If you're voting by post today, please consider voting Alba on the list ballot - but make sure you vote SNP on the constituency ballot. Here's a blogpost to explain why: https://t.co/L9PmtWV4hN #sp21 #indyref2
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 15, 2021
You’re so funny. You wrote 40 articles screaming about the idea of a Wings party damaging the Yes cause if it got EXACTLY the sort of 3%-ish support Alba is getting now.
— Ghana Tourism Advice (@ComeToGhana) April 15, 2021
Your position would be so much more respectable if you just admitted it was solely founded on personal animosity. The hypocrisy is pitiful.
— Ghana Tourism Advice (@ComeToGhana) April 15, 2021
OK, you've demanded a substantive response, Stuart, so here it comes, over a few tweets. Polling in the campaign so far has vindicated the claims that I made about a potential Wings party, and it has blown a hole in the claims that you made about it.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 15, 2021
You suggested that a Wings party could very easily achieve 14% of the vote or so. The Alba Party has so far polled between 2-6% with several huge names on board and a former First Minister as leader.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 15, 2021
That puts it well in contention for seats, but leaves no room for doubt that a Wings party without credible leadership would have flopped.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 15, 2021
Not only would you not have been in contention to win any seats at all, it's also unlikely that you'd even be registering in the opinion polls. At most you'd be on 1%, but it would probably be zero. You wouldn't be an alternate version of Alba, you'd in fact be RISE Mark II.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 15, 2021
On your other point, I'm afraid it's simply a fact that - unlike you - my views about the voting system have not changed since 2016. I don't believe in gaming the system.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 15, 2021
I said five years ago that the list vote is the banker vote and that people should always use it to vote for their first choice party. The only thing that has changed is that Alba have been created and are now my first choice party.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 15, 2021
It's true that I now support a party that *advocates* gaming the system, but that's not my own reason for supporting them. As for your claim that my opposition to the Wings party can only have been based on "personal animosity", you know perfectly well that makes no sense.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 15, 2021
There was no personal animosity between us at that point - we followed each other on Twitter and linked to each other's blogs. I also, as I told you, stood up for you at considerable length in a face to face meeting with Mike Small and Angela Haggerty in 2017.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 15, 2021
It was only *after* I argued against the wisdom of a Wings party that you threw the toys out of the pram and started calling me a "c**t" and trying to intimidate me by instructing your solicitor to send me legal threats at the dead of night.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 15, 2021
What I simply don't understand is this: you've been given a golden opportunity, against all the odds, to use this campaign to make the positive case for a party that you agree with. Instead you're still wittering on about the trans issue and trying to settle old scores.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 15, 2021
It's almost as if you're disappointed that Alba have been set up, because you wanted an excuse to carry on with the negativity and bitterness.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 15, 2021
£50 says we don’t get a substantive response.
— Ghana Tourism Advice (@ComeToGhana) April 15, 2021
Would you like to send me my winnings by cheque, Paypal, or bank transfer?
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) April 15, 2021
Is that him asking Scots to send more of their hard earned money to England there?
ReplyDeleteTories prefer England due to it's right-wing governments and lower income tax rates.
That aside, aye James, you did say it would take a well known figurehead's close involvement to have any hope of success. Alex Salmond at the helm and 3% so far on average does seem to show how right you were about a party led by English citizen / taxpayer of 30 years from bath being a flop.
I really find SC's behaviour increasingly inexplicable.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he's angling for a slot on GB News?
Deletehttps://www.thenational.scot/news/19239770.neil-oliver-join-andrew-neils-gb-news-move-towards-news-commentary/
Campbell is maintaining his ANTI-SNP rant, ignoring his own belief that, "words have consequences".
ReplyDeleteHe's not helping to max the YES, he's giving unionists a free ride IMO.
Meanwhile Mhairi Black's article in today's National in defence of both votes SNP is useful until you factor in the likelihood that the SNP will fare better in May on the constituency vote than it did in 2016.
Splitting your vote worries existing Unionist MSPs.
The status quo suits them just fine.
Two crosses - one VOTE one VETO is the way to go if we're to make progress to a second Indyref.