Ooooooft, spicy!

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  2. If Yousaf agrees to that then surely some SNP MSPs will vote against him in the confidence vote. However he of course can’t even consider agreeing to it.

    Yousaf should have resigned by now – not that I particularly mind, the longer he stays the more the SNP show themselves to be inept.

    I wonder if Salmond had to change his offer because Yousaf was about to accept it, and it was designed to be refused but make it look like Alba had tried.

    Not sure why thiis thread was deleted but anyway.

  3. Massively overplaying his hand here – although this may be talking up demands to provide something to concede in negotiations. Painful concessions on policy are definitely doable, not having an SNP candidate in every seat in Scotland just won’t happen.

  4. I guess he knows that Humza won’t ever agree to Alba’s demands and is just going for laughs now.

  5. The only people who would do shit with Alba are the Libertarians who want the age of consent to be 8*, and the scottish Family party because despite indy being anathema to them theyll do anything for an abortion ban. 

    And enter the man without a job next week.

    *This isnt atually their policy just the richest and most high profile libertarian. 

  6. Again, this is all very funny and was completely avoidable.

    Yousef has to be one of, if not the worst, political navigators in Holyrood history.

  10. I want to win the lottery jackpot tonight but my chances are close to fuck all too.

  11. Salmond’s wanted that for some time, and quite rightly the SNP have told him where to go.

  12. Party with a massive 2% of the vote when rounded up says what now

    Lolololololol

  13. Funny, but strange on Salmond’s part. If the SNP step aside the indy vote will jut split between Alba and the Greens allowing a Unionist in, probably Labour given recent polling.

  15. Aye and I want George R R Martin to write a fucking book

  16. Oof, this week is about to get more and more interesting. I can’t see Humza or the SNP agreeing to this. Even if Humza did, I think SNP MSP’s would rebel and maybe vote in favour of a VONC as they wouldn’t want seats to be lost in that way

  17. Guys. This isn’t a serious offer. Salmond knows how the SNP constitution works, and that it essentially compels the SNP to run in every constituency as a matter of principle. He’s telling Yousaf to fuck off, using the rules of SNP to taunt him.

    To get an excemption would require signoff at minimum from the SNP NEC, and possibly some sort of mini-conference. That would never get past veteran MPs like Pete Wishart who *loathe* Alba with a burning passion.

    This is about trying to force Yousaf to do something stupid that shows he’s finished. And if he holds the line, the VONC becomes a real risk, and Salmond will hold him personally responsible if/when Labour wins in the two marginal seats with Alba MPs, and the Western Isles (also marginal), where the independent, former SNP MP has an electoral pact with Alba.

  18. The future parliament surely has to be made up of independents. The partys are essentially all the same. All sticky fingered. Let’s go back to proper.local representation. Electing people that actually live in the areas that they’re standing for, in order to better said areas.

  20. lmao. Even if somehow the SNP exec suffered a mass delusion all in one go and agreed to this, why exactly would the pro-indy electorate who overwhelmingly DON’T support Alba or Salmond’s ego trips give them a vote instead of just spoiling ballots? It’d just lead to more unionist MSPs (or ironically more SNP list MSPs!)

    Also even if they DID somehow get this agreement, and the SNP electorate were willing to entertain voting for another party… what’s to say they wouldn’t just vote Green instead of Alba?

  22. Is there actually any area in Scotland where Alba have a chance of winning if SNP stepped aside and if so can we please seal this area off indefinitely?

  23. Why is the Times getting that info? The Herald needs to step up and stop letting English papers do this. Sick of it.

  24. Of course he doesn’t. He’s cynically trying to grab headlines and make his diddy wee party look like anything other than a joke.

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