Thursday, April 14, 2022

So what WAS the thinking behind the SNP's notorious "and for no other party" leaflet?

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I'd just like to draw your attention to yesterday's column in The National by the chair of the Alba Party, Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, in ...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Alba's allure affirmed: Alex Salmond's new pro-independence party storms to best poll result since 2021 election in BMG belter

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I'm not entirely sure when the Herald published them, and an online search has drawn a blank, but it's been brought to my attention ...
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Monday, April 11, 2022

Impudence! Betrayers! Puffins! TIME!!!!

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Yes folks, it's a blogpost title in the inimitable style of Peter A Bell (well, inimitable except in the sense that I've just imitat...
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Sunday, April 10, 2022

BMG poll is a big wake-up call to independence supporters: we can't afford to muck around at the local elections by not ranking all pro-indy candidates

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The last set of Scottish local elections five years ago heralded a downturn in the SNP's fortunes and a boost for both the Tories and La...
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Friday, April 8, 2022

Question about the local election voting system: "Should I rank all (or most) of the candidates?" Answer: YES, especially if you want to stop the Tories

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In the wake of my April Fool (which alarmingly about 10-20% of people took seriously, even though I thought I had made it self-evidently abs...
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Thursday, April 7, 2022

Urgent message for SNP members and supporters: Please contact party HQ and your local representatives to ask them to sort this out. It's genuinely vital for the cause of independence.

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Now, let me deal at the very outset of this blogpost with the objection a cynic may raise, ie. "Kelly's only saying this because he...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Alba AHA! New Survation poll reveals Alex Salmond's upstart new pro-independence party is continuing to make headway

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So the answer to the question "James, why haven't you covered yesterday's Survation poll yet?" is, of course, that I didn...
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Friday, April 1, 2022

STV for dummies

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So no, this is not a reference to Scottish Television dumbing down even further, it's about the other STV, the Single Transferable Vote ...
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Thursday, March 31, 2022

I can no longer defend the Scottish Government's approach to Covid - we're all the way back to "let it rip" and "take it on the chin"

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This is beyond parody. We're at the peak of the pandemic. Infections have reached a record high. And yet this, apparently, is the moment...
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Friday, March 25, 2022

Lisa Keogh, candidate for the Alba Party in the Arbroath West, Letham & Friockheim ward, is today's guest on the Scot Goes Popcast

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For Episode 15 of the Popcast, I'm joined by Lisa Keogh, who is standing for election to Angus Council at the Scottish local elections i...
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