Some quick reflections on the SNP internal election results
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First of all - this isn’t anything remotely resembling regime change. Mike Russell won the vote for party president by a landslide (though Craig Murray came up on a surprisingly high 25% of the vote). As far as I can tell, the leadership still has a fairly comfortable majority on the National Executive Committee, the party’s ultimate governing body. However, the dominant story of the night is the success (surprising to some but not me) of anti-GRA candidates across the elections, and the defeat of pro-GRA incumbents. The most horrifying results of the night (Caroline McAllister for Women’s convener, Lynne Anderson for Equalities) speak for themselves. Both of them are notorious social media trolls and one actually helped found a hate group. Unsurprisingly, this has been accompanied by a wave of online bile targeted at activists from the youth, student and LGBT+ affiliates of the party. There has to be some introspection over how we got to this point.
Some quick reflections on the SNP internal election results
Some quick reflections on the SNP internal…
Some quick reflections on the SNP internal election results
First of all - this isn’t anything remotely resembling regime change. Mike Russell won the vote for party president by a landslide (though Craig Murray came up on a surprisingly high 25% of the vote). As far as I can tell, the leadership still has a fairly comfortable majority on the National Executive Committee, the party’s ultimate governing body. However, the dominant story of the night is the success (surprising to some but not me) of anti-GRA candidates across the elections, and the defeat of pro-GRA incumbents. The most horrifying results of the night (Caroline McAllister for Women’s convener, Lynne Anderson for Equalities) speak for themselves. Both of them are notorious social media trolls and one actually helped found a hate group. Unsurprisingly, this has been accompanied by a wave of online bile targeted at activists from the youth, student and LGBT+ affiliates of the party. There has to be some introspection over how we got to this point.