...and I completely forgot an article of mine was due to be published by The National. It's a polling review of 2025, which I wrote just before Christmas. But I needn't have worried, because my devoted Somerset-based stalker decided to promote it for me. Nine retweets, thirty-seven likes, and counting! Many thanks, Stew. What would I do without you.
Note how he addresses "Yes supporters" as if that's a body of opinion he's no longer part of. There's probably a reason for that. As we turn our attention to 2026, the easiest prediction of all to make is that Stew will endorse the far-right British nationalist party Reform UK (albeit with some sort of caveat about how you should vote for whichever unionist party is best-placed to beat the SNP in your area, unless you happen to live in Fergus Ewing's constituency). He will unconvincingly try to make that sound like a spontaneous last-minute decision that only became regrettably inevitable due to the specific circumstances of the time, rather than something he has been pre-planning for a couple of years and painfully gradually preparing the ground for (while assuming the rest of us are too thick to notice what he's doing).
What perhaps isn't clear yet is what his cover story will be. Will he argue that to win independence, we must first destroy independence, so that some wonderful brand new pro-independence force can somehow magically appear out of nowhere in the midst of the "purifying flames" of Reform rule? Or will he claim that there's literally no way of voting for independence at present (he recently test-drived the narrative of "the SNP aren't going to do anything about independence and their voters don't even want them to"), and it's therefore fine to vote for soft-fascist unionism because the priority for now has to be to "protect women and girls" by electing the arch-feminist (checks notes) Nigel Farage?
Oooooh, the suspense.
You can read my article for The National HERE.
Exclusive to The Herald on Sunday:
ReplyDeleteMayor Swinney intends to stand for reelection as leader of the SNP at Holyrood, 2031!
A tacit admission that no progress towards independence will be made this decade, or under his watch.
Scotland forever held in cryogenic suspension in a state of devolution.
The ideal scenario for Swinney, and his band of parasitical technocrats. British state salaries, and pension contributions jusqu’à la morte.
Even the Irish Parliamentary Party weren’t this blatant, and craven in their surrender to English imperialism.
The door to independence lies unlocked, and slightly ajar, yet Swinney is too feart tae push against it.
Look on, and weep all those who think this captured, and corrupted vehicle can take us to independence.
Farage is a vehicle of purity. He's just pretending to be a unionist. He'll take us to indy!
DeleteAnyone reading the herald on Sunday and be,Irving the right wing britnat paper needs a lobotomy.
DeleteAnon @ 12:15
DeleteIt’s an interview with Swinney, not an opinion piece. The acceptance of perpetual devolution comes from the mouth of Swinney himself.
Anon @ 11:16
DeleteAddress the issue at hand. Don’t try and distract from Swinney’s abject surrender. It matters not a jot what Farage says or does. The SNP under Swinney will do nothing to progress independence. Continental drift will separate Scotland from England before the SNP does.
From the Herald article:
DeleteWould he stand again at the next election? "Well, obviously I'd go through the whole term. And my aspiration is to be a long term political leader, so I would expect to be standing in 2031 as well.""
2031 is the expected date of the DEVOLVED election. One for Independence could be any date, like 2028 after a Referendum. So either that's a dead giveaway, or thoughtlessly put. So the question is - does Swinney do thoughtless?
I suppose if you were being charitable you could say he's imagining a 'through train' where the devolved parliament becomes the independent parliament, and election dates remain as previously scheduled.
DeleteAch, there's always the Sovereignty party !
DeleteAnon @ 14:31
DeleteIf ye keep flogging yon deed horse any longer, you’ll get a repetitive strain injury.
Swinney could put a flashing neon sign behind his desk reading:
“I luv devolution”
and you’d still drink the Kool-Aid.
Anon at 3:26 and what's your plan for independence? Actually you remind me of Jim Sillars' latest bright idea - that Reform becoming the UK government will inevitably result in Scotland freeing itself from Westminster.
DeletePeople read the Herald on Scotland? Do they both like it?
DeleteStrange that he should suddenly want to "protect women and girls". He has always made his misogyny crystal clear.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he wants to be a sugar daddy? Yuk
DeleteHe probably already is. Where do we think all that crowdfund cash went.
DeleteTrue
DeleteI'm no great defender of Stew, he can defend himself, but I don't believe that "he always made his misogyny crystal clear".
DeleteAlso he's unlikely to be a sugar daddy as that implies occasionally having sex
DeleteUK-wide poll dated 24/12/25, seen on F.book: Reform on 30%; Consrvative 18%; Green 17%; Labour 14%; Lib.Dem. 12%; SNP 3%; PC 1%. So Scottish subsample seen there.
ReplyDeleteI see that the unionists are out in force!!! Nothing better to do over the festive period, no pals, twisted lies, negative rhetoric to go into a new year!!! Straw Man Fallacy!!! Obvious that they are panicking! Ha! Ha! Ha!
ReplyDeleteI am sure we will find out what was really said as opposed to what the Herald prints. So many want to believe the britnats these days. Honest, they all support independence.
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking for a while that Campbell will announce something similar to your option B. That is, independence is obviously off the table so we might as well all vote for a party that'll hammer the ladyboys. That's my bet for the big Bath reveal anyway.
ReplyDeleteI like the SNP's current plan of saying they'll respect the Supreme court's judgement on sex based rights while actually doing the opposite. Not that I have much interest in gender politics, but I am hoping they might get a taste for ignoring the Supreme Court completely and have the guts to hold a Holyrood approved indyref.
Stick that in the manifesto John and you can count on both my votes.
Campbell will probably say that voting for racist fascist Reform would be the catalyst for destroying the union, as it would be so repulsive to most Scots that they would rise up against Farage rule and demand to break away completely after just one term.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that racist fascist Reform would almost immediately seek to gut the existing powers given to Holyrood, let WM make new laws banning even the notion of Scottish Independence as a criminal offence, take benefits from the poorest and disabled while reducing taxes for the very richest and ignoring their evasion techniques and letting American health insurance leeches destroy our NHS, wouldn't bother that wee Bath rodent one little bit.
As long as the toilet/changing room police were out in force he would be happy.
PS; It certainly didn't take long for some of Campbell's simpletons to try and deflect from the main points of your focus on him and racist fascist Reform onto their favourite target the SNP.
What a bunch of lowlife crawling wee Wings cringers.
"Campbell will probably say that voting for racist fascist Reform would be the catalyst for destroying the union, as it would be so repulsive to most Scots that they would rise up against Farage rule"
DeleteQuite the reverse, actually. He's somehow convinced himself that Prime Minister Farage will be wildly popular in Scotland.
He is even more deluded than I thought, then.
Delete2026 -Will ALBA just see the light and disperse?
ReplyDeleteI read that wrong as ABBA and I was about to tell you they dispersed year's ago (but they do come back in an AI format at the ABBA Museum in Stockhome where they perform a concert with the most famous song's and some one's that wasnt all that famous I havent been but my neighbour's went (as a family) and had a great sing song Reg said it was like the Blitz but how would he know he's only in his 50's even if he is from Hounslow!
DeleteI wish there was a lot more on this web page about pop music and by that i mean the best pop EVAH which was the 60's when the Beatle's and the Stone's was at there best