The conference will clearly be for the gravy train brigade, plus the remaining cultists, so it's likely to be simultaneously stomach-turning and hilarious - and we certainly need a sense of humour in the midst of the midden Sturgeon and her gang have landed us in.
Why on earth did the SNP leadership decide to hold this conference on the same day as the AUOB march, which has been publicised for months? Are they hoping all the real activists will be in Stirling?
And what decisions will the regional assemblies be making if the conference has already decided everything? My MP is Joanna Cherry, and she's the only reason I would vote SNP in GE2024. However, the unaccountable NEC have been doing everything they can to deselect her so who knows if she will be there by then.
Conservatives who don't conserve anything.
A Labour Party who don't care about the working classes.
Scots Greens who don't care about the environment or our communities.
An SNP leadership more concerned with their careers than independence.
Scots Lib Dems who are neither liberal nor democratic, and whom, we discovered this week, don't want to be Scottish either.
Who on earth are we supposed to vote for? I really hope Alba develop an election strategy and I can vote for them.
Thank you for articulating my concerns almost exactly apart from the fact that although I once campaigned for the SNP about 25 years ago, I would never vote for independence now.
The principal reason being that unless an independence party can show either fiscal success on a municipal level or cold economic realities of post referendum realpolitik, I'll not be following anyone off the bankruptcy cliff.
Oh, I still want independence. The thing about the SNP leadership is that they have made themselves irrelevant to many of us. There's Common Weal working on public policy, Salvo/Liberation.Scot on the UN angle, Business For Scotland/Believe In Scotland working on economic policy, there are people working on currency ideas. You should have a look around, it's really heartening. But the SNP leadership has actually prided themselves on ignoring the grassroots since Sturgeon took office, and now they are a small cog, or a minor irritant, to the larger cause. When you were involved in the SNP, the "fundies" didn't want to get involved with Devolution because they saw it as a distraction from independence. And the recent party leadership have proved them right.
Well, it's kind of looking like the media people are helping Sturgeon to be "rehabilitated" too, even before this investigation is over. It was bad enough that the English Guardian paper provided a platform for her last week to rant about what a great idea it is to abolish juries in sexual assault cases but, today, the Glasgow Times has given her another opportunity to indulge in "poor me" drivel. What is the Times thinking of when Sturgeon is right at the centre of this investigation and the investigation is still live? And, bizarrely, she's claiming to be a "backbencher" now when she's still deliberately seeking headlines all over the place which, let's face it, can only undermine her successor. Yousaf has one more problem, then, to add to the existing list.
I am really surprised that the media, in Scotland at least, isn't demanding to know why Sturgeon is being permitted to go about her life without anything as damaging as an arrest interfering in her plans. What is Police Scotland playing at? Two out of three signatories of those accounts have been interviewed. The third individual, Sturgeon, has not. Why? Or, has she been interviewed privately to avoid publicity? I really think we are entitled to know. If the other two had to suffer that indignity why shouldn't she? They even have her on video warning off those who were asking questions about the finances.
The poll today is interesting but for me polls are all irrelevant unless it's a real election. That said, it will still be deeply uncomfortable reading for the SNP. It will make excellent reading for Labour however the job they need to do in order to win power is in England, not Scotland. In reality how Scotland votes doesn't matter at UK level. It's Tories in England they need to get rid of. And from where I'm sitting, Starmer isn't cutting it there and still isn't keen on talking policies.
I'm increasingly disillusioned with the whole political scene as there is no Party I'd vote for. They're all "serving" now at a time when people are worrying themselves sick about interest rates, energy costs, food costs and goodness knows what else. And what are they doing? Backbiting and hurling abuse at each other, clapping like seals or banging on tables, ignoring the plight out here which isn't affecting them because they earn so much money, the crises aren't touching them! Even when they commit misconduct in their posts, they get away with it, unless they're Margaret Ferrier, and get to carry on. There are few of them I would not call an absolute disgrace.
