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."
The mask is off. Headline in this morning’s The Mail on Sunday; Foreign-born Voters Stole By-election Blasts Farage. The exact quote from the frog faced fascist on which the headline is based; “Reform UK won the Gorton & Denton by-election among British-born voters.”.
ReplyDeleteOf course these Reform UK high heid yins almost invariably have bolt-holes outwith the UK, and Farage has a “foreign-born” partner.
We ken whit the dug whistle really means. Brown and black skinned people aren’t really British.
Isabel Oakeshott, partner of Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice recently said it would be preposterous for anyone to consider her to be Somali if she had been born in Somalia.
Opinium, Westminster voting intention, sampling sits astride Gorton & Denton by-election, sample population 2,050.
ReplyDeleteUK headlines: RefUK 12% lead, +4% on last Opinium poll three weeks ago. Variance attributable to 5% collapse in Labour vote.
Scottish sub-sample is typical unreliable nonsense from Opinium.
This morning on the BBC, Laura Kuenssberg interviews Labour Defence Minister, John Healey. Healey is a member of the Jewish Labour Movement (despite not being Jewish). For balance, Kuenssberg interviews Shadow Defence Minister, and deranged Zionist, Priti Patel (who was sacked for visiting Israel while holding position in the Foreign Office, without telling said institution). Another timely reminder of BBC fair, and balanced coverage, and the reason I don’t pay TV Tax.
ReplyDeleteThe way forward for Scottish independence is a de facto referendum. It was the way forward in 2020 when I first posted it on SGP and it's still the way forward 6 years later. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just plain daft or a Britnat.
ReplyDeletePinning your hopes on Westminster giving away its favourite possession - Scotland - by agreeing to a referendum is just plain daft. England can't afford to lose Scotland.
The SNP have wasted many years that were great opportunities for independence and are still doing it.
Note to the dumplings who say you are diverting/off topic etc it still says SGP is a pro Independence blog at the top of the page.
Let’s hope the Cypriots kick the British out of their bases in Cyprus. Cyprus under attack because of Starmer. When Scotland gets independence there should be no partition of Scotland or English bases in Scotland. Cyprus got independence in 1960 but Westminster wanted to keep bases as part of the deal. Kick them out.
DeleteIndep for Scotland March 1 2026 @ 9.30am - there were no great opportunities for independence because there has been no time in the last 10 years when Scotland had enough bucks to sustain its day to day vital requirements - plus have the guaranteed billions required to undertake a transition to independence. Scraping by on the basis of a 50+1 and assuming that the country would accept that as the basis for the massive turbulence and economic insecurity of independence - without billions being available to guarantee sustainability and stability even to start with - as well as not having guaranteed non-detrimental agreement with rUK that they will not set out to economically and politically scupper Scotland from the get go - is a risk beyond which the non-independence supporting population and vital institutions would be willing to accept. We need the country with us or else it's pointless and nothing but a wee stick the fingers up to Westminster 15 minutes of fame gesture. Different thing if the country indicated it was gagging for independence and would get right behind making a success of independence - but that ain't going to ever happen unless there is support from at least 70% MINIMUM of the population and institutions confirming they want to go for it. The responsibility for achieving independence does not lie with the SNP, Alba, any political party - it's about the rest of the country out there deciding and fully declaring they're for it and will dedicate themselves 100% to working for it. That has never been the case so far. Evidence also that all of Scotland knew that Alex was allegedly totally for independence - and knowing that - the country didn't rush to vote for either Alex nor Alba. If a mass of the country wanted independence - nothing would have stopped a tsunami voting for Alex or Alba. That didn't happen. Nothing to do with court cases or any of that baggage because it's only in the Yes bubble that that is of any interest to anybody. Country just didn't go for it. There's fantasy and there's reality.
DeleteAnon Britnat at 8.42am - try a few paragraph breaks next time you post a colonial rant.
Delete8.42am must be KC. Norway the word he never uses.
DeleteThere is colonialism and there is independence.
There is freedom and there is subjugation.
There is liberty and there is subservience.
There is saying no to wars and there is Starmer.
There is running your own financial affairs and there is begging for crumbs from your master.
There are house jocks who just love being on their knees - that’s you KC.
Knowing all this was coming down the line, did they still go ahead with their various online hustings?
ReplyDeleteMM - 'do all that Braveheart stuff' - the cheap pretendy symbolic nostalgia history wheeze to part the malleable and non-discerning from their money. The ultimate cheap trick - still practiced by some other bloviating braveheart independistas waxing lyrical about William Wallace and Robert Bruce and adding the name Alex Salmond to their narratives - which is the cheapest and most cynical deliberate disgusting ploy of the lot. Daylight robbery and knowingly taking huge advantage of the least academically or intellectually gifted fodder- and don't they know it. Bruce and his brothers knew how to do accounting and grab assets for their personal benefit and their asset grabbing was far from being restricted to within these islands. Sickening how to use people strategy.
ReplyDeleteWas the push for having the SNP and any other indy parties to form an electoral coalition with Alba, for this notional supermajority - really just a wheeze to pool financial resources enough to cover Alba's financial needs and end up with others being responsible for the known Alba /Salmond known financial liabilities coming down the track? As opposed to it being a real independence strategy?
ReplyDeleteAlex must have known that his jaunts to events in other countries etc would be a massive expenditure for Alba - with such events not going to result in gaining Alba any electoral advantage in Scotland at all. Unless Alba were not obligated to foot the bill for these activities because how could such a small party be expected to afford them compared to the privileges he accrued when in the post of First Minister officially representing Scotland. These engagements were of no benefit to Alba - but certainly would have been for Mr Salmond himself if his intention was to market himself as some kind of global influential player still on the big stage. These must have been expensive forays - unless Mr Salmond was operating as an autonomous businessman and so met expenses himself to that end.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Alex was signed up to one of those hire a speaker agencies where he would have been paid as an individual for hire.
ReplyDeleteAlex Salmond = Giant ego, it's all he ever was
ReplyDeleteDr Jim at 11.08am I doubt your focus was ever independence. Your focus is more your unrequited love for the non binary Sturgeon.
DeleteThe trips abroad for Alex and Tasmina were paid for by Alba. And remember Tasmina Always went with Alex. The purpose was to ‘look for work’ hence the show they briefly had on the Turkish channel, to boost Tasmina’s profile so she could get speaker spots and very importantly give them an excuse to be together.
ReplyDeleteThey spent an incredible amount because they liked the high life.
maybe Alba could get a loan off Peter Murrell
ReplyDelete- he's got a few bob stashed