The had such promise in 2014, those two, but these days all they do is snipe, living for SNP scandals they can persuade mugs to read about and earn them a living. I suspect their business model is based on Russel Brand.
There are times I wonder about our business model at TuS as we batter-out researched reports to counter Unionist lies for well-under the minimum wage and they just feed lazily on tabloid………….shite.
McAlpine’s latest in an exemplar of projection, projection of your own doubts, with eg:
Sturgeon would still be Narcissus, the Greek tragic hero who so needed to be loved and liked and respected that she couldn’t see that it was dark, murky water and not a mirror. Give her that power again and she would abuse it again. She’d organise the same rockstar launch gigs, create the same culture of total control, tell the same lies when the truth made her look bad, force out the same internal critics, bully the same people.
Petter Murrell is and always was a squirming little Iago, one of life’s inadequates, a deeply unimpressive man manipulating and lying and cheating his way to power and wealth, an odious, crawling little horror.
This is a man once thought special who felt the SNP should listen to his every word and then when they didn’t, sank into a pit of snakes with only the above kind tragedy to offer the people of Scotland.
Stu has only this today:
Peter Murrell wasn’t even locked up in his cell at Saughton (we hope it’s the same one as Craig Murray’s) when the chump-suckering resumed. And as the Nicola Sturgeon Loyal, led by her most faithful of lieutenants, set out to try to take control of the post-conviction narrative, let’s take a look at just what a boatload of bare-faced bullshit the above is.
Everyone in Scotland, not just the SNP’s members or independence supporters, was a victim of Peter Murrell’s crimes. For a start because Operation Branchform cost close to £3 million of public money, dwarfing the £400,000 Murrell pinched to spend on a houseful of frou-frou knick-knacks.
Talk about a bitter wee man and a stupid one too – I am a victim of the Operation Branchform £3m waste of public funds but don’t blame Murrell for that. Any knowledge of the history of the English Empire’s breakup and the security service’s role in trying to stop that, tells us that this was massively inflated and extended, on orders from London, in a desperate attempt to harm the whole SNP and the wider movement. If it was only about Murrell, they could have shut it down in weeks.
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What Sturgeons team did to Salmond rendered them compromised, unless of course they were previously compromised.
Appart from that allegations without foundation of that nature to destroy anyone is unconsionable and renders tham unfit for office
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Salmond chose to do himself what he did, with no one else to blame. Likewise Murrell. Sole efforts of self immolation. I think in Sturgeon, Westminster drove her out of politics, probably the most honest of politicians. There is a clear campaign of killing Scotland to get rid of the only Party that fights for Scotland, and against Unionism.
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John – to ever become a Professor you have to have above average intelligence, but, when it comes to Wee Nippy from Dreghorn, you come across as awfy daft.
She’s a bad yin, aye has been. She remains the worst First Minister we have ever had and she has been a disgrace to Scotland.
I sense, unlike Garth Brookes, she has friends in high places, but, I hope, some day, down in London, they will decide to cut her loose and you and a lot of other good SNP people who have consistently backed her, will have a lot of egg on your faces.
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Please , can I have some of what you have been smokin’ ?
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Nicola Sturgeon was by far the most popular and successful politician in these islands. It never seems to occur to these hate filled critics that the British state would set out to destroy her and her reputation by whatever means necessary.
They did the same to Alex Salmond. I know from a personal acquaintance that there was a grain of truth in the case that framed him. There always is.
Yes Peter Murrell embezzled Party funds. He admits it and will go to jail. I am a SNP member and am angry that he has done this.
But to whine on about Nicola Sturgeon in the hope of destroying her reputation just makes these people useful idiots for a malicious and desperate state.
I have no idea why Humza Yousaf resigned so abruptly. Perhaps his wife’s Palestine connection made him a target.
But – John Swinney must be as clean as a whistle!
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I recall McAlpine lost credibility some time ago over his crass polemics and had to ‘step down’, as they say, from the Common Weal. And he and Campbell have used Sturgeon as an Aunt Sally on a regular basis. (Since his return to blogging, Wings contributions have been desultory and repetitive, his recent US politics bizarre.) Had she not existed I’m sure they would have invented her. The Beater analysis site stopped mentioning her about three years ago. Attacks on her policies became attacks on her character, none of it moving the march to Indy one iota. It was all too predictable – celebrity bloggers, don’tcha love em? Now we have people out for vengeance. We are supposed to be better than our enemies. ‘She must be guilty!’ Police Scotland would have nabbed her if the evidence was there. But I’ll write my own view and publish it this Sunday. More power to your research, John. Speak again soon.
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