Some of the emails have been harder to interpret than others. There was one a few hours ago accusing the rebels (ie. the wannabe Junta of Hendry, Blackley, MacNeil and Sheridan) of lying about their willingness to take the party's mammoth liabilities off the hands of other NEC members. A quote was supplied from the Junta's promotional website, but initially I couldn't work out what the lie was. However, I think I've belatedly twigged what is being referred to (correct me if I'm wrong). Here is the quote -
"The following members of the National Executive Committee (“NEC”) of the Alba Party (an unincorporated political party registered with the Electoral Commission, reference PP12700), namely, Angus Brendan MacNeil, Christina Hendry, Suzanne Blackley and Tommy Sheridan (the “interim leadership”) hereby guarantee that they will fulfil all of the functions, duties and responsibilities of the NEC as specified in paragraph 7 of the Constitution of the Alba Party until such time as the National Conference of the Alba Party elect a new NEC; and that the following members of the NEC shall hereby immediately resign and vacate their Alba Party office, namely, [presumably you Kenny and Neale but you will have to insert the names of the other existing NEC members who like you want to fold the party and do not want to stay on and fight]; and that the interim leadership undertakes to indemnify all NEC members against any liabilities that may arise from their decisions and assumption of NEC responsibilities commencing from the date this guarantee and indemnity is signed; but excluding any liabilities that have arisen or been intimated before the date this guarantee and indemnity was signed.
Signed on X date
By the interim leadership
Signed on X date
By retiring members of the NEC
Note: The document invited the outgoing leadership to insert the names of those who wished to resign. The brackets above reproduce the original text exactly as submitted."
I presume the point is that the Junta are only promising to cover liabilities incurred from the date on which the agreement is signed, which is utterly useless to the current leadership because it excludes all of the £200,000 liabilities identified by Corri Wilson in the secret audio recording that was passed to Scot Goes Pop on Saturday. All of the current NEC members would still be left personally liable for those, with all of the consequent dangers that Shannon Cullen might not be able to afford to get her nails done.
I must say it's also bizarre that the Junta are repeatedly accusing the MacAskill leadership of breaching the party constitution, given that they themselves want to drive a coach and horses through the constitution by getting the NEC to unilaterally hand the party over to an unelected "transitional leadership". Having sat on Alba's Constitution Review Group for those few traumatic months in 2024, I can say with some authority that there's no constitutional provision that would allow anything even remotely like that to happen.
I think the group have asked for information on current liabilities. As we all know Corri doesn’t always tell the truth and can’t count .
ReplyDeleteIt could be £20, it could be 2K she has problems with maths we know that from when she a MP .and the struggle to complete an expense return .
200k might be what she wants as a goodbye handshake ..
The group deserve to know ..
This is going downhill faster than a gold medal winning Great British snowboarder at the Winter Olympics which were rigged by Joe Biden to make it look like cheating garbage from Norwegia beat of greatest country on Earth.
ReplyDeleteUSA USA USA
Constitutions are for little people. Real despots shoot first and change rules later.
ReplyDeleteCouldn’t that nice labour millionaire bail them out?
ReplyDeleteAnon at 9.21pm that is a very dumb statement. The Labour millionaire is out to MAKE money not give it away. He sees it as an investment with a good possibility of a very high rate of return with a pleasant side dish of seeing Sturgeon squirming in court. Why would he waste his money on Alba.
DeleteIfs.You don’t understand irony numpty!
DeleteIfS - cos he's a unionist, dummy!
DeleteIrony - the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. Seems I do understand it.
DeleteYou should try and do better if that’s the best you can come up with.
You clearly don’t. Look at what you wrote. Back to school for you IFSy.
DeleteAnon at 6.48pm - back to Carstairs for you David. Wait a minute are you still there David.
DeleteHi IFSy I’m the anon you think is David. Do you see imaginary people a lot? Your Carstairs reference starts to have meaning. It’s good you are getting help.
