Tyrannies, Oppressors and Nut Jobs

The suggestion that Scotland is living under an oppressive tyranny is completely laughable.

Yet this didn't stop former SNP MP for East Lothian, George Kerevan, from attacking the current SNP leadership on social media by drawing unfavourable comparisons with Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr and Mahatma Ghandi.

Bonkers or what? - though it does lend weight to the argument that the 'old SNP' really is in the ascendancy following its recent success in elections to the party's national executive.

See post below featuring Kenny McAskill, the former SNP justice secretary who has now reinvented himself as the new SNP MP for East Lothian - no fan of Nicola Sturgeon either, I would say. 

   

Spelling Trouble For Sturgeon (11/12/20)


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.

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.

   

https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/scottish-independence-old-snp-back-and-pressure-mounting-nicola-sturgeon-and-co-kenny-macaskill-mp-3062196

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
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.

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