Stephen Daisley nails it.
The SNP didn’t have a transition plan for Aberdeen — they had a demolition plan.
The biggest betrayal of a Scottish workforce in a generation.
Letters pages are saying what many Scots are thinking:
SNP cover-ups, financial chaos and a Holyrood bubble completely detached from reality.
After nearly 20 years in power, the excuses have run out.
Last year, a video went viral of a scared, 12 year old girl in Dundee.
She was waving weapons, shouting at a migrant to leave her alone.
Almost immediately, many on the left were calling this girl a liar (and worse). They were saying the “far-right” were whipping up ‘anti-migrant hate’.
People like @HumzaYousaf & many more called it ‘bullsh*t’.
Many, including people like @jdpoc while calling her a liar & talking about her ‘hatred’, showed pictures of the little girl. Just to make sure everyone knew who the ‘liar’ they were talking about, was.
A fundraiser for the girl was mocked, suggesting she’d use the money to buy “machetes and IronBru”
She was a child. Their posts were seen by hundreds of thousands of people.
She wasn’t ‘hate-filled’, she was scared.
Yesterday, her version of events was proven to be true. She was sexually harassed by a migrant and another child physically assaulted too.
The man and his sister were prosecuted.
How shameful that children need to arm themselves for protection.
How shameful that adults will deny their reality.
How shameful that some people are so desperate to defend migration into this country, that they will literally mock children who are victims of their crimes.
Shame on you all.
I’ll be fascinated to see how many of you publicly apologise to the girl, in the same public way that you called her a liar.
I won’t hold my breath…
I hope this girl is ok.
https://t.co/6G0Iz3cf1h
This is an outrageous, disgraceful smear on John Healey — and an outright lie. There are a ton of ways to finance more for defence — starting with net zero — without taking a penny from schools or hospitals. Reeves should be ashamed of herself for allowing this nonsense. Suggests she’s really desperate.
Watching Holyrood debate on an inquiry. When my name was mentioned as a whistleblower on SNP finances & governance culture who was bullied for her trouble some MSPs jeered. That’s no surprise to me as some of the bullies and those who enabled them are now SNP MSPs. Charlatans.
Going to Pizza Express in an invisible camper van is an unusual thing to do. Andrew whatisname and @NicolaSturgeon (him/not me) hurtling down the road to perdition.........
🧵This, from Robin McAlpine, sums up the current position of the SNP very well & also lays out legitimate concerns about Crown Office. “A political party in this country has allowed its Chief Exec to steal money, it bullied & forced out whistleblowers…1/3 https://t.co/2isgUXlkzT
"People need to wake up to the fact that the SNP is not the party of Scotland, not the party of independence, but the party of third-rate, jumped-up parish councillors and sundry unemployable misfits." #SNPout#ResignSwinney
https://t.co/tW8w1buNR2
The SNP’s latest use of freebies to buy votes (which the Scots keep falling for).
Of course, it’s not a free £10,000 grant—it’s a shared-equity scheme (like an interest-free equity loan) where the Scottish Government takes a proportional ownership stake in the property, which is repaid later.
You need to qualify for a mortgage in the usual way first. Then you can take Scot Gov’s £10k to help with the deposit.
If that comes to say, 5% of the purchase price, when you come to sell, say for £300,000, then you will pay back Scot Gov £15,000.
The SNP crucified Douglas Ross for missing parliamentary business to referee football.
Now they're sending FOUR ministers on a taxpayer-funded World Cup jolly while Holyrood is sitting.
Arrogance. Hypocrisy. Entitlement.
That's today's SNP in three words.
Wait! Last week, John Swinney confirmed that the referendum appeal money had been spent on other things but this was no kind of a problem.
This week: OK, yes it was a problem and we've spent years lying to our own supporters. Next time we'll do better!
(But - wait, again! - the money Murrell stole was *not* the same money as the money given to the referendum appeal fund which the party now says it spent incorrectly.)
I’m sorry but this @LaraBirdSNP act is hilarious.
@theSNP are seriously asking Arbroath to believe that a Pyra Bird-Leakey, Westminster-polished, King’s-adjacent, international-law, dynastic-posh East African colonial biography has simply emerged from the harbour like a local lassie with a leaflet.
It’s dress-up for people who think voters are mugs.
Peter Murrell qualified for legal aid while owning a villa in the Algarve worth potentially hundreds of thousands of pounds.
A simple question:
How did a man with a holiday home abroad end up getting taxpayers to help fund his defence?
https://t.co/ykCd3fMpfO
Remember when Nicola Sturgeon commented on Alex Salmond’s acquittal and basically said that just because he was found not guilty doesn’t mean it didn’t happen?
Those words might come back to haunt her. After all, just because she hasn’t been charged with anything doesn’t mean she won’t be charged in the future.
https://t.co/tROAGPJh5t
The SNP isn’t merely capable of lying to the public — it has made deception a political strategy.
Alex Massie is right.
The Murrell scandal exposed a culture of secrecy and cover-up, yet John Swinney still refuses to acknowledge the scale of the wrongdoing.
Worse, SNP ministers too often resort to outright deception in the face of overwhelming evidence. That speaks volumes.
For too long, the SNP’s instinct has been denial, deflection and concealment rather than honesty and accountability. That is why public trust has been so badly damaged.
Read Alex Massie’s column in The Sunday Times below ⬇️
Ireland is a Russian colony in plain sight.
Russian mafioso Oleg Deripaska controls the colony.
Russians extract 67,000 tons of alumina per month from their colony and send it back to Russia to build weapons.
That's 83% of total production of Ireland.
⚠️£600,000 gone.
⚠️A former SNP chief executive convicted.
⚠️Ministers found in contempt of court.
Yet Swinney's priority is blocking inquiries.
What exactly is he afraid of?
Wings Over Scotland has this morning sent the following further letters to Police Scotland and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. https://t.co/Bhba62RlEz