SWINNEY: “Make Scotland Farage-proof!”
FARAGE: “Okay, put me in power and I’ll give you a referendum to escape me forever.”
SWINNEY: “Oh God no. I didn’t actually MEAN it. I need you to keep ME in power.”
‘Nobody’s going to let him [Dave Doogan] talk to the media again for quite some time, and in fact we’ll honestly be quite surprised if he’s still the Westminster leader this time next year.’ https://t.co/ZesiJIF1QL
‘Because when push comes to shove, the party always reacts the same way to any actual prospect of achieving independence – panic. They know it would end their reign in Scotland, and they really really like life on the gravy bus.’ https://t.co/ZesiJIEu1d
‘And every time support does creep up a tiny bit, the SNP moves the goalposts further away. What used to be a threshold of 50%+1 first becomes 60%, then 65%, and – this week, according to Brendan O’Hara – 75% or 80%.’ https://t.co/ZesiJIEu1d
‘We’re told endlessly that the UK’s woes – whether it’s Brexit or COVID or Boris Johnson or the rise of Reform – will lead to a landslide in support for independence, yet the SNP bends over backwards to stop those things from happening.’ https://t.co/ZesiJIF1QL
‘The SNP was not formed with the purpose of denying England/the UK the government it voted for, it was formed to completely sever the governance of Scotland and England from each other as a matter of permanent principle,…’ https://t.co/ZesiJIEu1d
‘Between them, Matthews, Gibbons and OFI appear as resolution movers a whopping 27 times in the provisional agenda. (We’d show you a pic of the OFI’s convener too, but their identity is a secret. No, really.)’ https://t.co/ssRMIyTyoK
‘Whether it was Police Scotland or COPFS who determined that embezzlement had not taken place, that decision has now been clearly exposed as wrong by John Swinney’s admission.’ https://t.co/T3lS8Yr4Kw
‘A crime has demonstrably taken place, which was initially indignantly denied by the SNP, only to be subsequently publicly admitted by the First Minister AFTER the police investigation had concluded.’ https://t.co/T3lS8YqwUY
🧵I suppose I ought to feel flattered by the constant snide attacks from Sturgeon & her acolytes but in truth they are becoming a little tiresome. Here’s my response to the rather silly & ill-informed blog from @burdzeyeview “Ms Higgins displays the sort of casual attitude…1/4