Jan Vojáček Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 5 minutes ago, Dunning1874 said: I continue to be stunned that Ash Regan is a real person. I see a lot of press releases every day from politicians at work. But fair play to her. That's the first time one has ever made me audibly laugh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 7 minutes ago, Dunning1874 said: I continue to be stunned that Ash Regan is a real person. Fucking hell. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 3 minutes ago, ScotiaNostra said: what was the amount of members last time it was formally announced and when was that? 103,884 in December 2021. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eez-eh Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 4 minutes ago, Jan Vojáček said: I see a lot of press releases every day from politicians at work. But fair play to her. That's the first time one has ever made me audibly laugh. Me too. Thought it was a parody at first. What a slogan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 11 minutes ago, Dunning1874 said: I continue to be stunned that Ash Regan is a real person. I might actually check Twitter when the results are announced and she gets about 3%. The breakdown is going to be absolutely magnificent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 12 minutes ago, Dunning1874 said: I continue to be stunned that Ash Regan is a real person. Bloody hell, are the media team lifting lines from the Bob the Builder handbook? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 1 minute ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: Alba candidate Kirk Torrance is part of her team. The sooner she fucks off there, the better. I was talking about Forbes, he's backing Regan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 Just me that thought it odd that Regan's letter claimed to also be on the behalf of Forbes and her team, yet nobody apparently thought to ask either Forbes or anyone from her team to act as a counter-signatory? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 9 minutes ago, Bodie said: My alias uncovered. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 2 minutes ago, welshbairn said: I was talking about Forbes, he's backing Regan. I realised that after I posted. Torrance being on board for Regan explains everything about her campaign. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said: Just me that thought it odd that Regan's letter claimed to also be on the behalf of Forbes and her team, yet nobody apparently thought to ask either Forbes or anyone from her team to act as a counter-signatory? Forbes had her own letter. Edited March 16, 2023 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 8 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said: Just me that thought it odd that Regan's letter claimed to also be on the behalf of Forbes and her team, yet nobody apparently thought to ask either Forbes or anyone from her team to act as a counter-signatory? No, it smacked of a brief conversation in the hall turned into "lets fuckin do this" by Ash - who seems to be off the scale mental. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 Just now, welshbairn said: Forbes had her own letter. Indeed, but that doesn't alter the fact that it's decidedly odd to write a formal letter and claim within it to be acting on someone else's behalf, then not even bother to have them verify that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 So they've lost close to 1/3 of their members since December 2021. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 Ash Regans "campaign website" is a thing to behold. Heres the latest link about the membership numbers - https://voteashregan.com/snp-membership-number-release/ I particularly liked this section which mentions that the drop in numbers "quickened" the First Ministers resignation.............. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 2 minutes ago, Bodie said: So they've lost close to 1/3 of their members since December 2021. For balance the conservative party has 172000 members UK wide, so the SNP is not exactly "in meltdown". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 I'm not overly surprised by the decline since the Dec'21 number. I've gone through my own bank statements and scrutinised expenditure umpteen times since then, binned off quite a few things I felt I could no longer justify the spend on, and I can understand why someone might think that paying a membership fee to a political party is not a justifiable expense when they can, if they choose, still support them come polling time. I also think there were a lot of people who felt motivated to join the party around the time of the NS attempted stitch-up in Feb'21 who would have perhaps backed off a bit once their ire had waned somewhat. Interesting that SNP fees are variable and at the discretion of the individual member, so I wonder if a lot of the members who might have relinquished their membership because of cost were folk who were giving an amount that was perfectly affordable for them a while back, but suddenly looks quite different against the backdrop of the CoL crisis. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 7 minutes ago, Bodie said: So they've lost close to 1/3 of their members since December 2021. A start date that neatly coincides with Sturgeon and Leitch's Omicron 'circuit breaker'. That was the one where a shan cold variant in South Africa conveniently stopped scum football fans from going to games or young people going to a bar - but not old biddies from attending churches or snivelling weans from going to the plague factory. Good to see many thousands of others cancelled their DD either around that farce or similar hopeless lurches in government since. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Khaki Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 Yip, for once I'd agree about handling of Covid being a factor. I was as pro-NS as anyone and I was fucking livid with her handling of the Omicron period. No surprise to see Regan attempt to pin it all on GRR though, when that has been a policy goal since 2016. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 It was certainly Covid decisions that made many on here resign or say they couldn't vote for them again, people who left because of GRR had probably joined Alba a while back. I don't see how Regan could have known the number of members in October, she's making it up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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