Apart from the shocking membership fee news, which Alba members already know about (as long as they've been checking their emails closely enough), this video also contains the latest gossip from my occasional Alba source about Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh and the ranking of Alba list candidates.
Scot Goes Pop: The Final Fundraiser is underway (you can read more about why I anticipate it being the final one HERE) and it's already a bit over halfway towards its target figure of £1700. A million thanks to everyone who has donated so far. Card donations can be made at the GoFundMe page HERE, or if you prefer to cut out the middle-man, direct PayPal donations can be made to my PayPal email address, which is: jkellysta@yahoo.co.uk
How many members are with ALBA?
ReplyDeleteYouGov Westminster voting intention, field work 25 - 26 Jan.
ReplyDeleteUK headlines; RefUK 4% lead over Labour, -1% week on week.
Scottish sub-sample (211)
Con 8%, Lab 13%, LibDem 13%, SNP 35%, RefUK 16%, Green 15%, others 1%.
An improbably high result for the Greens.
Just for laughs, plugged into the Scottish Parliament Swingometer model.
Seat projection; SNP 61 (-3), Green 17 (+9), Greens level with RefUK as second largest party.
Once mighty Labour consigned to 5th place.
Alba is now just an irrelevant joke of a party.
ReplyDeleteProbably always was, to be honest.
Maybe time to just ignore it completely?
In other news, Farage has said in a TV interview that the male nurse murdered in cold blood by ICE was "Openly carrying a gun".
Farage is now so wedded to every single lie coming out of Trump's administration, that he has abandoned factual truth altogether.
Farage STILL backs Trump's Fascist Regime and would just love to replicate it over here.
Do not let him.
Farage is just a patsy to Trump and corporate business
ReplyDelete8.06pm - He certainly is but he does know when to use a full stop unlike you.
DeleteAll Nigel Farage has ever wanted is a pongée tennis coat so he can mix with his social superiors at aristocratic events. Like Trump, Farage has money but no style, class or dignity. He thinks a tennis coat [definitely NOT his trademark Del Boy UKIP spiv coat] will give him the class he craves. Should we club together and get him one from Avenue Montaigne? Or not...
DeleteAlba are not now and never were a political party, they are and were exactly the same as Reform UK, they took on defectors from the SNP who stole SNP votes, and one of them is still in our parliament (Ash Regan) who has no moral right to be there, so what's the difference between Alba and Reform UK ? None.
ReplyDeleteAnon @9.55am - who are these people who defected from the SNP to Reform UK? Was Farage one of them?
DeleteOn the “stopped clock” principle, Starmer does something smart.
ReplyDeleteBut making a trade deal with China will invoke the wrath of Trump. Look at what happened when Mark Carney did the same. Trump took to social media, and referred to Carney as Governor, yet again implying that the US was going to annex Canada. US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent merely threatened to annex the province of Alberta (how generous of him).
The usual suspects will appear on the front page of The Telegraph claiming that your BYD car, Hauwei solar panels, and Honor smartphone are spying on you. They may well be, but they wouldn’t be alone.
Too many of our politicians are bought, and paid for by the AngloAmerican permanent state. This isn’t a chauvinistic, party issue, they’re all putting their personal interests above those of their constituents.
Q. Why can Westminster parliamentarians visit the US on all expenses paid, two week trips while Parliament is in session without declaring it in their Register of Interests?
A. Because membership of the British American Parliamentary Group exempts them from declaring gratuities from the US State Department.
The BAPG has a pepper-corn, annual membership fee, and doesn’t publish a list of membership (only office holders).
Stephen Gethins has picked an unfortunate time to decamp to Holyrood. Just as his services to spout State Department talking points at Westminster become needed more than ever. With Reform UK on the brink of overtaking the SNP in terms of MPs, perhaps Gethins’ opportunities to remind us that; “Russia bad. China bad” will be restricted. Mind you, he never had any difficulty “catching the eye” of ultra-Zionist Speaker of the House, Lindsay Hoyle before.
More in Common, Westminster voting intention, field work 23 - 24 Jan.
ReplyDeleteUK headlines; RefUK 7% lead over Labour (last week, 10% lead over Tories).
On the Wiki, best fit curves, Labour have “hockey sticked”, RefUK continues precipitous decline, Tories & Green enjoy slow, steady climb.
An odd time for Tory defectors to RefUK, but they show the same aptitude for politics as they did for the economy when they were in power.
Scottish sub-sample (111)
Con 10%, Lab 14%, LibDem 11%, RefUK 25%, Green 5%, SNP 34%.
