(Incidentally, a few days before McEleny was ousted as GenSec at the start of the year, Wilson posted a video of herself on Facebook gloating in coded language about what was about to happen, so it's reasonable to see her as the Macro to McEleny's Sejanus. The ominous news for Wilson and the wider Corri Nostra is that, as fans of I, Claudius know, Macro eventually met exactly the same grisly fate as the man he toppled.)
In the National piece, McEleny repeats the allegation that was made to me in an anonymous email on Friday - ie. he says that Alba's local by-election candidates this year were illegitimately nominated, because none of them had his authorisation as Nominating Officer. An Alba spokesperson is quoted hotly denying that any illegality has occurred -
"There is no truth in the suggestion that the Alba Party has acted improperly or illegally when nominating candidates for local by-elections. In every case, the electoral requirements have been valid and in order as evidenced by the acceptance of multiple returning officers."
An anonymous commenter on this blog has made the following observation about that -
"The Alba statement might get them in hot bother as it shows they’re incompetent or lying. Returning officers accept forms at face value. If the form has been signed saying authority has been granted the RO doesn’t take any other action. The breaking of the law will be that surely McEleny didn’t sign the forms or grant authority to do so, so either Corri Nostra is in trouble for pretending to candidates they had authority or the candidates themselves will be thrown under the bus."
I wouldn't be totally surprised if that comment was left by the same person who anonymously contacted me by email on Friday, and I also wouldn't be totally surprised if that person is...well, I'm sure you can join the dots for yourselves. Just to reiterate my disclaimer from Friday, I have no legal expertise, so I have no idea whose interpretation of the law is correct. I'm just providing you with the quotes for information.
(UPDATE, 1.15am: I've been emailed again by the anonymous source, who says that the public statements from Alba do not match what is being told in private to senior members of the party.)
Meanwhile, the bigger picture is that Alba, which has already been reduced to fringe party status without parliamentary representation, is heading for an unmitigated catastrophe in next year's Holyrood election. The most recent poll (from YouGov) has them on just 1% of the list vote - even less than they received in 2021.
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Just when you thought Alba couldn't get more incompetent and amateurish, they get more incompetent and amateurish.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder they previously teamed up with Wings 🤣
In West Dunbartonshire a candidate was selected and put into position with no local involvement whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the electoral commission removed McEleny as per the Herald article today rather than him going freely
ReplyDeleteThanks. I've updated the blogpost accordingly.
DeleteThe Alba party will almost certainly cease to exist after the next election.
ReplyDeleteIn contrast to the SNP which will continue to be the dominant party in Scotland and will run the next Scottish Government.
Much to the chagrin of a certain baboon in Bath and his cult followers north of the border.
It's good to see you're not taking anything for granted
DeleteThe Alba Party will refuse to take part in the next fake election which will be held so ruling clicks can carry on the fleecing the money off us. Its all a big con.
Delete"I'm not a cult follower" - IfS
DeleteAre fake parties allowed to stand?
DeleteAlba was never intended to be an actual political party in the fist place
ReplyDeleteI believe what you say is true, that it was formed for 'something other'.
DeleteTHE WORM HAS TURNED
ReplyDeleteBTL comment on Stewie's latest post:
"Salmond’s widow is in the poor house
shame
hey rev tell us more about trannies I want to know"
This is a political statement to avoid paying taxes and completely untrue, all of Salmond's legal costs were crowdfunded and then some
DeleteNo they weren't, only the one against the ScotGov
Deletesalmond manufactured these allegations against himself so he could MAKE A FORTUNE by fleecing his gullible supporters as he was jealous of the luxury camper vans being enjoyed by the Murrells
DeleteI saw that - good comment about Lloyd though
DeleteNEVER FORGET
NEVER FORGIVE
If Alba were at all politically relevant they would be in big trouble over this.
ReplyDeleteThat's a big If.
DeleteBBC exposed big time indulging in manufacturing misinformation propaganda.
ReplyDeleteNot a surprise to Scottish Nationalists who over the years who have witnessed the British Bias Corporation first hand. Indeed think indy marches and how number attending could be reduced from many many tens of thousands to a few hundred and you get but one example.
