This is the SNP’s latest messaging. Ministers, MSPs, payroll drones and the central party account were all tweeting variations on the line yesterday.
And it’s quite difficult even just to count the number of different ways in which it’s not just mind-bogglingly offensive, but also clatteringly, jaw-droppingly stupid.
We’re not going to list them all here, because it’d take all day, but we’ll pick out a couple of examples off the top of our head by way of illustration.
Firstly, the “story” – such as it is – is that Anas Sarwar has ruled out forming a coalition with Reform, but hasn’t ruled out accepting votes from them on individual issues.
This is in itself so fatuous that it makes our heads hurt to spell it out. It’s not like he has a choice in the matter. If he were to somehow end up as First Minister and brought forward a bill that Reform agreed with, and their votes made the difference between it passing and not passing, that’s just how politics works. He can’t order them NOT to vote for it, or tell the Presiding Officer not to count their votes.
Not only is that how politics works, it’s how it SHOULD work, and it’s exactly how it worked from 2007 to 2011, when the minority SNP needed Tory votes to pass their budgets, as Angus Robertson knows full well. In a Parliament designed not to have majorities, you take votes where you can find them, even if that means the rapists, paedophile-enablers and nappy-fetishists of the Scottish Greens. Arithmetic has no moral high ground, and seemingly hypocrisy has no limits.
Secondly, although Angus Robertson is still listed as the Managing Director of a polling company that’s commissioned exactly one poll in the last four years, he doesn’t seem to be keeping up with the polls. At the moment it doesn’t look much like ANYONE is going to be voting for Anas Sarwar, whether they want to get Nigel Farage as a result or not.
But that brings us to the main point. As we’ve been documenting for some time, voters both north and south of the border are currently – and entirely justifiably – sick to the back teeth of “mainstream” politicians and abandoning the traditional parties in record numbers.
They’re absolutely desperate to give them all a proper kicking, and Robertson and the SNP (and indeed Sarwar) have just sent the electorate the clearest possible message about which outcome the people they despise – Robertson and Sarwar and their pals – would hate the most: votes for Reform.
“The thing that would upset us the most of all”, say the people who the voters loathe with a passion and would ideally like to see skinned alive, tarred and feathered, dragged through a sewer and then thrown down a mineshaft forever, “is if you elect a bunch of Reform MSPs”.
Of all the thousands of good reasons the people of Scotland have to detest the inhabitants of Holyrood, we think their rank, contemptuous, arrogant, unthinking, unbelievable sheer stupidity might just be the biggest.
