The sickening hypocrisy of Sara Salyers

I was half-thinking of making a video in direct response to the unhinged personal attack Sara Salyers of "Salvo" launched against me earlier today, but in spite of the character limit on Twitter, I was able to fit most of what I wanted to say into the tweet below.  (By contrast, Salyers' own attack tweet had busted the character limit many, many times over, which presumably means she has no scruples whatever about sending a regular subscription fee to the far-right Elon Musk.)

Was Salyers "a typical mooth doing the British state's job for it" when she stayed silent on the good independence supporters (and I'm simply one of dozens) who were trampled over by the Alba leadership? On her own logic I suppose she must have been. What a pathetic hypocrite. https://t.co/nRkd8SsRoe

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) February 22, 2026

I must say it's something of a relief to finally have such a demonstrably strong reason for not taking one of the noisiest figures from the nuttier fringes of our movement seriously anymore.  I've had to bite my tongue any number of times over the years when people have invited me to treat Salyers and her batty prospectus as some sort of passport to the promised land.  You'll have to forgive me, but as a baptised Roman Catholic with ancestry that is two-thirds Irish and one-eighth French-Canadian, I have no great interest in Salyers' preposterous, offensive and quasi-religious belief that Scotland's right to choose its own constitutional future is not granted by modern concepts of democracy and international law, but instead by the almost random existence of a racist, bigoted 17th Century document that spends half its time wittering on about the supposedly self-evident evils of "Papists".  It really isn't that far from Salyers' belief-system to Benjamin Netanyahu's conviction that Israel must rule the West Bank because it was promised to them in a sacred book 3000 years ago.

Incidentally, my message to Salyers above is much the same as to anyone else who claims that nobody is allowed to criticise the Alba Party because it is nominally "pro-independence".  OK, if you spoke out at the time against the McEleny purges of good independence supporters, if you took to social media to denounce the Alba leadership's appalling treatment of independence warriors such as Eva Comrie and Denise Findlay, if you wrote to Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh to tell her in no uncertain terms how outraged you were by her sinister actions against the impeccably pro-Yes Alan Harris and Morgwn Davies simply because they had insisted on due process in Colin White's disciplinary case, then fine, you have credibility on this matter, you deserve a hearing, and I'll give you one.  But if you instead sat back and allowed all of that to happen without comment while continuing to mindlessly applaud the perpetrators, then I strongly suggest you stop being such a ridiculous hypocrite and just pipe down.

You can see the video that triggered Salyers so much below -