WGD the Police found nothing untoward. They sent COPFS a report on Sturgeon and Beattie that that COPFS revived for over 6 months. They also had Murrell in court and released on bail. These WGD numpties believe this is nothing.
These WGD numpties live in a world of delusion where anything bad about the SNP is completely invisible to them. That is a mrental illness. That comment also applies to quite a few anons on SGP as well.
Anon at 3.28 and 3.52. Not at all. I’m not hiding. Just provide the link to the terms and conditions for donations to #Indyref2 and highlight the condition ringfencing donations. In your own time. See where this is going?
Delete" see where this is going? " yes I do. You in a straight jacket in an institution that's where.
DeleteSo you cannot provide a link either? Oh dear, more porkies from IFS and his little helpers. Let’s have the link. By 6.30.
DeleteAnon nutter troll at 6.18 we need you locked up for denying reality and living in a fantasy world and for just being a nuisance - like a wee toddler.
DeleteStill no link? Lies. Deflection. Personal insults. You are exhausting your armoury. Link please.
DeleteSlightly disturbing that IFS would lock up a toddler.
DeleteCalling anons at 3.28 and 3.52. Still waiting. No link? Oh dear. More porkies? Tut tut.
DeleteWhy did the anons posting here not simply ask for their money back.? The offer of a refund was made. Unless of course they never donated in the first place? Ahhh. Sad sacks. Get a life.
DeleteI sense a retreat on this one by IFS and his wee helpers. Away checking if a refund offer was made. Not that it matters. None of them donated. Checkmate.
DeleteA refund was only offered after the police started Branchform. Prior to the police being involved refunds were refused.
Delete“ none of them donated “ you don’t know that but I’m guessing you are the biggest liar posting on any blog this week.
DeleteIs the Anon at 5:38 PM suggesting that the SNP were lying to the media in 2017? For example in that referenced article above in The National dated 13th June 2017?
DeleteHe probably knows fine well that the original donation website ref.scot was taken offline years ago (and ironically it now leads to a gambling site), but multiple media sources and comments made by the SNP from the same period makes it clear: The money was ring fenced for a referendum campaign.
I'm not sure why he's still disputing that.
6.44pm very disturbing that you would make up such a lie.
DeleteLook this is a lot of nonsense started by disrupters who lie to disrupt. It is a fact that the money was to be put in a ring fenced fund for “ fighting” indyref2. It was even in an SNP annual accounts recorded as ring fenced funds. This entry then disappeared in future accounts.
DeleteAnon at 8.07. Did you donate? If so, did you ask for a refund? Deafening silence from you on this. And your mates. Wonder why.
DeleteAnon at 9.26. Let’s lay this nonsense to rest. Post a link to the accounts entry. That will prove it once and for all. And still waiting for the terms and conditions link. WOS is bound to have a copy. Get to it.
DeleteDoesn't help to just skip over points made in the conversation.
DeleteAnon @ 3:28 PM referenced a source & Anon @ 8:07 PM asks a good question as a follow-up. Why are they wrong?
Just doing a bit of checking on the disclaimer some are using in heir articles, that it is the poster's duty to make sure that any comment does not fall foul of the contempt of court for judicial proceedings. This is not really true, though it seems a fair defence is that as soon as notified, the publisher (the blogger) took down the offensive posting(s), or the relevant parts of them.
ReplyDeleteBut it relates just as much to proclamations of innocence, as guilt, and also to trying to destroy public confidence in the judiciary - which is called "scandalising the court" (also spelt with a z).
One blogger did time as we know, and it's not beyond the realms of possibility that action might be taken this time now Branchform is ended. There have been a lot of incautious conspiracy theory comments - and articles.
Here's of interest for bloggers, particularly near the end:
https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/guides/the-sub-judice-rule-and-contempt-of-court
and this about the scandalising:
https://www.beltramiandcompany.co.uk/news/criminal-defence/the-law-on-contempt-of-court
I really wish some of the Lawyers for YES would produce an article in, say, the National about this - a the next few months are going to raise a lot of heat and it would be a shame if anyone ended up doing time for their foolish complacent arrogant stupidity in smugly ignoring warnings.
