Will The S N P Civil War Effect The Election?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/alex-salmond-accuses-officials-in-snp-and-scottish-govt-of-concerted-effort-to-damage-his-reputation-12226213
what's the mood of our resident SNPers on the Salmond Witch hunt?

[royfromaus]

Odd that SNP threads hardly ever attract SNP supporters.

[Peter Pedant]

// otherwise there wouldn't be any good lawyers, they'd be retraining as plumbers.//

lawyers are as good as your last case.

[ lawyers that have screwed up things: american chief justice who cross examined Goering. Goering said that the americans had bombed cities and burnt children and no one was doing diddly squat.

Sir Reginald Bullying Manner who botched Dr Bodkin Adams murder case 1957. Acquitted. Sir reg for it was he became Viscount Dilhorne. Yes you heard right - Duh-LEARN. OK doesnt sound like ruin

All the lawyers and judges in the IRA bomb cases. Took 20y to realise that they had ALL been convicted thro perjury.
Lord Lane: "it is nothing to do with me if the police decide to lie"

[douglas9401]

Flip-flopping between saviours of our wee bit hill and glen and Machiavelian arch-plotters while the country goes to *** around their ears is standard stuff for politicians, even the over-promoted town councillors in charge up here.

I hold none of them in high regard, or low come to that.

The big man's ticked off that he's not top dog any more and his former bestie gets the shakes if she can't perform in the parly every luchtime, reeling off the death toll, reminding us of F.A.C.T.S. trying to think of new ways to keep the plebs at home.

I despise the lot of them.

[ynnafymmi]

@21.10.I dont despise them,Dougie.However i wish they would just get on with running Scotland properly,and stop fantasising about an independence vote which if won would turn Scotland into a worse failed state than Albania.

[ynnafymmi]

....meanwhile us mug taxpayers up here in Scotland look on to the ongoing SNP civil war and wonder...who the hell votes for these back-stabbing so-called politicians.....

[mushroom25]

// who the hell votes for these back-stabbing so-called politicians..... //

practically the entire population. Scotland is almost a one-party state now, and May's election is likely to set that position in stone.

[ToraToraTora]

ynna - move to England while you still can. Once the wee un leaves UK, prostrates herself before the mighty EUSSR and builds a border there'll be less and less of you to earn the Euros to pay for the show.

[middlemarch]

Mushroom, I think you will find that most of us here in Scotland don't vote for the SNP. They got 45% of the vote at the last general election. The trouble is that the opposition is divided.

[Peter Pedant]

// Once the wee un leaves UK, prostrates herself before the mighty EUSSR and builds a border there'll be less and less of you to earn the Euros to pay for the show.//

o god knows what the above means
the pythea at Delphi was clearer (*)

the improved version and original version of the Salmond statement are to be found on Guido Fawkes
here
https://order-order.com/2021/02/23/breaking-salmond-evidence-to-be-removed-by-holyrood/

the redaction is the statement that the first minister is a bare faced liar which the govt lawyers say is - - - contempt of court.
yes, whaaaat? - no wonder they are imploding north of the border

[Peter Pedant]

(*) the pythea inhaled sulphurous fumes and
the priests scurried around interpreting them.
she or they survived predicting the wrong winner

er that wd be athens ( for the world cup or sumfing)

[Peter Pedant]

the lawyer representing the scots govt is also they say representing Nicola S and Slamond is sayin this is an irretrievable conflict

and you know I think he has a point

[steg]

There’s no civil war, so I very much doubt it will effect anything apart from selling a few papers maybe.
I think the SNP support is rising so I think they will increase there seats at Holyrood.

As for a one party state.. what a lot of (sounds like fish)

[steg]

//Odd that SNP threads hardly ever attract SNP supporters//

Aye?
You read one, then you’ve pretty much read them all any way

[ToraToraTora]

steg; "There’s no civil war, " - the current leader and her cohorts are trying to get the former leader put in the slammer! What would you call it?

[steg]

Wishful thinking maybe.
Salmond isn’t even a member of the snp

[mushroom25]

// Salmond isn’t even a member of the snp //

that kinda implies that party membership is everything, that without it you're nothing. (and you claim Scotland isn't a one-party state?)

whereas Mr Salmond is still a prominent figure in scottish politics, is still entitled to be addressed as "the Right Honourable..." and still has powerful allies within and outwith the party.

it's probably the case that the SNP, and Ms Sturgeon in particular, will brush this off and sweep to unprecedented victory in may. but in the run up to the election, this is a distraction the really don't need - history shows distracted governments tend not to prosper. and, in the end, divided parties often forget how to win.

[steg]

// (and you claim Scotland isn't a one-party state?) //

Scotland doesn’t even have a majority government, uk is more a one party state than Scotland is

[steg]

[// Salmond isn’t even a member of the snp //

that kinda implies that party membership is everything,.. ]

It does in a civil war

[ynnafymmi]

But the SNP still have their little lapdogs(the Green Party)running aroung doing the SNPs bidding.Mrs Murrell says jump and the Greens whimper in a corner and say"how high"....

[steg]

Not a bad thing ynnaf,
I remember not long ago the uk gov’ having to buy a bunch of Irish politicians to back them up, I don’t think they could jump all that high tho