Thing is, I don't think this comparison holds up. Like, to compare with Labour, the party I know most about, I don't support Labour or advocate that anyone else should, but I can understand why someone would hate Keir Starmer and still support them, because the party is more than Starmer, it's also the party that most British trade unions are affiliated to, the party that for better or for worse is in power across a lot of the country, and so on. Similarly with the SNP, I can imagine that someone might hate Sturgeon or whoever and still support the SNP, because if you subtracted Sturgeon from the SNP there'd still be a lot of stuff left. With Alba, if you removed Salmond from Alba what would you have left? Tommy Sheridan and some homophobic conspiracy theories? Like, I don't see where the "pros" are to balance out the massive, massive "cons" on the Alba balance sheet.
Anyway, I thought this was kind of entertaining in a bleak kind of way:
ALBA draws a line
For one thing, it's obviously a massive, massive stretch to claim that describing Alba as "extremists" is somehow criminal behaviour that should be reported to the police, but I was mostly tickled by the way that they claim a workshop "where we’ll single out the most anti-LGBT candidates in this election" must be a targeted threat directed at them. It sort of seems like... I believe "telling on yourself" is the currently popular phrase?