Meanwhile please pass something like this around for blogs you visit - I've been in an astonishingly great mood for a couple of weeks now for various most excellent reasons where everything goes right for a very rare change, and the milk of my human kindness runneth over.
That won't last long!
Oh yes, and according to I think it was, Lady Dorrian, traditional media like the National have more protection because they have an editor. Blogs don't usually have one.
DeleteLogically they should have less protection as they have the “safeguard” of an editor. Purely my opinion and not referring to any active court case. Craig was of course given several opportunities to step back, but he was egged on by certain people who then disappeared like snow off a dyke. Forgotten their names.
DeleteI posted there telling him to put his family first and ignore those who were egging him on with nothing to lose themselves. A few others did the same, but he carried on regardless. A couple of very good articles though about his experiences inside.
DeleteSome anon trolls as well as David Frsncis do not like my opinions or reading the factual truth - tough.
ReplyDeleteTry this opinion then from Grumpyscottishman.
" Those celebrating Sturgeon not being charged this week are glove puppets of the worst kind. Their exCEO has been charged with embezzlement, he is accused of taking money from YES that was not his, this money may have been used by the SNP.
The SNP don't get to pretend that this has nothing to do with them just because Murrell has left the party.
The level of failure required to do the Unionist parties' work for them in saving the Union is formidable, but Ms Sturgeon managed it with something to spare. The Brits should probably build a statue of her to stand alongside Oliver Cromwell outside the British parliament.
Sturgeon, Murrell, and the SNP are quislings, and traitors, even more so than the filth who signed away our future in 1707. I hope they all rot in hell if there is one, their betrayal is the very worst in our cowardly, colonised history. "
A wee variation on the “N S and S N P are British state assets” narrative you were pushing last week. Cretinous stuff. I thought even you would avoid this type of conspiratorial nonsense but apparently not.
DeleteLol.
DeleteOne irrelevant wee Howler, referencing another.
Howl lowder........................👍👍👍
'Louder'
Delete3.00pm - you must be the same anon that cannae read properly. Where do I say that is MY opinion. With regards to me posting last week - " you were pushing last week" where and when?
DeleteDavid Francis SNP agent 003.5 licensed to abuse and bore.
DeleteThere and then. :)
DeleteIfs at 4.24. If you do not understand what you are saying in your own posts you need to give up. Another backfire! Oh dear, you are actually getting worse at this the more you try.
DeleteAnon troll at 5.58pm I do understand my own posts. I also understand you make up stuff to deflect from your inability to answer questions put to you.
DeleteIfs. What questions? Quiet room for you. Now!
DeleteA poster on Slugger O Toole suggests security service spooks were behind Branchform
ReplyDeleteThat wouldn't surprise me in the least.
And there's always kid on 'patriots' like 'Independence for Scotland '.
DeleteWas it the CIA or MI5 that parked the motor home on Murrell's mother's driveway?
DeleteProbably the car salesman or someone else. The ex FM did not have a full driving licence at that time you small minded twat.
DeleteWhere does IFS say Sturgeon drove the car -nowhere. You are just making stuff up.
DeleteOK, mini-IFS.
DeleteAbuse, the go-to when someone has lost the argument
DeleteAnon at 3.50. IFS’s little helper.
DeleteFemale SNP politicians are quitting the party en masse amid warnings the Scottish Parliament is becoming a "hostile environment for women".
ReplyDeleteWith the May 2026 elections looming, 14 female SNP MSPs - almost a quarter of the party's Holyrood cohort - have said they will not stand again.
Those leaving their posts next year have warned of "bullying, booing and braying" in Parliament - and have raised fears that a surging Reform UK could make things worse.
But in a series of scathing statements to The Guardian, outgoing MSPs have laid into their own party.
"Neither party nor Parliament are able to effectively support women when they encounter difficulties, and that's why we are losing far too many talented women to the detriment of democracy," Elena Whitham said.