But this time the BBC picked the wrong target and President Trump in his ex British colony is doing something about it and the headline money he is threatening to sue for is the least important aspect of his retribution.
Yes, with a Scottish mother from Lewis, and a tough business upbringing in Queens, this impacting much higher than the BBC heads that have rolled thus far.
Trumps lawyers uses the I’ll sue for a billion dollars tactic to close up any challenges. It was done long before the BBC’s programme in relation to his opinions and dealing with females in particular. Personally I would send a postal order for a £5 for a programme he never watched. Seems to me the right wing torygraph probably got a copy from some right wing person in the bbc be it a board member or friend of the right wing press. They will try and force the appointment of another right winger onto the bbc. Must be plenty folk around in the Labour Party that fits that bill. They attacks on snp including Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond also illustrates the manipulation by the bbc and others. In 2014 the French ambassador lies involved the bbc , the Tory papers, Lib Dem’s and tories in the “Scottish Office”. The attack on Salmond by the bbc reporter claiming Salmond hadn’t answered his questioned. Lis Smith and our cronies and the removal of independent thinking broadcasters on BBC Scotland. Sadly the NUJ did nothing.
DeleteTrump is the Emperor of bluster, he threatens to sue at least five entities per week for forty gazillion spondoolics each.
DeleteLondon is the global centre for suing for reputational damage, but this isn’t some publisher, or journalist being sued by a central Asian dictator, this is the BBC.
The BBC is a strategic asset of the Permanent State. The propaganda arm of the Security Services.
In the highly unlikely event that Trump’s threat ever reached an actual private prosecution, the Judge would be taken quietly aside, and asked whether their life insurance was up-to-date.
“You wouldn’t like to have the brakes on your car, catastrophically fail at the top of a very steep hill, now would you?”.
10.22 am ... you should write a novel.
DeleteAnon at 10.22. Bit early for the sauce?
DeletePlaid Cymru on a very rare 2% of the UK wide poll, YouGov, Westminster voting intention, field work 10th Nov.
ReplyDeleteA portent of next year’s Senedd election?
Maybe the bbc itv cnn and others shouldnt repeat Trumps attacks on individuals on air without appropriate fact checking as if it is a bit of a joke.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Liberate /Salvo have incurred the wrath of their UN Advocates.
ReplyDeleteI saw that. LOL. You couldn't make this stuff up.
DeleteYouGov, Westminster voting intention, field work 9 - 10 Nov.
ReplyDeleteScottish sub-sample (206)
Con 11%, Lab 17%, LibDem 12%, SNP 33%, RefUK 21%, Green 5%
Wonderful, Welsh sub-sample (114)
Con 11%, Lab 11%, LibDem 7%, Plaid Cymru 36%, RefUK 27%, Green 7%.
Plugged into Senedd Election Simulator (Cardiff University), seat projection:
Plaid Cymru 43, RefUK 32, Lab 8, Con 6, LibDem 4, Green 3
Plaid 5 seats short of majority, which can be reached in coalition with Greens, and LibDems.
Come in Agent Starmer, yer tea’s oot.
I detest the BBC for its totally blinkered, colonialist and anti-democratic stance on the subject of Scottish Independence and want it totally eradicated and replaced with a genuine SCOTTISH national broadcaster after Indy.
ReplyDeleteHowever, what we are witnessing now, is a political assault on it by the far right in the UK aided by that obese orange fascist dictator in the White House
Their very obvious plan is to install even more of their placemen stooges, like Robbie Gibb, at all levels of senior management, so that the narrative swings even more to their liking and which will also play right into the hands of mini-me-Trump Farage and his fascist racist clowns
Everyone now knows that Trump is a total imbecile, but an imbecile who wields his power like a banana republic general and who has not only destroyed the notion of 'facts and truth' but has actively tried to shut down any media which incurs his displeasure simply by using them..
If he and his UK helpers succeed with the BBC, all that will happen is it will morph into an even more anti-Scottish anti-democratic piece of crap than it already is.
There will be no upside to this.