Corri Wilson, straight-talking, totally unfiltered, on why the Alba Party must be dissolved - the full transcript of the secret audio recording: "Nobody will vote for us, nobody has even heard of us, we have no activists, we're totally broke, anyone trying to rescue the party would have to take on insurmountable £200,000 liabilities, let's get out while we still can!"

I've been sent an audio recording of Corri Wilson, matriarch of Alba's Corri Nostra faction and also the party's "Director of Operations", addressing what appears to be some sort of internal party meeting.  Beyond that I've no idea what the context is, although I presume her comments were not previously in the public domain, because a) they're fairly incendiary, and b) if they were already public knowledge there'd have been no point in sending me the recording.  Here's the full transcript - 

"It's not just the finance, I mean we've obviously had the McEleny struggle for a year, and it is far from over as well.  The reality is we have few active LACUs and very little activist activity.  We have been, due to all the briefing against the party, which you were informed about on 10th January, we have been haemorrhaging members, and the majority of our members pay £1 a month, so you can do the maths yourselves.  There's just no money coming in.  We live in Twitter-land, where thanks to the negative press we are just no longer rated.  

The ordinary folk on the street havnae heard of us.  There's too many people don't even know Alba exists.  They just don't.  We exist in a bubble, but they don't know we exist.  Wednesday's poll showed us at two per cent.  We need to be realistic.  TWO PER CENT.  We have insurmountable liabilities, and the reality for a Holyrood campaign is we've got no activists, limited impact.  The social media campaign is absolutely hampered by all the negative social media, and you know, Kenny met with you guys on 10th February, laid out the situation, spoke about the briefing against him and the party, and said at that point, either we get together, get behind and do all that Braveheart stuff, or it's going to have an impact, and here we are.  

The reality is every single one of us who has stood as a potential candidate, you're standing for a leadership position, and as a leader, sometimes you have to make difficult decisions, and quite frankly we have to act responsibly.  You need to remove your heart, I want to stand, we all want to stand, we all want independence.  For someone who has spent a year, working night and day to keep this party alive, this is gutting, right?  But the responsible thing to do is to get out when we can, holding our heads up high.  The reality is Kenny's spoke about people saying if you want to come forward, and he'll sign over the liabilities.  I have done a quick calculation on these liabilities, and what you're signing in for is nearly £200,000.  That's what you'd be signing up for.  Thanks."