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If that doesn't take the biscuit, what does? If they can even afford biscuits. I suppose a Garibaldi would be out of the question.
ReplyDeleteMay will be the last time Alba will even be worth noticing. After their non showing in the results I guess they’ll shuffle off into nothingness. Same goes for Corbyn’s non-event of a party at the next GE.
ReplyDeleteThe “problem” with Corbyn’s party is splitting the vote between him and labour, making a Farage led biggest party a real possibility at the next G E. It could be of real benefit to the Indy cause if properly exploited, but Swinney has recently exercised some really bad judgement, so not holding my breath. His “SNP votes only” rule was and remains astonishingly stupid.
DeleteAch, there's always the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
ReplyDeleteQuite so. Still the ruling party of Venezuela, and with Trump's apparent blessing.
DeleteAch, there's always the Conservative and Unionist Party.
DeleteShould FIFA ask for their nonsensical peace prize back?
ReplyDeleteWhat sort of moronic party would get in a dispute with its own auditors ? Take it ALBA will be going to an auditor from manchester next to a kebab shop next year to get an audit then? (if they still exist)
ReplyDeleteAlba were never more than Alex Salmond's attempt at a revenge vehicle to get himself back into his beloved Westminster and still his supporters refuse to see it
ReplyDeleteAlba stopped having political relevance when Salmond decided to sit out Rutherglen. The project failed badly after that. Once momentum is lost with emerging parties, the whole thing unravels very quickly.
ReplyDeleteYup - Rutherglen was the 2nd biggest political miscalculation of the century so far I’d say (after douchebag Cameron’s decision to hold an EU referendum).
DeleteIt's probably already been covered on previous blogs, but do we know what the reason for the decision was? Rutherglen looked like the perfect opportunity for them to break through. Even coming second would have made a splash.
DeleteNah, choosing Nicola as his successor was obviously the worst mistake of all. He said so himself, and he was right.
DeleteAlba's no more to blame than the SSP or the Scottish Libertarians (both are still "going strong"…) for the sorry state of the Yes movement (and vote) in these terrible times for the Union.
That responsibility lies in the hands of the SNP leadership who marched us up the hill, not for independence, but just more of this, every time.
Ahahaha. Conduct Christopher eh! The scummy fucker had a brass neck to pull me up for my conduct? Tick tock Tasmina.... they deserve all thats coming to them.
ReplyDeleteInsider says: We wonder if an Alba VIP with high hair might have been seen on a train from Glasgow Central last week, getting off at Girvan to be met by welcoming friends. Just wondering.
DeleteA typically Newsquest clickbait headline on the National website about the Scottish Government having questions to answer over the use of Wick airfield by US planes on their way to apprehend the rogue oil tanker.
ReplyDeleteDefence is of course fully reserved to Westminster. I doubt John Swinney was even informed.
maybe the problem was Alba were using the same accountants as the SNP
ReplyDelete"it was resting in my account ..."
Or maybe the same accountant as 'Scottish' Labour, Reform Ltd or the Conservative group.
DeleteFor many, many years, the collapse of legacy media, and the rise of new media has been predicted, with very little empirical evidence of this actually happening.
ReplyDeletePublic attitudes to the genocide in Gaza, and now the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, demonstrate a sizeable disconnect between the citizens, and the state, and its approved media.
The latest act of Trump directed piracy off the coast of Scotland, has been met with sycophantic applause in Westminster, and MSM. Folk can see through this. Our political class are craven to American hegemony because they were bought decades ago.
Expect a crack down on alternative media, and probably a BBC funding model moved over to direct taxation (or complete dissolution of the BBC under RefUK).
The crack down has already begun with numerous British journalists arrested for telling the truth about Gaza.
More in Common MRP model, Westminster seat projection. Headlined for January, but field work 27 Nov - 16 Dec.
ReplyDeleteRefUK outright majority of 112. 60% of seats on 31% of votes rivalling 2024 for disproportionality.
First-past-the-post is looking increasingly anachronistic in the 21st century.
Labour deservedly reduced to 85 seats.
Electoral map of Scotland appears to show:
LibDems on 6 seats, RefUK on an unlikely 9 seats, Labour and the Tories on one each.
Sample population for whole of Britain of 16,083 is at the extreme limit of what could be expected to produce a remotely plausible MRP prediction.
Ironically Reform support PR (I guess that could change if they suddenly become the biggest party under FPTP)
DeleteIt already has changed - they've gone pretty cold on it, even if they haven't officially ditched the policy yet.
DeleteRe the lying Trump account of the illegal shooting of the women driving her car in the states. The ICE operator was probably poorly trained - no other ICE operative had cause to fear and upholster their guns. Could have shot the tyres. After shooting the lady the car drove at speed and could have killed a pedestrian. Don’t visit the USA until Trump Vance and co are long gone is my advise.
ReplyDeleteshe seems like a silly narcissistic virtue signalling old trout who didn't seem to think the law applied to her because of "the feelz" or the usual "things in my head with no relation to reality." She seemed to be trying to stop the cops doing their job by blocking them, because ... ?
Delete"illegal aliens matter"
and now her kids are orphans. Because "mommy was stupid" and didn't care about them, at least not compared to the internal folly of some cause she was into.
- I am surprised the yank cop didn't empty the magazine, reload and have another go. Cowboys. But that is exactly why you need to obey these itchy trigger finger types.
