Kate gracefully playing her part in re-uniting the SNP.
— Toni Giugliano (@ToniGiugliano) March 29, 2023
The Leadership contest is over. We have a Cabinet that reflects what the membership voted for and it’s time to get behind them. https://t.co/CTE8UTIkCb
"We have a Cabinet that reflects what the membership voted for"
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) March 29, 2023
That is an absolutely *extraordinary* statement. You cannot run a party on an 'all or nothing' basis in a parliamentary democracy, with the 52% getting everything and the 48% getting nothing.
Actually you can.
— Toni Giugliano (@ToniGiugliano) March 29, 2023
All right. You're not even going through the motions of pretending I misunderstood you, you're stating the hubris quite openly, and I suppose that's admirable in one sense.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) March 29, 2023
This is only going to end one way, and you're experienced enough that I'm stunned you can't see it coming.
I've noticed some of the staffers have replies turned off to their tweets as well. It's like they're closing ranks *against their own members*, with this arrogant belief that people will vote for them anyway so they don't have to care about the core membership base. Isn't that how Scottish Labour fucked themselves over pre-2007?
ReplyDeleteIt's been quite alarming to watch many in the SNP come out with this kind of delusional detached-from-reality rhetoric, almost like they have their hands over their ears saying "la la la I'm not listening". I don't know how they expect to invigorate activists during election period. Unless of course, as I said, they believe they don't need them because Scotland will still vote for them regardless. Everything about the SNP in recent times screams "Last Days of Rome" and it's depressing.
Ignoring everyone who disgrees with in the SNP nad outwith was the political culture introduced into the SNP by Nikola. I willl continue with Humza.
DeleteInteresting dilemma for the 48% - share full discovery over the rigged election, or stay wheesht for the (ahem) troughing minority
ReplyDeleteEvery (and I mean EVERY) SNP supporter that myself and my partner have spoken to over the past few days has said they're totally done with them and won't be voting for them again. I reckon the SNP are in for a big shock. It's a total bunker mentality.
ReplyDeleteThey're finished.
ReplyDeleteWith any luck we'll get a by election in Rutherglen to shake this complacency- though whether losing a seat would actually have that impact is probably wishful thinking.
ReplyDeleteYou can’t argue with these people. It’s half personality cult with a leader on life support and half zombie business model. The only thing that’ll force these folk to recognise reality is cash. I’m surprised Robin McAlpine didn’t concentrate on this particular failure mode.
ReplyDeleteThe genuine membership numbers are (my guess) c. 50k and apparently dropping precipitously. The £1.2m Short money they receive from the British state will reduce proportionally to their loss of MPs in 2024. My guess again, at least 50% loss. Legacy donations have dried up. All financial reserves have been plundered (even the “ring fenced one).
And that’s without any further shocks to the system. What if wee Peter goes to jail? What if the conspiracy to fit up Alex Salmond sees the full light of day?
Membership could go onto free-fall.
The senior payroll of whom Giugliano is but one example is bloated, entitled and devoid of options other than to remain to the bitter end. The junior payroll appear to be 20 something interns suffering minimum wage for the illusory prospect of boarding the big, yellow, gravy bus that departed years ago when Sturgeon committed to Poststructural dogma.
With a heavy heart, I personally left the SNP last night after 14 years of active membership.
ReplyDeleteOn the positive; a decent new bridge, 50,000 new social homes delivered in the last five years, and a good start on a new Social Security Service, and who doesn't like baby boxes?
The thing is, I kept in, waiting for a serious review of why IndyRef1 was not won, waiting to be saved from Brexit, waiting for a rethink of Sterlingisation/Growth Commission nonsense, waiting for meaningful land reform, waiting for meaningful extension of real powers to local government and local communities, waiting for closing of the educational attainment gap, waiting for a national energy company, waiting for bridges and tunnels to connect our islands/mainland, waiting for institutional reform and challenging vested interests, waiting for new ferries, waiting for less drug deaths, waiting for a real new green deal, waiting for powers over employment law and immigration, waiting for policies that address relative population decline, waiting for wealth taxes, waiting for end of all tax waivers for private schools, waiting for radical and progressive replacement of the council tax, waiting for IndyRef2, waiting for a real reduction in poverty, waiting for party reform and an NEC that represents its members, and gets to control the party (and even look at the accounts), waiting for a Supreme Court judgement, waiting for a de-facto referendum, waiting for a leadership election, waiting for a new Cabinet, waiting for the next MSP letter in The Scotsman or Daily Telegraph article, telling us how really difficult it all is and that we should spend the next 10? 15? 20? years waiting for a few more powers/crumbs from Wesminster. Devo-Minus is all I see on the current strategy and projection and reconfirmed in the last few days.
I was also waiting for a glorious win over Spain, but to be fair, only one day into the job, and Humza delivered. They can never take that away from him.🙂
Choose Life.
Take a Break.
Choose another party (at some point).
King Charles Addressing the German Parliament.
ReplyDelete" Many German firms are involved in the production and erection of turbines off the the British coast. The North Sea across which our people have travelled and traded for generations is soon to be the site of a new interconnector allowing us to directly trade electricity."
So the Scottish coastline gets covered in turbines to produce electricity for England and now Germany. Scotland disnae get a look in. Not even mentioned. No funds come our way. No jobs come our way. We have been exploited for our oil and gas resources and now the same for wind power. Only recently Starmer boasted about another new connector from Scotland to Bridlington in Yorkshire - just one of many in situ or planned to take electricity down south. And some people still claim we are a valued partner in the UK. We are a colony and Sturgeon is only the most recent colonial governor.
On a personal note OVO sent me an email telling me my standing charge for electricity has gone up by 20% and my standing charge for gas by 10%. My estimated energy bill for next year is now £4,000 only two years ago it was £1,200. Yet Tory MP Lamont said in the House of Commons yesterday at Scottish questions that the average household was getting £3,600 of government support. Can't say I have seen any government support but this implies the true cost of my energy bill is actually £7,600. Yet in mainland Europe people's bill are a fraction of this. We are being monstrously ripped off as a country and individually and our politicians facilitate this crime.