Profound shock in Alba ranks after Susan MacAskill, the spouse of party leader Kenny MacAskill, 'likes' a Facebook post threatening physical violence against the person who leaked the audio recording of Corri Wilson to Scot Goes Pop

I was contacted earlier today by a member of the Alba Party, who I think was genuinely quite shocked that a controversial fellow member and convicted criminal called Dave Llewellyn had posted on Facebook to threaten physical violence against the person (and I genuinely have no idea who that person is, by the way) who made an audio recording of Corri Wilson revealing that Alba has £200,000 liabilities, and which was then leaked to Scot Goes Pop.  The Facebook post also called me the C-word (which I've partly blanked out below).  However, there was an even greater level of shock that the threatening post was liked by none other than Susan MacAskill - the wife of the party leader.  Llewellyn dares people to "call the polis" on him, and frankly he should count himself very lucky if nobody heeds that advice.

Incidentally, although it's rather sweet of Iain Cameron to imply that I'm having some sort of role in the destruction of the Alba Party, the objective reality is that Kenny MacAskill, Corri Wilson and others are very deliberately and determinedly destroying it themselves, and they didn't require any cue from me to start that process.  That makes it hard to understand why Dave Llewellyn is so upset about the leak to Scot Goes Pop, because from what I can gather he is part of a 'realist' faction that accepts what Kenny MacAskill is doing is unavoidable.  The leak actually assists MacAskill in that task, because it confronts people with the full extent of the party's liabilities, which after all is the main reason Alba will have to be dissolved.

When I was expelled from Alba on ridiculous trumped-up charges just over a year ago, I made abundantly clear that the loyalty I previously had to the party completely ceased at that point, and I don't see how anyone can realistically have any complaints about that, given the mind-boggling number of people in the Alba elite (both past and present) who were involved in the malicious action against me in some shape or form: Alex Salmond himself, Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, Corri Wilson, Chris McEleny, Hamish Vernal, Shannon Donoghue, Chris Cullen, Suzanne Blackley, Daniel Jack, Robert Slavin, Yvonne Ridley, Josh Robertson, Robert Reid, Christina Hendry, Jackie Reid, Geraldine Harron, Debbie Ewen and John Caddis.  (And that's not even an exhaustive list.)  I would have thought it's a statement of the obvious that I now believe that it would be in the best interests of the Scottish independence movement if Alba were to depart the stage permanently - the corruption and nepotism just runs far too deep, and I don't see how that can ever be rectified to make Alba a force for good.  

I do know some good people who remain in Alba and who take a different view and want the party to continue.  I suspect that even they will eventually look back on Alba's destruction as a positive moment, because it will probably lead to them pursuing the same objectives under a different political branding, which will almost by definition be less toxic than Alba's.