DeleteNutter at 9.59pm.
DeleteBloody hell David Francis thinks he is somebody else - some anonymous person. Yep he is in Carstairs. Surprised they let him acess the internet though. But it is exceptional that he can still work a keyboard while wearing a straight jacket. That explains the few words per post.
When I was in Alba they never wanted to discuss constitutions . Alex said.no one has brought up constitutions on the doorsteps .
ReplyDeleteI await canvassers from all parties at my door .
I was an Albs conference once in Stirling where they wanted to agree a constitution no one could see . It was the strangest morning of my life . There was even people in the room that voted for a constitution they could not see .
Usually the politician brings up the point of his/her reason for being at the doorstep then asks how the respondent feels about that, obviously Salmond couldn't have cared less because explaining his reasons for being there would see him still standing on doorsteps mumbling death to Nicola Sturgeon to a closed door
DeleteDr Jim at 8.18 expressing his love of violence yet again.
DeleteHow much does it matter ? They seem to have done a most efficient job of dumping themselves in the dustbin of history.
ReplyDeleteThe phrase, 'Bald men fighting over possession of a comb' springs to mind!
ReplyDeleteWhat’s the Scottish angle on the current international crisis?
ReplyDeleteStephen Gethins spoke in Parliament yesterday, and invoked the “international rules based order”. Stephen doesn’t shy away from derision. Mark Carney wrote the obituary to the IRBO to much acclaim. Stephen still gets the memos from his former paymasters in Foggy Bottom, who sit in their offices and pine for the good old days, and the eventual disappearance of the Trump Doctrine. Perhaps they’re correct, and a President from the Democratic Party will return things to the status quo. The problem is that Carney accurately pointed out that the IRBO was always a fiction. American imperialism by stealth rather than fanfare.
Former MP for Glasgow South turned lobbyist for the Arms Industry, Stewart McDonald argues for a physical separation from the American MIC, and a reliance on a “joint defensive operation under Franco-British command”. Not the most terrible idea. For one thing, it infers that control would stay in London, and Paris, and not in the hands of the unelected European Commission, complete with its foaming at the mouth, Russophobe, High Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas. The problem is McDonald’s definition of “defensive”. McDonald serves his clients, and their concept of defence spending consists of big ticket, vanity projects for power projection such as nuclear submarines, and aircraft carriers.
Robin McAlpine’s hyperbolic interpretation of John Swinney’s position lacks historical context. Leaving aside Swinney’s attempt to railroad the SNP into active support for the invasion of Iraq (2003), Swinney’s current position is slightly more neutral than that of Starmer (and Starmer’s position is about as good as could be expected from a British PM). McAlpine also forgets Sturgeon’s advocacy for a no fly zone over Ukraine, in support of an ethnosupremacist regime suppressing the native cultures of citizens unfortunate enough to find themselves inside Kiev’s borders in 1991.
It would have been much easier and saved a lot of time for you to just write SNP bad.
DeleteYou'd still have got your £2
Stephen Gethins’ decision to decamp to Holyrood is perhaps a tiny ray of hope on an otherwise pitch black horizon. Gethins is a GeoPolitics, one-trick pony. He talks of that, and only that at Westminster. He will be deprived his favourite (and only subject) at Holyrood. Imagine Novak Djokovic giving up tennis to become a professional golfer.
DeleteGethins’ move to Holyrood may be the AngloAmerican Permanent State hedging their bets. Making sure their own people are in place should Scottish independence actually take place. Shaping the form, alignment, and constitution of an emergent, independent Scotland. Gethins would join Angus Robertson in that regard.
McAlpine's rant was hysterical rather than historical. One wonders how the ordinary members of Common Weal put up with him.
DeleteOk Vlad.
DeleteThe main thing Robin McAlpine has going for him is nothing
DeleteHard to see how we get there but some kind of non nuclear European alliance plus Canada, Australia, New Zealand seems best.