While Michelle Thomson told the newspaper: "Politics is generally very misogynist, and I don't think the SNP can be complacent about its own internal mechanisms which mean that examples of inappropriate male behaviour - including bullying and sexual harassment - are not tackled."
Others have warned of bullying and factional tensions inside the SNP - while staffers have blamed the Scottish Tories.
A bit like Nessie hunters, people who somehow think independence is a good idea cling to the hope that their “dream” is still alive.
ReplyDeleteSadly for them, that “dream” died a long time ago.
Are you saying Nessie is dead?
DeleteIfs - we see you.
ReplyDeleteNo you don't you dimwit.
Delete2.47pm mad as a hatter stuff. Do you think you have his home bugged or something.
DeleteI’m surmising that anons at 3.06 and 4.12 aren’t the brightest.
Delete6.04pm - I'm summarising you are a raving looney if you think you can see me.
DeleteAt least try and use the right words. And spare yourself the indignity of pretending it was intended.
Delete6.40pm what a lot of gibberish.
DeleteAnon at 7.30. Really quite easy sentences to understand, except for you it seems.
Delete9.27pm no it was gibberish.
DeleteNational - Swinney - 2said he had “reorganised our party headquarters, and that’s now on a firm footing”."
ReplyDeleteWhich implies that it wasn't before.
Swinney is pushing that the SNP is the victim of the alleged embezzlement. That of course pulls the rug from under those numpties who say there is no alleged wrong doing. A victim (the SNP) needs some wrong doing done to it to be a victim.
DeleteWell done John the Redactor for pissing on the numpties.
Really delicious large black seedless grapes in Lidl. Crunchy and tasty. I recommend them. Go buy some.
DeleteIFS. Did you donate? If so, why did you not ask for your money back? It was offered. Or have you conveniently forgotten that?
DeleteIt was only offered after the Police started Branchform. Prior to that it was refused.
DeleteCoincidental, not causal. Perfectly reasonable course of action. Did you ask for a refund? Bit difficult when you didn’t donate? Your mates have had the sense to shut up and go away. Do the same and try to stagger off with a shred of dignity.
DeleteJohn Swinney did indeed piss on 6.55pm and 9.26pm. They are still stinking of piss and clearly upset about it.
Delete“Coincidental not causal “ claims the clown. Murrell previously told anyone wanting a refund to F off.
That's me, the missus and our son all placed advanced orders for Wee Nicky's new book.
ReplyDeleteShould be an interesting read.
Best Sellers List???
Get it bought, folks!
As an additional bonus........it will totally piss-off the tiny bunch of Sturgeon/SNP Hating Inbreds infesting this excellent Site.
A Win/Win 👍👍👍😁😁😁
Kerrrrrching!
DeleteDave Francis the Sturgeon worshipper, looking more and more a pretty sad individual with each passing day!
DeleteSave your money. You’ll be able to get 6 copies for a fiver at Xmas.
DeleteShould be a pretty short book.
Delete"Nicola Sturgeon: My Memoirs"
(Foreword by... she can’t remember.)
Chapter 1: My Time as First Minister
“I have no recollection of those events.”
Chapter 2: My Greatest Achievements
“I can’t remember the specific details.”
Chapter 3: What Inspired Me to Enter Politics
“That’s not something I recall.”
Chapter 4: Lessons Learned
Redacted. Possibly deleted.
Epilogue:
“I’m sure I did my best… I just can’t remember what it was.”
Spare a thought for David Francis' boaby. He is back in full flow, back pounding the wee man and then commenting here.
ReplyDeleteHe went through a tricky stage with Nicola in those jeans.. and went a bit quite.. but clearly he is back focused on indy.. when time allows.
Go yersel Dave.. indy is just the kind of guy we need.
Different thoughs..
ReplyDelete1/ Wine, song and rent boys, bit of cash gone adrift.
2 / Deleted Covid messages that could benefit the public if another pandemic occurs.
1/ is forgivable.. 2/ is not.
Mull it over.
Why would we mull over the nonsense that is in your head? Seek help.
Delete