Huge poll breakthrough for the SNP as they surge to their highest regional list vote with Survation for THREE YEARS

My latest constituency profile for The National is Ayr, and it can be read HERE.

WAA WAA BRAHP AHOOGAH SCREEEEEEEECH - "All right, all right, you've made your point, SETTLED WILL KLAXON, we can all see there's yet another poll from gold standard pollster Ipsos showing that Scotland demands to become an independent country"

My latest constituency profile for The National is Argyll & Bute, and it can be read HERE.

Greens OVERTAKE Labour in sensational Britain-wide YouGov poll - and SNP have commanding lead in Scotland

In the second half of this video, I also take a look at the story in the Daily Record about a nameless former member of the Alba Party's Finance and Audit Committee, who suggests the party wasted £50,000 on air travel expenses for Alex Salmond between 2022 and 2024.  As a former member of the Finance and Audit Committee myself, I reveal who the source most reminds me of and consider what that person's agenda might be.

My series of Holyrood constituency profiles for The National has continued today with Angus South, which can be read HERE.

Alba's self-appointed Continuity Junta is accused of "lying" about its claim to be willing to accept liability

The dam has well and truly burst with Alba - over the last few days I've been receiving emails containing nuggets of information from multiple different sources within the party, including some I haven't been in contact with before.  Patience has snapped right across Alba's ranks, and people just want the full truth to come out.

Some of the emails have been harder to interpret than others.  There was one a few hours ago accusing the rebels (ie. the wannabe Junta of Hendry, Blackley, MacNeil and Sheridan) of lying about their willingness to take the party's mammoth liabilities off the hands of other NEC members.  A quote was supplied from the Junta's promotional website, but initially I couldn't work out what the lie was.  However, I think I've belatedly twigged what is being referred to (correct me if I'm wrong).  Here is the quote -

 

"The following members of the National Executive Committee (“NEC”) of the Alba Party (an unincorporated political party registered with the Electoral Commission, reference PP12700), namely, Angus Brendan MacNeil, Christina Hendry, Suzanne Blackley and Tommy Sheridan (the “interim leadership”) hereby guarantee that they will fulfil all of the functions, duties and responsibilities of the NEC as specified in paragraph 7 of the Constitution of the Alba Party until such time as the National Conference of the Alba Party elect a new NEC; and that the following members of the NEC shall hereby immediately resign and vacate their Alba Party office, namely, [presumably you Kenny and Neale but you will have to insert the names of the other existing NEC members who like you want to fold the party and do not want to stay on and fight]; and that the interim leadership undertakes to indemnify all NEC members against any liabilities that may arise from their decisions and assumption of NEC responsibilities commencing from the date this guarantee and indemnity is signed; but excluding any liabilities that have arisen or been intimated before the date this guarantee and indemnity was signed.

Signed on X date

By the interim leadership

Signed on X date

By retiring members of the NEC

Note: The document invited the outgoing leadership to insert the names of those who wished to resign. The brackets above reproduce the original text exactly as submitted."

I presume the point is that the Junta are only promising to cover liabilities incurred from the date on which the agreement is signed, which is utterly useless to the current leadership because it excludes all of the £200,000 liabilities identified by Corri Wilson in the secret audio recording that was passed to Scot Goes Pop on Saturday.  All of the current NEC members would still be left personally liable for those, with all of the consequent dangers that Shannon Cullen might not be able to afford to get her nails done.

I must say it's also bizarre that the Junta are repeatedly accusing the MacAskill leadership of breaching the party constitution, given that they themselves want to drive a coach and horses through the constitution by getting the NEC to unilaterally hand the party over to an unelected "transitional leadership".  Having sat on Alba's Constitution Review Group for those few traumatic months in 2024, I can say with some authority that there's no constitutional provision that would allow anything even remotely like that to happen.

244 people have pledged loyalty so far to the Alba Continuity Junta - and only three of them are Abdul Majid

As regular viewers of my YouTube channel will recall, the little-known Alba businessman Abdul Majid has an exciting habit of doing things in bulk.  In 2023, he was one of the five clear beneficiaries (along with Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, Christina Hendry, Hamish Vernal and Marjorie Ellis Thompson) of the blatant rigging of the Alba NEC elections.  He topped the first preference vote on the male ballot by an insanely wide margin, and was purportedly the first choice of an extraordinary 34% of Alba conference delegates despite having barely troubled the scorer the previous year.  

Today, though, we must salute him for his tremendous sense of restraint.  So far, 244 "people" have signed a pledge swearing loyalty to the quarter-Trotskyite, quarter-superior-DNA "Junta" that is improbably seeking to reanimate Alba's corpse, in spite of the "insurmountable" £200,000 liabilities revealed by Corri Wilson in a secret audio recording leaked to Scot Goes Pop two days ago.  And of those 244 signatories, a mere three are Abdul Majid, if we're charitable enough to assume he's only been signing under his own name.

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As Alba members ponder where that lost £200,000 actually went, here's a little thought for the day (click on the video if it doesn't auto-play).

https://t.co/0SiUKihhcA

What’s going on here then ? pic.twitter.com/j5J7DZoPvx

— Truthisoutthere (@Truthisout3011) October 24, 2025

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Just a reminder that I'm continuing to write daily constituency profiles for The National - the two in today's paper are Almond Valley and Angus North & Mearns.  Unless I'm looking in the wrong place, I don't think the latest batch are on the main part of the website, but if you're a subscriber to the digital edition (which is identical to the print edition), you can find them there.

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.

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."