Nicola Sturgeon has denied the SNP is in crisis as the party was forced to admit that more than 40% 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%| (31,698) on the last published count of 103,884 at the end of 2021, barely 14 months ago.
Ms. Sturgeon insisted her 89-year-old party was experiencing “growing pains” during the contest.
Just the latest instance of go woke, go broke. Will they ever learn?
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Meanwhile these members will get to vote for the next leader of the party who are still in charge. The Scottish people still have to put up with whatever nonsense the SNP + Greens come up with until the next election. The ill effects of that partnership will linger for sometime.
Everything comes to she / he / they who wait…or not, in some instances 😂 🤣
I bet she’s feeling cranky and rankled.
“Ms. Sturgeon insisted her 89-year-old party was experiencing “growing pains” during the contest.”
Sounds more like dying pains to me!
I would argue that the parties have all become ‘uniformly left-wing organisations’ instead of right-wing ones. Otherwise, he is correct: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/10/the-party-is-over/
“… Those who lead political parties – and here comes my promised perception – believe they don’t actually need members any more. Almost nobody attends hustings meetings, nobody reads leaflets and nobody engages with canvassers. Elections are now fought almost entirely through the mainstream media, and online.
For the modern campaign, parties need paid PR practitioners and they need paid troll farms. They don’t need little old men and women going door to door, other than once or twice for a candidate photocall.
The members, bluntly, are redundant old nuisances in the eyes of the political class. Nobodies who presume a right to have a say in party policy which should be dictated by the professionals.
Nor do they need the members’ subscription money. Starmer is delighted to have shed hundreds of thousands of Corbyn supporting members, to pursue instead corporate and billionaire money. The SNP Conference in Aberdeen was simply a festival of corporate lobbying. The Tories have always run on dark money in huge tranches.
Then there is the ever increasing largesse of Short money – taxpayer… Read more »
“…. becoming uniformly right wing organisations…. ” Really, is that how you see it? I hope I don’t come across you when out driving on the ‘right’ side of the road!!
Best news since stepping down!
There have been so many final nails in the SNP coffin, like their idea to criminalise what people say in their own living rooms under absurd Hate Speech Laws, or the Named Person Scheme, whereby a government appointed person like a teacher or other professional would observe and report back to government on the “welfare” of each child up to the age of 16 (or maybe 18). Yet Scots still backed this anti English, Anti Tory bunch of eco socialists that wanted to pour concrete in oil and gas wells, in a kind of scorched earth pact with the commy Greens. But I am so glad to see that Scots have finally been aroused from their sleepwalking, and it took this insidious gender garbage to awaken them.
“But I am so glad to see that Scots have finally been aroused from their sleepwalking”
I hope you are right but the jury is still out on this as far as I am concerned.
“aroused from their sleepwalking” does not imply that the party is over for the SNP. I don’t for one second take that for granted. But I speak to a lot of SNP supporters, and what I see is that they mainly vote SNP because they HATE tories.. They think somehow that if they get away from Westminster and run off with the Germans that they will be in control of their own affairs. —-They could not be more wrong. All they would be in the EU is Local Administrators putting in place diktats from Brussels. They have blinkers on when it comes to all the Gender, Hate Speech absurd eco policies that wants rid of oil and gas. All they see is “I hate tories”. These same people used to vote Labour, till they fell out of love with Blair, so they started to vote for the only other bunch of socialists available. The SNP ——I am hoping that these parasites are now on the way out, but I never assume.
As a person living in Scotland for the last 30 years and was in politics – you are spot on and you most probably live in Scotland to know that. Peopl ‘Down South’ have no real concept of the anti English feeling that permeates throughout Scotland. The support for SNPs has no logic whatsoever, and particularly when one looks at the policy debacle in education, health and commerce – it is almost entirely driven by being anti English and anti Tory.
Good points.
“absurd Hate Speech Laws, or the Named Person Scheme, whereby a government appointed person like a teacher or other professional would observe and report back to government”
Or witch finder general, as he/they/them used to be known! 🧙♀️
One does have to worry about the 72k who are left…
1/3 are Muslim.
1/3 LGBTQZ+++.
1/3 Retarded.
Any Scottish at all?🤣
Not known as the Special Needs Party for nothing..
😀 😀 😀
Muslim number far too high. Glasgow neds and Dundee tossers increase the retarded by 100% and the number of Queers is about right
Absolutely marvellous news. What a grand way to start the weekend.
Oh dear, never mind. Next WEF toss pot please.
Couldn’t agree more 👍
When fantasy and reality meet, there is only one winner.