I no longer wish to be associated with a party which is not single-mindedly focused on securing Scotland’s independence. This power struggle is about to be played out in miniature as Angus Robertson (Team Nicola) and Joanna Cherry (Team Alex) battle it out to be selected as the party’s candidate for Edinburgh Central in next year’s Holyrood elections.
As for them stuffing the party stappit fu ay their entryist, careerist arsehole pals…plus ca change, The SNP is now an active enemy of Scotland, and, without a change at the top tiers, will remain so, until Holyrood gets closed down and we all drown in minority-worshipping intersectionalist bullshit. 1. I won’t vote for Robertson in my constituency, but I’m not sure I’ll vote SNP under any circumstances now. It is with some regret that I do this, but a number of issues have come to a head today. In the SNP, everybody is ‘equal’, but some are more equal than others, eh Angus?Meanwhile, more and more LGB folk are waking up to just EXACTLY what these silly gender laws will actually mean for them.This has been a great thread to read. Ordinary members should decide and ordinary voters won’t forget. The “ordinary” membership have shown little desire and even less ability to make the SNP reconsider its current trajectory.It’s vanishingly unlikely such a supine membership base will somehow wrest control of the levers of power from the unsavoury cabal who just gerrymandered the Edinburgh Central nomination.I’d like to think Joanna Cherry will be so outraged by this anti-democratic outrage that she decides to leave the party, but I have my doubts.This is the straw that broke the camels back for me though. Ms Sturgeons pal.hardly a philisophical block buster, i know, but hey, if the hat fits etcYou never answered the second part. One Hope’s..‘I remember the first article the Rev wrote criticising the party, and he was slaughtered for it.’That’s why Wings is so valuable and streets ahead of anyone else. The question now is if the local SNP group endorse his candidacy. or Salmond …. It’s farcicle at best.So will Douglas Ross have to resign as an MP before he can be considered as a list candidate in Scotland – or is it only the SNP who are stupid enough to make this a rule?Don’t get me wrong. But I beg you don’t leave until there is a VIABLE ALTERNATIVE.I live in Inverclyde if Stuart McMillan does NOT speak up about this then Chris McEleny is assured of my vote.
You don’t even have to wear a skirt and lippy nowadays.The SNP can be fixed, time is against us, but it can be fixed. SNP would hopefully be dependent on that indy party’s support. Former Moray MP Angus Robertson was told about concerns relating to the conduct of Alex Salmond, it has been claimed. Given the strength of support for independence and the very considerable disaffection there is about the SNP leadership, it does not seem like wild optimism to envisage a new indy vehicle piling on the votes and exerting a lot of influence.Also, a rapprochement of some kind between the new party and a post-Sturgeon SNP that had largely returned to sanity would surely be very possible.What exactly are Angus Robertson’s qualifications to be described as a “Big hitter”. Of course both sides have their supporters within the party, but only one side (Cherry’s) has the interests of the Scottish people at heart through independence.I doubt very much Robertson will reply to this thread, knowing fine well that he’s already been rumbled.I see someone saying it could split the party, oh if only.
July 31, 2020 by There are just criteria that need to be met. But then, if there IS no final push, her presence would’ve made the leadership more open to criticism.Not sure if this is true but quite a number of people on Twitter are saying James Dornan’s seat has been designated an all women shortlist, so looks like he’s gone.Didn’t James Dornan announce a while ago he wouldn’t be standing anyway ?Ms Cherry is not barred from going for the Edinburgh Central seat. It’s absolutely blatant gerrymandering.To the people talking of Alex Salmond earning two salaries, as MP and MSP at the same time. He’s very much like Keith Brown in having zero charisma. Pride comes before a fall, and what goes up, must come down…Let’s just hope it’s someone like Joanna that fills this void!With reference to all the people reporting resigning from the SNP.While that may or may not be noticed, or cared, what will hurt the party is the number of activists who will hold back from campaigning next year.My guess is that the majority of the genuine Indy posters on here are active in one way or more at a local level. But I am doing that now, even though I like my MSP and she has done well in government in two difficult ministries.Opportunity knocks for the Greens – declare that their major policy for the Holyrood elections are to secure a mandate for an Indy referendum within 2021, and disenchanted SNP voters can then vote for Indy and avoid endorsing the SNP GRA and Hate Crime agenda.You do know that the Greens are even worse wrt the GRA, don’t you?There isn’t enough money in the universe to bribe me to vote Green again (I have done in the past because I agree with some of their environmental policies, though even there they can be disturbingly unscientific).Does Edinburgh central have to select Angus, or could they f*ck the SNP leadershio, and still go ahead and select somebody else?I seriously hope Angus loses. ?Furtyher to the point, the SNP today actively blocked an openly lesbian (and rather excellent) candidate standing for Edinburgh central, as an MSP candidate.
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