SNP, Resignations and the SAS

I wonder how long it will be before this Aberdeenshire councillor gets the same - 'Who's Cllr Blackett?' - treatment as her colleague David Baird? 

Interestingly, Cllr Blackett cites one of her main concerns as the state of the Scottish Ambulance Service.

Geva Blackett has resigned from the SNP.

 

Cllr David Baird Who? (August 20, 2021)

 David Baird has quit the SNP for Alex Salmond's Alba Party

At 39 years Cllr David Baird must have been a member of the SNP longer than Nicola Sturgeon, but the party has already reduced him to 'David Who?"after criticising the current leadership and jumping ship to Alba. 

For years Cllr Baird was good enough to represent the SNP, but now the party takes a different view and says he "lives in a parallel universe" which is a rather odd thing to say about such a long-serving member.
 
Nicola Sturgeon has seen a number of politicians leave for the Alba party

 

SNP - Carry On Screaming! (August 18, 2021)

I don't imagine anyone would characterise David Blair's defection from the SNP as a hammer blow, but it's still  significant in its own small way.
 
Cllr Baird (an SNP member for 39 years) blasts the party for its intolerance - "Your cannot have a debate without being shouted down" - and compares the SNP to the famous scream scene from the movie 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' starring Donald Sutherland.

I think this is the scene Cllr Baird means, but if he's right SNP meetings must be hell these days!

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Scream: How The Movie Made The Sound Effect

 

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