|
|
Post by zenfootball2 on Mar 14, 2023 13:25:07 GMT 1
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/new-poll-on-snp-makes-dismal-reading-for is dismal reading for SNP -leadership-frontrunner/ar-AA18zSXY?ocid "Twice as many Scots think Humza Yousaf would be a bad first minister compared with those who think he would do a good job, a new poll has suggested.More than six out of 10 Scots polled also think Mr Yousaf is doing a bad job of running the crisis-hit NHS, according to the damning poll published as he said independence would be his top priority if he becomes first minister. The YouGov survey for Sky News found 44 per cent thought Mr Yousaf would be a bad first minister compared with only 22 per cent who said he would do a good job. Asked about his leadership rivals, 27 per cent thought Kate Forbes would be a good first minister and 36 per cent a bad leader. The figures for Ash Regan were 14 per cent and 39 per cent, respectively." "Even among SNP voters, more than a third (37 per cent) thought the Sturgeon government was performing poorly on the NHS, amid widespread doubts about Mr Yousaf's competence."
|
|
|
|
Post by northwestman on Mar 17, 2023 9:57:21 GMT 1
Nicola Sturgeon has denied the SNP is in crisis as the party was forced to admit that more than 40 per cent of its members have quit and her self-ID gender reforms were blamed for a recent mass exodus.
After weeks of refusing to provide the figure, the SNP said only 72,186 members were eligible to vote in the leadership contest - a drop of more than 50,000 on the 125,000 total the Nationalists boasted of in 2019.
In an astonishing decline, the total is believed to have dropped by more than 10,000 in this year alone as Ms Sturgeon became embroiled in a toxic political scandal over her self-ID gender reforms.
The membership tally also represents a drop of more than 30 per cent (31,698) on the last published count of 103,884 at the end of 2021, barely 14 months ago.
The SNP was forced to disclose the membership fall after two of the three leadership candidates wrote to Peter Murrell, Ms Sturgeon's husband and the party's chief executive, challenging him to release the figures.
Kate Forbes and Ash Regan demanded the disclosure after their previous calls for the information were met with silence.
Daily Telegraph.
|
|
|
|
Post by kenwood on Mar 17, 2023 11:59:54 GMT 1
Its been said that SNP supporters , although wanting to see Scotland gain independence , have been less than impressed with Sturgeon’s performance overall. They quote the failing health service, a demise in education standards and a complete mess surrounding the building of 2 CalMac ferries way over budget and years behind the expected delivery dates .
There’s also the question of donations to the party - where’s it gone. I think the inference is that it’s not been syphoned off into someone’s account but rather used for other purposes rather than to fund the party .
Overall the general consensus is that Sturgeon has focused on independence alone and forgotten that there are other important issues to be tackled for the benefit of all.
Now she’s chucked the towel in and left others to sort out the mess which, it has to be said, they were party to.
Yes, a party striving to take Scotland away from the Union and possibly back into Europe whilst under performing in key areas.
Looks like people have had enough and have made their views known by relinquishing their party membership.
Sturgeon of course denies the SNP is in crisis , to do otherwise would confirm that her time in office has ended up as a disaster .
The big question for Starmer is whether Labour can take advantage .
|
|
|
|
Post by zenfootball2 on Mar 17, 2023 14:35:01 GMT 1
Its been said that SNP supporters , although wanting to see Scotland gain independence , have been less than impressed with Sturgeon’s performance overall. They quote the failing health service, a demise in education standards and a complete mess surrounding the building of 2 CalMac ferries way over budget and years behind the expected delivery dates . There’s also the question of donations to the party - where’s it gone. I think the inference is that it’s not been syphoned off into someone’s account but rather used for other purposes rather than to fund the party . Overall the general consensus is that Sturgeon has focused on independence alone and forgotten that there are other important issues to be tackled for the benefit of all. Now she’s chucked the towel in and left others to sort out the mess which, it has to be said, they were party to. Yes, a party striving to take Scotland away from the Union and possibly back into Europe whilst under performing in key areas. Looks like people have had enough and have made their views known by relinquishing their party membership. Sturgeon of course denies the SNP is in crisis , to do otherwise would confirm that her time in office has ended up as a disaster . The big question for Starmer is whether Labour can take advantage . "The big question for Starmer is whether Labour can take advantage ." It is the big question; but polls and we know how unreliable they are show only a minimal gain for labour, it is a great shame that Scotland under the SNP and Westminister under the conservatives have had such inept goverments. by any measure ,fiscal responsibilty, education, health law and order both have failed misrably and yet the SNP keep on getting into power as does the conservatives. |
|
|
|
Post by zenfootball2 on Mar 17, 2023 14:57:01 GMT 1
|
|
|
|
Post by zenfootball2 on Mar 18, 2023 15:29:37 GMT 1
There is no Inadveretly about it Peter Murrell he instructed a person to mislead the press. news.sky.com/story/snp-chief-executive-peter-murrell-resigns-12836882SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, who is married to Nicola Sturgeon, has resigned with immediate effect in the face of a no confidence vote,The 58-year-old's dramatic departure after more than two decades in the post comes after the SNP's head of communications quit on Friday after it emerged he inadvertently provided bogus membership numbers to a journalist. Murray Foote was told to deny reports the party had lost 30,000 members branding them "inaccurate" and " drivel".Ahead of Mr Murrell's announcement, a senior member of the SNP's governing body told Sky News: "The buck stops with Peter... he shouldn't have thrown a junior member of staff under the bus". |