ReplyDeleteAnon 945 are using AI again without the intelligence?
ReplyDeleteWith its ultra volatile LNG compression facilities a mere 200km away from racks of thousands of cheep as chips, Iranian suicide drones, Qatar has shut down LNG operations (see also, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz). Someone blew up the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines (can’t imagine who). The dash away from North Sea gas has left us reliant on Yanqui LGN from fracking. The economics of fracked gas on the East coast of America was always dubious, now it’s a bonanza.
ReplyDeleteSecond tier Trump advisor, Elbridge Colby (one of the few with an IQ in three figures) wants to cut China off from Iranian hydrocarbons (Venezuelan also) by staging regime change.
We’re going to pay for American global dominance over China through our skyrocketing utility bills.
Congratulations to every UK Prime Minister since, and including Thatcher. We’re a deindustrialised backwater, who voluntarily cut ourself off from native feedstocks for our steel, and chemical industries. We’re ruled by a self perpetuating clique of middle class humanities graduates who’s ignorance of STEMs is matched only by their arrogance.
The logic of the Elbridge Colby argument is reasonably compelling. The timing is not. By common agreement, Israel was out of missile interceptors at the end of the last 12 day exchange of fire. Neither Israel, or America have had time to significantly replenish their stockpiles.
DeleteThe Americans allowed themselves to be bounced by Israel into starting the current conflict. Why?
Leaving aside the possibility of averting a crisis in Israeli domestic politics which could endanger Netanyahu, and of which we know nothing, it’s a reasonable working hypothesis that Israel sees a dwindling degree of control over American politics, and wants to act sooner rather than later.
AIPAC are under attack from the Left, and the Right. Tucker Carlson and others on the Right have the Israelis rattled. To a lesser extent the aristocracy in the Democratic Party are reluctantly distancing themselves from the Greater Israel project.
I doubt the coming US mid-term elections will actually be a cataclysmic moment for Israel, and AIPAC, but they’re nothing if not drama queens. Their self entitled , and false, existential need for absolute control over American politics will drive them to make hasty decisions which will speed their ultimate demise.
Dubai based tax exile, and malignant melanoma dodger, Isabel Oakeshott thinks we should be paying for her protection next to the Gulf of Oman.
ReplyDeleteOakeshott famously thinks you can’t be British unless you’re white.
Rather begs the question, WTF is she doing in the Middle East?
Dulux are about to launch a new shade of super white emulsion to their range called “Oakeshott”.
Anon March 3 @ 4.11 PM. Ah - Isobel Oakeshott - Mr Tice of Reform's partner, who once suggested that families on benefits (or was it Scots on benefits?) should stop living beyond their means and could survive on a bag of oatmeal/porridge oats for a week?
DeleteMeanwhile, Daily Record quoting Alba financial bod that Alba allegedly spent £50,000 between 2022 and 2024 on flights for Alex Salmond + a.n. other(s) weekly Edin - London, others to Geneva etc. Presumably their comment that Alex was not an MP or MSP and in a party with no democratically elected bods suggests this was a foolish keep up with the Joneses' optic expenditure.
Isabel Oakeshott is completely wrong, you can't be British unless you're English
DeleteExcept for when the English want Scotland and Wales to vote for them in elections, then they'll call us British people until the election is over and we're back to being nobodies again
Scottish sub-sample from remarkable YouGov, Westminster voting intention poll.
ReplyDeletePopulation sample 180.
Con 7%, Lab 12%, LibDem 12%, SNP 38%, RefUK 16%, Green 10%.
SNP & Greens within a baw hair of an absolute majority.
Basing this on absolutely nothing at all I'd be amazed if the snp get more than 35% of the vote once the "20 years of govt. Time for a change " kicks in.
ReplyDeleteId go snp 31, reform 20, Labour 17, lib dems 10, tories 7, greens 10, others 3
Spot on! Have you got this week's Euromillions' numbers too? Thanks.
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