...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 !
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
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.
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