|
|
|
Post by zenfootball2 on Mar 18, 2023 15:34:31 GMT 1
It is strange that neither Sturegon or her husband have yet been interviewd by the police. www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/peter-murrell-mystery-no-mention-29433302"The mystery surrounding Peter Murrell and the probe into the SNP's missing £600k has deepened after it was revealed that Scottish Government ministers have not mentioned him in three months. And despite the controversy surrounding him loaning the SNP £107k of his own money, none of the cabinet were briefed on what to say if journalists asked questions about him." Rumors abounded that Nicola Sturgeon's resignation as First Minister was linked to the Police Scotland fraud investigation into her party. But she rejected those reports in her speech following her shock announcement where she said that "short-term pressures" were not the reason for her hastily quitting." |
|
|
|
Post by zenfootball2 on Mar 18, 2023 15:40:10 GMT 1
|
|
|
|
Post by northwestman on Mar 19, 2023 10:14:36 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/18/snp-chief-executive-peter-murrell-resigns-nicola-sturgeonThe chief executive of the Scottish National party has resigned with immediate effect as an escalating row over party membership figures engulfs the party’s senior echelons, prompting demands for an overhaul of how it carries out its internal business. Peter Murrell, who has been chief executive since 2000 and married Nicola Sturgeon in 2010, said he had planned to step down after the leadership contest to replace his wife had concluded, but was doing so now because “my future has become a distraction from the campaign”. Murrell’s position became untenable after the party’s head of communications, Murray Foote, resigned on Friday evening, saying he had been given false information to feed to the media about the disputed membership figures by “colleagues at party HQ”. Sturgeon's resignation prompted further speculation about a Police Scotland investigation into the fate of £600,000 donated to the SNP for its next independence referendum campaign, and Murrell’s loan of £107,000 to the party to “assist with cashflow” after the 2021 Holyrood election campaign.
|
|
|
|
Post by zenfootball2 on Mar 19, 2023 15:29:57 GMT 1
|
|
|
|
Post by zenfootball2 on Mar 19, 2023 15:59:11 GMT 1
It seems that the SNP have a lot of questions to be answered ,equally it was only the greens who saved Sturgeon from losing a vote of no confidence for alegedly misleading parliment . ironically whicxh is what her husband has now resign for doing exactly that. www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/6859883/nicola-sturgeon-cleared-no-confidence-vote-fail/22march 2021 "Last week, a committee of MSPs concluded that the SNP chief did mislead the Alex Salmond inquiry and gave “an inaccurate account” of meetings with her predecessor under oath. But the Hamilton Inquiry, carried out by the independent adviser to the Government on the ministerial code, found that Ms Sturgeon " did not breach the provisions of the code" in any of the matters reviewed. And following the findings, Mr Harvie has confirmed the pro-indy Greens will not back the vote of no confidence." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11877155/SNP-chief-Paul-Murrell-forced-quit-revelations-party-lied-membership-numbers.html"The SNP is facing demands to rerun its leadership contest after the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon's husband as the party's chief executive. Peter Murrell admitted that he had misled party members and the Scottish public on the size of the electorate. There have been claims since that bogus numbers were being used to inflate support for Humza Yousaf - seen as the continuity candidate after Ms Sturgeon's shock resignation. Now sources close to one of his rivals, Ash Regan, have demanded the contest is restarted and existing ballot papers discarded. 'The ballot needs to be rerun,' a source close to Ms Regan told The Telegraph. 'If members knew what they know now would they have voted the same way? 'My suspicion is that for many, the answer is no. They are entitled to reconsider now that they have more information. 'If there is not a rerun and Humza wins, his position would become untenable very quickly,' they added. 'I doubt he would even make it to being confirmed as First Minister.'" "Our reporters approached the private company in charge of running the SNP leadership ballot, Mi-Voice, to secure the true figures. A source at the Southampton-based polling firm said it had received the names of only around three-quarters of the 104,000 members touted by the SNP. The news sent shockwaves across Scotland, with many concerned about the risk of election rigging, given the opaque nature of the contest. Leadership candidates Ms Forbes and Ash Regan pressured party HQ over the figures until eventually, on Thursday, the SNP admitted membership as of February 15 this year was 72,186, down from 103,884 in 2021." |
|
|
|
Post by stuttgartershrew on Mar 20, 2023 10:07:05 GMT 1
The Daily Mail are having a field day with this as I think it was they who reported on the drop in membership which the SNP then refuted. It's an absolute mess up there at the moment. A house of cards comes to mind, as does the old adage that every political career ends in failure.
I do think Regan has a point and you do have to wonder why the SNP would wish to falsify the numbers. It's reported that Yousaf is the preferred candidate of the SNP establishment and so people are now asking whether they were looking to keep this hidden so as not to damage his credentials as the continuity candidate. They reckon more than 10,000 have left the party this year alone. So if that is the case, there can be a very good argument against more of the same (which will no doubt benefit Forbes and Regan).
|
|
