You mean asking everyone to pressure 5 friends into signing up hasn’t gone well?
Who knew.
Jokes aside, there must be a concern about funding. Their money issues have been pretty widely publicised.
Do you think they’ll asses the polling and just minimally fund some races they expect to lose to focus on the seats they can keep?
Accept some losses and gear up for a solid performance in 2026?
Cosying up to big business has certainly paid dividends for the 🟥 Tories’
Of the £21.5m in cash received by the party in 2023, just £5.9m came from the trade union movement, compared with £14.5m from companies and individuals – a huge increase from the previous year, and indeed more than in the three previous years of Keir Starmer’s leadership combined. As trade union contributions have dipped slightly, from around £6.9m in 2020 and 2021 to £5.3m in 2022, donations from businesses and individuals have soared: they totalled £2.3m in 2020 and rose to £3m in 2021 and £7.6m in 2022 before nearly doubling last year.
Around £10m of this total comes from just four sources: Gary Lubner (£4.6m), David Sainsbury (£3.1m), Fran Perrin (£1m) and Ecotricity (£1m)
I wonder what pound of flesh Labour will have promised???
Worker’s rights ???
Scottish energy resources ???
🤔🤔🤔
> The SNP’s campaign has got off to a dire start but we know Nationalist supporters will dig deep and throw money at this election in the hope of putting independence back on the agenda.
What planet do these people live on?
Remember Nicola was haemorrhaging paying party members in the tens of thousands, sure could use some of those folk now. #IStandWithNicola
At the moment who would want to support a party lacking in about everything, lost the plot, leaderless (spinney won’t stay) and a very embarrassing investigation involving a campervan.
The tides out for the SNP. Actually it’s a rip tide and there might be no coming back. Here’s hoping.
Time to put the Mobile Home on Exchange & Mart…
Why can’t Nicola donate her book advance to the cause?
How much responsibility will the SNP take when businesses are suing ScotGov for the lost money they sunk into adapting for the bottle return scheme, that flopped? Biffa spent £65 mill I believe, they ain’t about to write that off.
Since their post-2014 breakthrough the SNP has always had challenges by virtue of the fact it can’t really target its resources when it needs to be competitive *everywhere* but has fairly flat support nationally – it’s something they had a hard time with even at their peak as Unionist parties with a limited target list would concentrate everything on key seats. That’s an additional problem if your resources – both in terms of money and manpower – aren’t what the used to be. In this election, even writing off the chance of any gains, they are still defending the large majority of Scottish seats – none of those seats are safe and none can just be assumed to be lost. What do you do if you have more limited resources than before, but need to spread them around the entire country?
Why would anyone with honest intentions give money to the SNP given their recent scandal?
The only sorts of people willing to pony up at this point would be mendacious people looking to dictate terms, do as I say and you’ll get your money. That sounds an awful lot like… _lobbying_? And pandering to your donors?
Never mind only Tories do that the snp never would eh
They had a battle campervan for campaigning, maybe Police Scotland will let them use it for a month or two.
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You mean asking everyone to pressure 5 friends into signing up hasn’t gone well?
Who knew.
Jokes aside, there must be a concern about funding. Their money issues have been pretty widely publicised.
Do you think they’ll asses the polling and just minimally fund some races they expect to lose to focus on the seats they can keep?
Accept some losses and gear up for a solid performance in 2026?
Cosying up to big business has certainly paid dividends for the 🟥 Tories’
Of the £21.5m in cash received by the party in 2023, just £5.9m came from the trade union movement, compared with £14.5m from companies and individuals – a huge increase from the previous year, and indeed more than in the three previous years of Keir Starmer’s leadership combined. As trade union contributions have dipped slightly, from around £6.9m in 2020 and 2021 to £5.3m in 2022, donations from businesses and individuals have soared: they totalled £2.3m in 2020 and rose to £3m in 2021 and £7.6m in 2022 before nearly doubling last year.
Around £10m of this total comes from just four sources: Gary Lubner (£4.6m), David Sainsbury (£3.1m), Fran Perrin (£1m) and Ecotricity (£1m)
I wonder what pound of flesh Labour will have promised???
Worker’s rights ???
Scottish energy resources ???
🤔🤔🤔
> The SNP’s campaign has got off to a dire start but we know Nationalist supporters will dig deep and throw money at this election in the hope of putting independence back on the agenda.
What planet do these people live on?
Remember Nicola was haemorrhaging paying party members in the tens of thousands, sure could use some of those folk now. #IStandWithNicola
At the moment who would want to support a party lacking in about everything, lost the plot, leaderless (spinney won’t stay) and a very embarrassing investigation involving a campervan.
The tides out for the SNP. Actually it’s a rip tide and there might be no coming back. Here’s hoping.
Time to put the Mobile Home on Exchange & Mart…
Why can’t Nicola donate her book advance to the cause?
How much responsibility will the SNP take when businesses are suing ScotGov for the lost money they sunk into adapting for the bottle return scheme, that flopped? Biffa spent £65 mill I believe, they ain’t about to write that off.
Since their post-2014 breakthrough the SNP has always had challenges by virtue of the fact it can’t really target its resources when it needs to be competitive *everywhere* but has fairly flat support nationally – it’s something they had a hard time with even at their peak as Unionist parties with a limited target list would concentrate everything on key seats. That’s an additional problem if your resources – both in terms of money and manpower – aren’t what the used to be. In this election, even writing off the chance of any gains, they are still defending the large majority of Scottish seats – none of those seats are safe and none can just be assumed to be lost. What do you do if you have more limited resources than before, but need to spread them around the entire country?
Why would anyone with honest intentions give money to the SNP given their recent scandal?
The only sorts of people willing to pony up at this point would be mendacious people looking to dictate terms, do as I say and you’ll get your money. That sounds an awful lot like… _lobbying_? And pandering to your donors?
Never mind only Tories do that the snp never would eh
They had a battle campervan for campaigning, maybe Police Scotland will let them use it for a month or two.