She used to work for the BBC
on Daily Politics
and Radio 4.


Experience pays off.

SNP loses another by-election as jubilant Conservatives take Dunblane-Bridge
of Allan with 10-point boost


The Scottish Conservatives are celebrating a win at Stirling Council after
securing a win against the SNP at a by-election.

This puts the Nats at a disadvantage with just seven representatives on the
local authority compared to the Tories who now have eight members.

The by-election for Dunblane-Bridge of Allan followed the death of SNP
councillor Graham Houston who passed away in December last year and the
vote result is the latest in a line of political losses for the Nats.

Oh dear

JK Rowling brought down Sturgeon… and she’ll bring down Humza Yousaf too
 

The mood at SNP meetings must be pretty low just now. Even so, I’d love to have been a fly on the wall during the
brainstorming session for Humza Yousaf’s latest photo op.

“Right, guys, I’m announcing my plan to promote women’s rights. So for the photo I need some kind of visual
metaphor that shows female voters how seriously I take them. Any ideas?”

“How about you hold up a nice, cute pink heart? That’s the kind of thing the girlies like, bless them.”

Sadly for the SNP leadership favourite, however, the resulting photo has gone down particularly badly with a woman no
politician wants to upset. On Twitter, JK Rowling retorted: “What a lovely pink heart. Now tell us why you voted down
the amendment to stop rapists being housed in women’s jails.”

Mr Yousaf should beware: this was only a warning shot. The truth is, no one did more than Ms Rowling to bring down
Nicola Sturgeon – apart, perhaps, from Ms Sturgeon herself. And if, as bookmakers expect, Mr Yousaf becomes
Scotland’s new First Minister next week, Ms Rowling may well bring him down, too. At least, if he refuses to abandon
his predecessor’s policy on gender self-ID.

Surely Ms Sturgeon’s downfall has taught him it’s political Kryptonite. Even Sir Keir Starmer is now tiptoeing anxiously
away from the idea. Yet the SNP front-runner did pledge to take the UK Government to court to force self-ID through.

Mr Yousaf has described himself as the SNP’s “continuity candidate”. I suspect he’s right. Continuity is exactly what he
can provide – by causing another furious row over gender, and then resigning.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnis...-humza-yousaf/

We get the New Leader Result
on Monday.


Good it will all be over.

All over for the SNP.

Good Point

Does anyone even care specifically about "gender balanced" Cabinets?

It's a very tokenistic, "2016" thing to do.

I think most people want to see the best, most qualified person for the job get the post, regardless of who they are.

So the new leader is announced this afternoon. I think it very much depends which faction have recently left in their droves and with the weird second preference voting system, it's anyone's guess who will prevail :laugh:

Yes around 2PM

Let's have the new leader

The Conservatives will want the Muslim Yousef to win as he will destroy the SNP. The nasty Greens also only want him to win.

Aside from women's and trans issues, who is the least egregious?

Yousef is the bookies favourite, but none of the polls are reflecting the SNP membership because that is a mystery known only to the SNP party

Kate, by quite some margin

Based on what, broadly? All I've heard about any of them is woman/trans stuff :laugh:

Yes, they are wanting just him in power

Only from Yousef not from Kate or Ash

Ash actually resigned over the self ID bill

One of the reasons Nicky threw in the towel was that the party was completely fractured. It's worse now than labour or the tories have ever been. No leader taking over will be successful

BBC1HD doing a special

The Bloody same will be on BBCnewsHD.

So 2 Channels covering SNP

on now

SkyNewsHD
GBnewsHD
Times Radio

2 BBC channels

They're late

Could be same amounts of votes for each
Then it goes to a 2nd round