Largely funded by Salmond true believers and transphobes in narrative, so no surprise with Salmond in the ground and Swinney changing his tune on trans rights. But I also suspect a schism that cost the SNP last Holyrood election at least a few seats. And, a place to show dissatisfaction with the handling of independence, they also regularly spoke out against the Scottish Government. Reportedly with 5,000 members also. Making this a mixed bag for a party dissapearing in Scotland, we are both richer (mostly) and poorer (slightly) for the loss of The Alba Party (2021-2026)
Everything just keeps going the SNPs way. All they need now is for the greens to totally screw it and they will have total control. Not saying that’s good or bad just find it funny given where the SNP were only a couple of years ago.
Huh. Well I hadn’t heard much from them in a while
While I am firmly entrenched in the camp that Alba is (or was, now, lol) a bunch of raging arseholes, I do still hold that it feels like “conservative pro-indy” is something of an obvious gap in the market in Scottish politics. Alba seemed like they were trying to fill that. Maybe it’s less of a position than I think it is, but with the likes of Forbes in the SNP it definitely exists
