It’s the consequence of kicking so much down the road, and building political success on an incredibly short-termist viewpoint.
Things go well when you can just say anything you fancy. But eventually, reality hits and often – in politics – hits hard.
You’d think they wanted to lose.
Same template kinda applies to the tories and labour nationally
They got too comfortable, Letting the idea that people will just always vote for them because the alternatives are that much worse.
This election cycle needs to be the slap in the face they deserve and need if we want any actual chance of being free from the system that hamstrings us so badly.
I know the SNP does not equal independence but when they’re the main party pushing it, do fucking better, you can’t take a position of “Westminster bad” when you’re equally corrupt. Was the same with Michael Matheson, they obviously knew it was a shit show and tried to ride it out, nah, kick him out.
I realise Peter wasn’t an MSP but change Holyrood rules, breach the ministerial code to a certain degree of severity or to a minor degree x number of times, out on your arse, by-election, the person that’s fucked up can’t stand at all. Just make it so black and white that if you want to be part of the ruling class then you need to be beyond reproach. Make it near impossible for the grifting wankers that seem to inevitably wind up in politics look at it and just go “nah, that’s too strict I couldn’t benefit myself”
If Peter is found guilty I hope they throw the book at him.
It’s that way with every political party, The Tories defeated themselves with Partygate, Labour have defeated themselves in the past, there’s no need for people to make up conspiracy theories around this.
Power corrupts, Absolute power corrupts absolutely. And for too long the SNP held absolute power in Scotland.
Another way of looking at it is that the opposition parties were absolute rubbish at opposing during those years.
It was always a bad idea to have Sturgeon and Murrell running a closed shop. It was always a bad idea to bar any public dissent. It was always a bad idea to build such a nauseating cult of personality around Chief Mammy, and it was always a bad idea to stuff the ranks with credulous, inane, nodding-dog loyalists in place of intelligent politicians.
I’ve voted repeatedly for the SNP and will do so again because my local representatives are excellent, but this reckoning is years overdue. It’s been a fucking clown show in there.
MI5 infiltration
2014 SNP now feels a bit like Blair pissing it up with Noel Gallagher in Downing Street in 97.
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It’s the consequence of kicking so much down the road, and building political success on an incredibly short-termist viewpoint.
Things go well when you can just say anything you fancy. But eventually, reality hits and often – in politics – hits hard.
You’d think they wanted to lose.
Same template kinda applies to the tories and labour nationally
They got too comfortable, Letting the idea that people will just always vote for them because the alternatives are that much worse.
This election cycle needs to be the slap in the face they deserve and need if we want any actual chance of being free from the system that hamstrings us so badly.
I know the SNP does not equal independence but when they’re the main party pushing it, do fucking better, you can’t take a position of “Westminster bad” when you’re equally corrupt. Was the same with Michael Matheson, they obviously knew it was a shit show and tried to ride it out, nah, kick him out.
I realise Peter wasn’t an MSP but change Holyrood rules, breach the ministerial code to a certain degree of severity or to a minor degree x number of times, out on your arse, by-election, the person that’s fucked up can’t stand at all. Just make it so black and white that if you want to be part of the ruling class then you need to be beyond reproach. Make it near impossible for the grifting wankers that seem to inevitably wind up in politics look at it and just go “nah, that’s too strict I couldn’t benefit myself”
If Peter is found guilty I hope they throw the book at him.
It’s that way with every political party, The Tories defeated themselves with Partygate, Labour have defeated themselves in the past, there’s no need for people to make up conspiracy theories around this.
Power corrupts, Absolute power corrupts absolutely. And for too long the SNP held absolute power in Scotland.
Another way of looking at it is that the opposition parties were absolute rubbish at opposing during those years.
It was always a bad idea to have Sturgeon and Murrell running a closed shop. It was always a bad idea to bar any public dissent. It was always a bad idea to build such a nauseating cult of personality around Chief Mammy, and it was always a bad idea to stuff the ranks with credulous, inane, nodding-dog loyalists in place of intelligent politicians.
I’ve voted repeatedly for the SNP and will do so again because my local representatives are excellent, but this reckoning is years overdue. It’s been a fucking clown show in there.
MI5 infiltration
2014 SNP now feels a bit like Blair pissing it up with Noel Gallagher in Downing Street in 97.