January 2018, with no general election due for four and a half years: “I very rarely talk about Scottish independence in the chamber, because I talk about things that matter”
June 2024, with an election in four weeks and a £91,346 salary, expenses and pension at stake: “ROBERT THE BRUCE! BANNOCKBURN! DECLARATION OF ARBROATH! FLOWER OF SCOTLAND! FREEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOMMMM!”
We suppose at least it distracts her from wondering what sex she is.
(Yes, we do know the Bruce isn’t actually holding the Declaration there, but we bet you a million pounds Kirsty couldn’t tell you what it is any more than she knows what her chromosomes are.)
(Two years after that Guardian interview, the SNP made Blackman its “key strategic lead on the constitution” to show just how little it cared about it.)
All snark and mockery aside, please don’t elect her again, readers in Aberdeen, unless you want her to instantly shut up about independence again for another half-decade the day after the vote. It’s not like she hasn’t warned you.
And people everywhere else, don’t make the mistake of thinking that any other SNP candidate is any different. Blackman’s just the only one thick enough to say it out loud.