So Flynn is spending money on a trailer carrying a billboard saying " gone in 100 days"
ReplyDeleteand on social media
the SNP are saying " At the Scottish elections on 7th May, the people of Scotland will be handed the power to sack Keir Starmer and choose a fresh start with independence by voting SNP."
What utter bullshit.
The people of Scotland voted against Brexit - we got it.
The people of Scotland voted for Indyref2 at multiple elections - we didn't get it.
For Scottish independence it matters not who the English PM is. Why is a party that is supposed to be for Scotland and its independence wanting rid of an English PM. They come and go and the answer to the Scotland question from Westminster is always no and get back in your box.
Just how does voting SNP get independence?
A de facto referendum is required but the devolutionist SNP voted against it.
SNP deceit continues in to 2026.
Never fear - Liberate Scotland are here!
DeleteI always thought you were a British troll IFS but you're just an idiot that hates everybody.
DeleteAnon troll at 12.21am - you don't think very well. Anons like you have proven that by your posts over the last 6 years. You seem to like living in a Westminster colony. Sure you aint a Britnat?
DeleteTalking about unaffordability, the latest update for that pig-in-a-poke white elephant of a nuclear power station at Hinkley Point is that it will not be finished until at least 2031, a massive 6 years late and at a total cost of a truly ridiculous £46 Billion which is a humungous £28 Billion overspend!
ReplyDeleteIt will be the most expensively over-budget nuclear power plant ever built on this planet and, even when operational, will produce hugely expensive power compared to renewable energy.
And the unionist parties still witter on about building even more of these plants.........
One way of losing membership is doubling your costs. Death by a thousand price rises!
ReplyDeleteAs a certain Alba VIP said, Pencil me in for love.
DeleteI see Farage wants to be Jasper Badun.
ReplyDeleteI see Nad and Doris wants to be Liz Trash
DeleteMassive gap between John Swinney and the rest, when Scots asked by Survation this month who would make the best next Scottish FM:
ReplyDeleteSwinney 49.5% support
Sarwar 20.1%
Findlay 15.3%
Cole Hamilton 9%
Offord 6.2%
Looks like Swinney's steady hand has done the trick with voters.
He is so far ahead, it is not even close.
Great to see Offord where he deserves to be, an also-ran.
You need a steady hand when you are doing all the redacting Swinney does.
DeleteIt's a JOKE poll - Swinney is the only one who claims he wants Scotland to be independent out of that lot. I mean I would even vote for Swinney if given that choice.
At their high water mark Alba had one MSP before she left the party. That puts them at the same level of success as the Pensioner's Party, although their MSP actually got elected by running for the Pensioner's Party.
ReplyDeleteNoticed the Sun had an article on 24th Jan headed 'Alex Salmond's niece bumped off Alba candidate list as party leader to stand in key seat', so MacAskill replacing Christina Hendry as top candidate for the North East seat. Does this mean that a recce of the North East constituency showed that the 'Salmond blood' candidate didn't look to be popular but MacAskill is? Where ARE they popular?
ReplyDeleteLabour Party reject WASPI compensation scheme.
ReplyDeleteStatement made to a near empty House of Commons. No sign of Flynn or any SNP MP - correction - Kirsty Blackman has turned up. I commend Blackman for making the effort but as ever the SNP will be ignored.
The SNP should be focussing on getting independence not trying to make England's system work better.
Labour blamed the Tories and Lib Dems. The Tories and Libdems blamed Labour. Tory quoting all the Labour words made in opposition supporting a payout.
There is not one English party worthy of any vote. I would have liked to have seen zero Labour MSPs after the May election but sadly due to the regional list some of the useless Britnat snakes will slither in there. Amazingly some of the WASPI women will still vote for one of these English parties in May.
Plenty of money in the coffers for two aircraft carriers and supporting a genocide in Israel.
I mean Starmer didn't even ask Trump if he could have some of the money made from hijacking oil tankers across the world.
The UK is a shithouse run by shitty politicians. Scotland is a colony and Westminster are the owners.
Independence is essential not trying to get rid of Starmer.
Private SCHOOLS in Scotland are an English import designed to ensure the children were trained to be English and loyal to London. Think Tony Blair at Fettes College in Edinburgh - the ultimate House Jock.
ReplyDeleteImagine paying a fortune to send your children to institutions that will sexually, emotionally, physically abuse them and worse of all brainwash them in to thinking the British Empire was a great thing to be proud of.
How can you double the membership fee for a political party which has lost almost all it's elected representatives?
ReplyDeleteSome people can imagine living on a flood plain. I can't and won't.
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