At the end of a very depressing week in Scottish politics I can’t help but smile at those @nuSNP supporters who have told me it would be wrong to bring back Alex Salmond as he was ‘yesterday’s man.’ John Swinney

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Tommy Sheridan
3 May, 2024 at 11:53 am

There is a world of difference between a vote to actually bring down an independence supporting government and/or First Minister and a safe vote to openly express your distaste and…

Wings Over Scotland By turning the clock back 24 years, the SNP will lose that many seats it'll be like John Swinney all over again..oh wait a minute. What have they done! 🤣

OnTheRun 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Christopher McEleny Labour Party faithful still accuse the SNP of “ushering in thatcher” in the 1979 VONC.

Truth is the government were finished anyway and the VONC was purely symbolic.

Discuss.

SNP: Help! Greens are trying to bring down the gov
Alba: We can help if you just go back to putting independence first and governing well
SNP: Fuck off! That’s against our principles and values. We’d rather lose our leader.
Alba: OK 🤷‍♀️
SNP: how dare they not help us!

Veronica 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Murdo Fraser Scottish Government Ross just shouts too little too late when he smells blood.

Reactive rather than proactive.

He exposed himself as a lightweight when he misjudged the mood of English backbench MPs re Boris.

The wider Indy movement have been years ahead in opposing the SNP/Green gov failings.

I find it indicative of the nature of the SNP to completely ignore and disregard Alex Salmond's suggestions of working together for independence then act all upset when ALBA Party votes against them in a no confidence motion. Typically hypocritical.

Good Morning Britain Susanna Reid Kevin Maguire Andrew Pierce 3 frightened English people avoid talking about English independence

alexmassie Comments on Starmer denying democracy
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It's so transparent watching media hacks being fed the line that nobody should dare run against Swinney if he chooses to stand for the leadership. The SNP are desperate to get Ross Greer's 'work dad' in place ASAP.

Alex Salmond is yesterday's man but....John Swinney... Wait what?!?!?!?! Fuck it, this country is a binfire!

HaMFaCe Cameron McNeish Rab Even the North of England has transport infrastructure that looks normal for a developed country. Sure it’s dysfunctional and tatty but it’s there.

Scotland has been starved of transport infrastructure in the UK, well before devolution.

HaMFaCe Cameron McNeish Rab By the end of last century Scotland was left less motorways than The Republic of Ireland or Denmark, Glasgow and Edinburgh combined had less direct international airlinks than Copenhagen or Dublin. And the Tories had sold off all Scotlands major ports.

MediaQuest Scott Joanna Cherry KC There are 3 subsidised fake “Scottish parties” in Holyrood.

If they were to form a government in Holyrood the FM would not be a party leader. See Wales.

John Proctor Scott Joanna Cherry KC You don’t have to be FM to be in charge of the party.

Henry Mcleish and Jack McConnell were not party leaders

If you end an agreement with a group because you think they're a liability, that group responding like *this* is not evidence that you made an error of judgment. On the polar opposite contrary. It proves that your judgement was spot on.

AirdrieSupraOmnia That's unfair. Their demands DID say that that was the price of their support. Was never going to work, but they made the offer.

Their stupidity is absolutely grim as fuck, another SNP government where fuck all changes for 7 years... God Save Scotland!

Mhairi Hunter 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Hey Mhairi, didn't Salmond deliver a referendum within 7 years? Didn't he also take your piddly wee fringe party into government? Also didn't he only have SIX WM MPs at the time?

How come your pal couldn't deliver anything with FIFTY SIX? in fact why couldn't advance indy???

Apparently a lot of SNP supporters only have knowledge of the party post 2014... They seem to forget the man who took them from a piddly wee loony fringe party into government and who ACTUALLY DELIVERED A REFERENDUM, these people have very short memories.