SNP leadership election (2023)
- Thread starter danny la rouge
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A wee bit more recent in Scotland alas.
Nine city councillors and 31% of the vote in Edinburgh in the 1930s:
Protestant Action Society - Wikipedia
23% of the vote in council elections in Glasgow in 1933:
Scottish Protestant League - Wikipedia
I'm a (wee) bit younger than you I think. How do you think much of the 'Catholic vote' moving from Labour to the SNP plays into the power thing?
danny la rouge
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This place, and its near neighbour the Louden, are a couple of hundred yards from my younger daughter’s flat. The sight of it gives me chills.
danny la rouge
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Hugely. That was a massive factor in the collapse of the Labour hegemony in the West of Scotland. And it backed the bigots into the Tory corner (and worse). And that’s where a lot of the irrational hatred of the SNP comes from.
Now, I dislike the SNP, but I hope rationally so. I’m talking about swivel eyed loonery.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
It looks tragic - what the fuck is wrong with some people. If that was anywhere in the UK I suspect most people would steer well clear of it due to the impression it gives of being full of knobheads.
danny la rouge
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And before someone comes along to say “the other side are as bad”, while that was certainly true in my youth, it genuinely isn’t now. This is not a “both sides” thing and anyone saying so is just being cowardly.
Fedayn
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Shoulda seen the place when they had the tank outside.....
danny la rouge
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I did. Jesus.
Äśasper
Well-Known Member
The SNP were generally seen as a Protestant party until around 2000. Tom Devine attributed the shift and popularisation to Salmond befriending senior RC priests. It probably had much to do with the Good Friday Agreement too. Anyway, Humza Yousaf is going to win this and everything will stay the same as it was with Nicola (a hundred unresolved tensions).
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
Yes looks odds-on for Humza now. Kate Forbes' latest bout of "bracing honesty" involved saying Scotland isn't ready for an independence referendum any time soon until a stronger case is made economically, which may well be correct, but a borderline suicidal line to take when facing the SNP membership as the electorate. Gloatingly reported by the Sunday Post, the house magazine of frightened, provincial old biddies.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
it may be what they believe and teach but it IS still wow imo. If she did say that and does believe wtf is she doing being a politician and breaking her own fecking rules?
I've never been to any of the western isles because of these nutters. I don't think I could be polite.
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
Just as well that public school poshos and ruddy faced Borders farmers sticking their heads up each others arses in pursuit of an oversized muddy egg concerns absolutely no-one other than Princess Anne, her tartan rug, and the entire No-voting constituency in Scotland.
Fuck Scottish rugby.
Fuck Scottish rugby.
Äśasper
Well-Known Member
I'm for equality between sports. If you look at any of the most athletic nations, a wide variety of sports will all receive a similar amount of following and participation. Whereas in Scotland its pretty much football or fookall (and we're not great at that either). Interesting that you say fuck Scottish rugby, not rugby in general. So it's our class ridden culture that's fucked. Both the toff aspect, as well as the fact that we have chips on our shoulders so meteoric that we risk haemorrhages at the thought of a ball game other than our own favourite.
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
word salad tbh
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
I really hope he hasn't been up to dodgy shite too, I will be disappointed tbh.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
I think it probably means he thinks Kate Forbes is going to win. I mean it might mean nothing at all, the deputy first minister is usually appointed by the FM anyway so perhaps he's just resigning as the next FM will pick who they want. The deputy leader of the SNP Stewart Hosie is an MP not an MSP so can't be the deputy FM.
Or could be he sees the imminent shitshow there's bound to be whoever wins (given they all have...issues) and he's like 'fuck this for a game of soldiers'.
danny la rouge
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Yes, yes, I don’t think so.
danny la rouge
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They have groups like the SNP Trades Union Group, but they’re made up of members and have no additional voting rights by being in the group, if you see what I mean. But I would claim to be an expert.
I see that Forbes has been anointed by the Ewing Dynasty as an honorary daughter of the clan. I can’t imagine that mattering to anyone who wasn’t already going to vote for her (the right).
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Weren't the Ewing's Dallas, rather than Dynasty???
Either explains her being soft on the oil co's tho
Very good!
danny la rouge
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Yes, but this Dallasty are the family of SNP matriarch Winnie, wife of the late Stewart, mother of Fergus and Annabelle and mother-in-law of the late Margaret, all SNP figures.
Winnie is sort of the Boudicca of the SNP. A talisman but capable of doing her own team considerable damage with her chariot wheels. She retired some time ago but is still alive (I just checked).