If she wanted to get out of there, not arrested, not shot, she could have tried to reverse away from the agents.
Why do so many fat middle aged women, infected by the disease of feminism, allow themselves to become footsoldiers for such unworthy causes, whether it is foreign criminals, or transgenderism?
An utterly shameful tweet by Campbell taking the side of Trump's ICE thug that shot the woman 3 times in the face. Wings now endorsing murder by Trump's very own storm troopers.
ReplyDeleteThe SNP are sitting at between 30-35% in the polls.
ReplyDeleteIf the Holyrood voting system is as many people say a reasonably accurate proportional voting system then just how do SNP supporters expect the SNP to get a majority of MSPs?
It seems to me either the " experts " who say the system is a reasonably accurate proportional voting system are wrong or Swinney is just an SNP charalatan selling a load of nonsense when he punts an SNP majority of MSPs will guarantee Indyref2. If it is indeed a reasonably accurate proportional voting system then the SNP will have to get near 50% of the vote to get a majority of MSPs. If you think the SNP can get near 50% then why not go for a de facto referendum on independence.
The truth is that Swinney is a devolutionist and a charlatan. Worse than that he is a pal of Trump and sucks up to Starmer as well.
Charlatan-ifs favourite word. Needs a thesaurus. Still as one of the albanists in disguise the story line re ALBA has to be changed.
DeleteKind of looks as if the anti-Swinney/SNP supposed independence supporters just don't have the guts to all-in go for independence using their usual deflection excuse of 'the SNP don't want independence' moan groan whine any pretend excuse will do. They rant on about the SNP avoiding collaboration with other indy parties - but you get Liberate Scotland people on Prism saying 'We have to persuade Scots to damage the SNP further'. If anybody are shooting any prospect of independence in the foot - it's the pretendy continuation of declaring they want an independence majority - when these parties know THEY can't make that majority happen and they just want to damage the party that could help them get that majority. Until these self-interested pretendy advocates of independence grow up - pretending these wee parties can enable an independence majority is a deliberate hypothetical red herring carrot on a stick. They are self-obsessed bitter wee time wasters who hail your Wings man their hero stuck in the past over-inflated worship of memories of 2014 and from which they can't bring themselves to move forward from 'what's in it for me, for me, for me'. Rhetorical chloroform from 2014 Brigadoon.
DeleteAnon at 10.42pm - you are a plain and simple numpty.
DeleteAnon at 5.44am - no idea why you needed to stay up all night to post that irrelevant and deranged rant under my initial post. Like the numpty at 10.42pm you ignored the key point in my post.
Not one of you numpties can ever explain why the SNP did not go for a de facto referendum. The SNP drones (also known as nicophants ) and the Big Ginger Dug were all for a de facto when Sturgeon punted it then forgot about it when the SNP dropped it. These people do not and cannot think for themselves but they are overjoyed when trolling independence supporters. 10.42pm and 5.44am are simply (simple) SNP party supporters not independence supporters. All they care about is the party - reminds me of CCP members.
As Trump and his murderous ICE Nazi Stormtroopers turn America into a truly fascist rogue state, destroying everything and everyone who dares to stand against them, don't kid yourself that similar could not happen over here under Trump-Clone Farage and his band of racist fascist human trash.
ReplyDeleteIt could.
Reform are no more and no less than MAGA-Lite.
The maga lite will soon turn into maga heavy when elected. We needed independence to be free from this incoming storm of fascism but people like you supported the devolutionist leadership in the SNP and are responsible for the current situation.
DeleteOne of these days you're going to have to stop hiding behind regurgitating your infantile 'devolutionist leadership in the SNP' are 'responsible for the current situation' deflection tactic. The truth is you don't try to get yourselves elected, you just want to do a Trump and take over somewhere else ie the SNP because you're not interested in even trying to get yourselves elected to step up to the big day job plate because you're like all the old complaints about Labour - you think you're 'entitled' and that the country should bend to whatever you want. You're no different from Farage and Trump. Always taking the lazy route - blaming somebody else but never stepping up to the plate and engaging with the truly hard sleeves rolled up taking accountability for the truly hard work stuff yourselves. You don't talk anything visionary about independence, you just wimp about the SNP so you're just doing the Trump I'm a victim poor me performative playbook - only you started it before even he did! You're the biggest whiners in the UK.
DeleteWhy didn't the voters vote en masse for you at all the past elections you stood for? That's the relevant question surely. You don't seem to be doing anything different than you did then - you know, the down with the SNP and its leadership same stuff. Are you sure that pinning your hopes on pending court cases and depending on an SNP sinkhole is going to gain you anything that will convince people that independence is your real aim or intention? Your waters are a bit muddy so far.
DeleteLooks very much like the only political party in the whole of the UK to successfully not only keep Reform out of power for the next few years, but also keep them as an isolated minority group in their parliament, will be the good old SNP.
DeleteScotland is very very lucky to have such a strong left-of-centre bulwark against Farage and his fascists.
If Alba are struggling financially - will they just run under the umbrella of Liberate Scotland - although I have no idea if the other small indy parties are standing on their own or under a Liberate Scotland entry? There was a rumour of another indy party going to stand but it was an unsubstantiated rumour. Presumably it's past time when all parties for HR 2026 have number of candidates registered - or is there still an open deadline?
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