The conference will clearly be for the gravy train brigade, plus the remaining cultists, so it's likely to be simultaneously stomach-turning and hilarious - and we certainly need a sense of humour in the midst of the midden Sturgeon and her gang have landed us in.
Why on earth did the SNP leadership decide to hold this conference on the same day as the AUOB march, which has been publicised for months? Are they hoping all the real activists will be in Stirling?
And what decisions will the regional assemblies be making if the conference has already decided everything? My MP is Joanna Cherry, and she's the only reason I would vote SNP in GE2024. However, the unaccountable NEC have been doing everything they can to deselect her so who knows if she will be there by then.
Conservatives who don't conserve anything.
A Labour Party who don't care about the working classes.
Scots Greens who don't care about the environment or our communities.
An SNP leadership more concerned with their careers than independence.
Scots Lib Dems who are neither liberal nor democratic, and whom, we discovered this week, don't want to be Scottish either.
Who on earth are we supposed to vote for? I really hope Alba develop an election strategy and I can vote for them.
Thank you for articulating my concerns almost exactly apart from the fact that although I once campaigned for the SNP about 25 years ago, I would never vote for independence now.
The principal reason being that unless an independence party can show either fiscal success on a municipal level or cold economic realities of post referendum realpolitik, I'll not be following anyone off the bankruptcy cliff.
Oh, I still want independence. The thing about the SNP leadership is that they have made themselves irrelevant to many of us. There's Common Weal working on public policy, Salvo/Liberation.Scot on the UN angle, Business For Scotland/Believe In Scotland working on economic policy, there are people working on currency ideas. You should have a look around, it's really heartening. But the SNP leadership has actually prided themselves on ignoring the grassroots since Sturgeon took office, and now they are a small cog, or a minor irritant, to the larger cause. When you were involved in the SNP, the "fundies" didn't want to get involved with Devolution because they saw it as a distraction from independence. And the recent party leadership have proved them right.
Well, it's kind of looking like the media people are helping Sturgeon to be "rehabilitated" too, even before this investigation is over. It was bad enough that the English Guardian paper provided a platform for her last week to rant about what a great idea it is to abolish juries in sexual assault cases but, today, the Glasgow Times has given her another opportunity to indulge in "poor me" drivel. What is the Times thinking of when Sturgeon is right at the centre of this investigation and the investigation is still live? And, bizarrely, she's claiming to be a "backbencher" now when she's still deliberately seeking headlines all over the place which, let's face it, can only undermine her successor. Yousaf has one more problem, then, to add to the existing list.
I am really surprised that the media, in Scotland at least, isn't demanding to know why Sturgeon is being permitted to go about her life without anything as damaging as an arrest interfering in her plans. What is Police Scotland playing at? Two out of three signatories of those accounts have been interviewed. The third individual, Sturgeon, has not. Why? Or, has she been interviewed privately to avoid publicity? I really think we are entitled to know. If the other two had to suffer that indignity why shouldn't she? They even have her on video warning off those who were asking questions about the finances.
The poll today is interesting but for me polls are all irrelevant unless it's a real election. That said, it will still be deeply uncomfortable reading for the SNP. It will make excellent reading for Labour however the job they need to do in order to win power is in England, not Scotland. In reality how Scotland votes doesn't matter at UK level. It's Tories in England they need to get rid of. And from where I'm sitting, Starmer isn't cutting it there and still isn't keen on talking policies.
I'm increasingly disillusioned with the whole political scene as there is no Party I'd vote for. They're all "serving" now at a time when people are worrying themselves sick about interest rates, energy costs, food costs and goodness knows what else. And what are they doing? Backbiting and hurling abuse at each other, clapping like seals or banging on tables, ignoring the plight out here which isn't affecting them because they earn so much money, the crises aren't touching them! Even when they commit misconduct in their posts, they get away with it, unless they're Margaret Ferrier, and get to carry on. There are few of them I would not call an absolute disgrace.