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By this point, neither is "she"!

Last year, he made it quite clear that he had done his shift and intended to retire. However the wheels came off of Humza even quicker than was expected and the Sturgeon faction wanted to prevent a Forbes ascendency at all costs. While day-before-yesterdays-man Swinney is obviously a joke when presented as a new and dynamic leader, he is literally the only person they could muster. Who else could the ruling faction have put forward? Its simple desperation. When the 3rd Reich send doddering old civilian men out to face the T-34s in the snow, they didnt do it because they were good candidates for it. They did it because they were all that they had by that point. Volksstrum John is in the same mould. The current battle within the SNP is, to large extent, the traditional tory-labour battle, except its taking place within the bounds of independence supporters. They had really hoped to keep a lid on this until after indy (ha) - generous and tolerant Salmond did it with ease, but Sturgeon introduced "progressive authoritarianism" to control things, which inflamed tensions and - along with years of disastrous SNP social and fiscal policies - has led to this in-fighting.

Was at Kula Shaker this evening, had a good time. I thought it would be good, but it was better than I expected. The swg3 hall they had was better than the Zutons one, as it didn't have the pillars in front of the stage. They waited till the very end to play Govinda, which was excellent - funny to hear pissed weegies singing in sanskrit! Had a few pints at Patrick Cross before it, and a munch in German Doner Kebab. Great stuff!

So, as the Sturgeonites line up one by one to endorse Swinney (just as they did with Humza), an Ipsos poll shows more of the general public would prefer Forbes. When limited to SNP voters alone, though, they prefer Swinney. Who would have thought that a failed leader from 20 years ago, who is known to be keen to retire and is heavily associated with all the shite of the Sturgeon years, would fail to get voters' juices flowing? (Wings is calling him Volkssturm John - hilarious!) Two things are clear: (i) The ruling SNP faction couldn't give a fuck about growing support / widening appeal. They are in this for themselves and they all want a punt at FM or a ministers job to get one of those fat pensions Humza is walking off with. They just need to keep the plates spinning for long enough. God knows, most are wholly unemployable outside of Holyrood. (ii) As I alluded the other day, there is not a lot of thinkers among the SNP support. They claim to want to win a referendum, but reliably choose / support options which alienate the wider public. What an odd bunch, totally lost without Salmond. I saw a nationalist tweet the other day "we need to get Nicola back" - it was exactly like the huns "get Walter back" pish. The two groups have a lot in common. There is obviously support for Forbes, but outwith the ruling faction. She obviously knows she has to pick her time carefully. Maybe she will be happy for Swinney to do what is being asked - be the fall guy for the two likely poor elections the SNP faces, then step down to let a new, untainted leader in. Maybe Kate sees herself as that leader. Crazy the party is putting itself through this, all because Kate doesn't approve of men bumming each other. And she only said it because she was asked directly, not shouting from the rooftops. Even crazier that the action is to appease a piece of dirt like Patrick Harvie.

It was in The Herald over the weekend that the Greens are riven with internal acrimony (good). However, one chilling detail was that Ross Greer refers to John Swinney as "work dad". Just when you think these people could not disgust you any more, they always find a way......

So, now hes quitting, that means Humza (aged 39) gets £52k per year from the taxpayer for life. If he lived to 90 - not unlikely given he's never done a good days work in his life, nor will he ever - that would come out to be over £2.6m, in return for doing nothing. He became an MSP in 2011, meaning a Holyrood career of just 13 years, during which time he could not point to a single significant success of any type. And this at a time when theres a cost of living crisis and services being cut. You are correct I want it shut down.

How could we be sure the video was definitely him? Is there still a link?

'The National' today tweeted a picture of likely SNP leadership candidates. One of the pics was Ash Regan 😆

So, first you allude its a smear on him, but now you say good on him! Come on man, this aint serious!

And when he said this, he went out again to the Jews, and saith to them: I find no cause in him.

The always interesting Robin McAlpine says the SNP must appoint Kate Forbes, saying this is their last roll of the dice before the Holyrood Elections: http://robinmcalpine.org/the-snp-must-choose-forbes/ However, Wings says the Greens have done a U-turn and said they will support the Humza Government in the confidence voting, which most probably means Forbes has no chance: https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-feral-ferret/ (having said that, they U-turned on supporting Humza - and their climate targets etc - why not Forbes too? If you dont like Harvies principles, he has others).

No, he probably on some jolly abroad at our expense. Perhaps its Tartan week in Tajikistan, or opening a new SNP-embassy in Burkina Faso.

Agree with analysis of swinney. Re what the telegraph accuses him of: - its a matter of record he did vote for the GRR which would have allowed 16 yr old to self declare a gender with no medical input or evidence (all of this is obscene nonsense of course). - as for an LGBT curriculum, its this kind of thing: https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scotland-first-country-in-the-world-to-embed-lgbt-education-in-school-curriculum-3393389 https://www.thenational.scot/news/23741392.first-school-scotland-embeds-lgbt-education-curriculum/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/17/scottish-primary-schools-appoint-children-lgbt-champions/ https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/12504427/scottish-primary-schools-lgbt-champions-trans/ For a nationalist, you seem very poorly informed of what they spend their parliamentary time on, instead of independence.

You prove my point about nationalists over and over, in that you are disinclined to engage with people of a different pov, anyone with a different opinion is "blinkered". You lapse easily into caricatures / tropes of who these different people are. I dont vote for the tories, though I do support the rwanda legislaiton, it already has illegal immigrants fleeing into rep ireland. I dont know what this legislation against the mentally ill is, but if its something anti-trans then it can only be a good thing.

Thanks, thats a better explanation than mine! Interesting that the no confidence motion is still in a Yousaf government then, which the greens pledged not to support over the weekend.