All of the abuse, all of the bullying, all of the smears and being forced out of @theSNP by gender zealots.
— Neale Hanvey ALBAπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ (@JNHanvey) December 11, 2024
It was all worth it to protect young people from the rumination of their futures from charlatans who sought to arrest their development in a child like sate with the lie… https://t.co/Hi7HcG5U6w
Expulsions are taking place in Alba too, Neale, let's be honest. Are the people responsible for that also "zealots"?
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) December 11, 2024
Who & why?
— Bonnie Bloo (@Blutooner) December 12, 2024
Me, last week. Geoff Bush a few weeks ago. There was at least one other expulsion this year, but I won't reveal that person's name because I don't think it's in the public domain.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) December 12, 2024
As for the 'why', there is no why, except for saying things the leadership don't want to hear.
Give your head a wobble. You know the reasons why!
— Nodrog (@Nodrog83490806) December 12, 2024
Sorry, what the hell is that supposed to mean? Specifics, please. What are you alleging the reasons were? The floor's all yours, Nodrog. Give your tongue a wobble and spill the beans. In your own time.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) December 12, 2024
You can repost as many times as you want π€£π€£ but your truth varies greatly to actual reality. Go bother someone else.
— Nodrog (@Nodrog83490806) December 12, 2024
"Go bother someone else"? You replied to me, not vice versa. Nice try, but you don't get off the hook that way. You claim to know the reasons for the Alba expulsions, but when pressed for specifics seem to clam up. Try again. What are these reasons?https://t.co/UW6VMTXFPN
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) December 12, 2024
My final reply was a quote-tweet, because "Nodrog" blocked me before I could reply directly. But perish the thought that he was concerned about getting himself into a pickle if he was pressed any further.
As far as Neale Hanvey is concerned, I do have to say that his timing in making a renewed song and dance over the last week about bullying, unjust expulsions and forced departures in the SNP has been truly extraordinary. It's one thing to turn a blind eye to bullying, unjust expulsions and forced departures in your own party, but to do that while repeatedly lambasting exactly the same behaviour in a rival party, is a pretty blatant double-standard. Indeed there's a rather more direct word for it than double-standard. I and others publicly supported Neale when he was unjustly suspended from the SNP in the middle of the 2019 general election, but so far there's been no support coming in the reciprocal direction. In fact the silence has been deafening.
To return to "Nodrog", I was trying to think who he reminded me of when he kept insisting there were "reasons" but refused to provide any specifics. But then another tweet came along and I suddenly remembered in a blinding flash -
Alba MSP @AshReganALBA has handed her Christmas list to ‘Santa’….
— Alan Smith (@Political_AlanS) December 12, 2024
Free school meals for all primary pupils tops the list pic.twitter.com/Nm489SsYJ0
All I got from Santa McEleny / Chris Claus was a sack of coal. https://t.co/lA6BHMudPk
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) December 12, 2024
Alba are becoming kafkaesque. 'We're not going to tell you the charges but, by god, you know why you're guilty and don't pretend otherwise'
ReplyDeleteChrist, imagine Conduct Christopher coming down your chimney in the middle of the night. What a disturbing mental image, especially for the Andy Swans of this world.
ReplyDeleteI think all of us, on all sides of this debate, can agree that we feel tremendous sympathy for Andy Swan.
DeleteYes.
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DeleteI knew a Gordon in high school who spelled his name backwards sometimes, too. Think it was his Dungeons & Dragons character name. He was a headstrong Dwarf who charged in battle headfirst and suffered the consequences with drunken aplomb, or something. All while huddled with fellow nerds at his mum's!
ReplyDeleteNodrog Gordon shows how pathetic ALBA is.
ReplyDeleteJames, the "Nodrog" account has only 50 followers, but they just happen to include McEleny himself, Hamish Vernal, Shannon Donoghue, Chris Cullen, Robert Reid, Robert Slavin, Daniel Jack, Charlie Abel, Gail Hendry, Christina Hendry and Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh. Safe to assume that whoever "Nodrog" is, it's not just some random person. The name is obviously "Gordon" spelt backwards, but to me the schoolgirl writing style has a touch of the Donoghues about it. I wonder.
ReplyDeleteCould well be. The overuse of emojis is suggestive of Shannon Donoghue (she's not the only person in "the gang" who does it, though).
DeleteOne Nodrog it certainly isn't is Gordon Millar.
Deletehttps://www.denisefindlay.org/post/guest-blog-by-gordon-millar-alba-in-the-balance
Alba and the SNP are both in deep fiscal doodoo?
Someone posted a link here the other day about the SNP taking three large six-figure donations recently, so they may be out of the woods for the time being. But Alba are still in deep trouble, I believe.
DeleteWeren't most of the donations the SNP received from the deceased?
DeleteSo what? Cash is cash.
DeleteCuriously enough the SNP's donations added up to £600,000.
DeleteSEE! It was ring-fenced all along! All you had to do was shake Pete Murrell hard enough and it was all safely stored in his pockets. He's a good wee piggy bank, so he is.
DeleteAlex Salmond was the MP for the Gordon constituency. Is Nodrog the AS clique?
DeleteNew 'Find Out Now' poll out today placing Reform in second place just 1 point behind Labour in Westminster voting intentions.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see some Scottish polling cross tabs on support for Reform among Yes/No and Leave/Remain voters.
DeleteSomething tells me No/Remainers will be terrified of them, and just as scunnered on Prime Minister Farage as Yes/Remainers. His rise could drive them toward independence.
Scotland voted 2:1 Remain, remember. So No/Leavers aren't significant as the great big chunk of Scots who voted No/Remain. The smallest of the four groups: Yes/Leavers (I know several) are a wildcard, as Reform appeals to one side of their worldview while independence does the other. Those I know would all still vote Yes, even if Indy Scotland was applying to rejoin Europe on day one. But several are also considering voting for Reform, to put a rocket up the SNP's backside.
Wasn’t the money donated from….. the usual gossip mongers. A hint here, a wee bit more there…
ReplyDeleteIs Neale Hanvey the one who claimed the SNP were going to lower the age of consent to 10?
ReplyDeleteGolly. That would be poopy.
DeleteThe same Neale Harvey who lost his deposit at the last election.
DeleteThat's what the mighty Alba will win for you!
DeleteIn all fairness Nodrog is just a backward Gordon trying to catch up.
ReplyDeleteI see Alba are now at the..... its the refugees fault stage in their downfall.
ReplyDeleteAlba should merge with Reform. Birds of a feather......
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