Spelling Trouble For Sturgeon
Here's an interesting article by Kenny MacAskill, the former SNP justice minister and MSP, who has remerged as the Westminster MP for East Lothian.
Scottish independence: The old SNP is back and pressure is mounting on Nicola Sturgeon and co – Kenny MacAskill MP
It’s safe to say that the elections to the SNP National Executive held last week didn’t produce the outcome the leadership had been seeking.
Bu Kenny MacAskill - The Scotsman
Apparently the old SNP is back after recent elections to the party's ruling national executive - and that spells trouble for Nicola Sturgeon & Co.
Read the full story via the link below to The Scotsman.
Scottish independence: The old SNP is back and pressure is mounting on Nicola Sturgeon and co – Kenny MacAskill MP
It’s safe to say that the elections to the SNP National Executive held last week didn’t produce the outcome the leadership had been seeking.
Bu Kenny MacAskill - The Scotsman
10th December 2020
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon and the party's chief executive, her husband Peter Murrell, leave a polling station at Broomhouse Park Community Hall in Edinburgh after casting their votes in last year's European Parliament elections (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)
An alliance of women’s rights activists, old party stalwarts and the left had a pretty comprehensive victory, taking many senior scalps.
They were reclaiming their party, as they saw it, from a woke faction who were damaging women’s rights and downplaying, if not, ignoring independence.
It wasn’t achieved without a fight. Factions had been denounced, by inference as well as by name. But all was to no avail, and whilst not a tidal wave, it was still a sea change.
An alliance of women’s rights activists, old party stalwarts and the left had a pretty comprehensive victory, taking many senior scalps.
They were reclaiming their party, as they saw it, from a woke faction who were damaging women’s rights and downplaying, if not, ignoring independence.
It wasn’t achieved without a fight. Factions had been denounced, by inference as well as by name. But all was to no avail, and whilst not a tidal wave, it was still a sea change.
