One week out from a general election, the SNP are busy purging the “problematic”, as seen in this footage captured by a terrified bystander tonight somewhere in Fife.
The latest victim of the Waffen YSI, the party’s ultra-pious “woke” youth battalion, is Denise Findlay, a recently-elected member of the party’s Conduct Committee. She was targeted because she’s a gender-critical feminist opposed to the transgender cult which exerts a wildly disproportionate influence in the SNP upper echelons, supported enthusiastically by the First Minister.
She follows on the heels of Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath candidate Neale Hanvey, who last week was suspended from the party – without even a hearing – on a ludicrously trumped-up charge of “anti-Semitism” dredged up by SNP woke youth, namely that three-and-a-half years ago he shared an article (written by someone else) about billionaire financier George Soros and money-laundering, which at no point mentioned either Israel or Jewish people, even obliquely.
This led to the extraordinary farce of the SNP leader not only withdrawing all support and party funds, but publicly ordering party members not to campaign for Hanvey, in the near-certain knowledge that this would gift the seat to a Unionist party (it’s currently held, by fewer than 300 votes, by hapless Labour idiot and shadow Scottish Secretary, Lesley Laird).
Hanvey, like Findlay, was brought down not by political opponents or the media but by members of his own party, as punishment for signing the SNP Women’s Pledge.
This entirely innocuous document, which has been signed by over 3000 people, asserts the commitment to a number of uncontroversial women’s rights.
But it’s regarded with absolutely toxic fury by transgender activists within the party, who view anything other than complete and unquestioning submission to the claim that “transwomen are women” to be a thoughtcrime meriting instant expulsion.
Having failed to drive out candidates and officebearers for the crime of disputing whether women have penises or not, the trans faction changed tack last week and began scouring the social media history of “offenders” for content which could be misrepresented as “anti-Semitic”, since anti-Semitism is an issue which enjoys more widespread public traction, and Hanvey and Findlay are the first to be victimised.
(The tactic was likely inspired by last year’s Labour-driven witch-hunt against SNP member, former journalist and blogger Gareth “Grouse Beater” Wardell, although that case had no connection to the trans issue.)
Findlay’s tweets concerned the disputed definition of anti-Semitism which says that likening any actions of the Israeli state to actions of Nazi Germany automatically equates to hatred of the Jews, no matter how directly valid the comparison might be in any given situation.
This site has no intention of wading into the politics of the Middle East, but it is not controversial to note that some of Israel’s actions against the Palestinian people have been widely condemned worldwide for human-rights abuses on a massive and grave scale. It cannot be acceptable to simply forbid the observation of facts as intrinsically constituting anti-Semitic bigotry, because that gives one state alone a free pass to crimes against humanity.
But in any event, those attacking the likes of Neale Hanvey and Denise Findlay care absolutely nothing about Jewish people. Their sole goal is to use spurious allegations of anti-Semitism as a tool to purge the SNP of “wrongthinkers” – and in Findlay’s specific case to remove from the party’s Conduct Committee someone who might have blocked similar attacks by the Woke Thought Police on other “undesirables”.
This is the SNP’s own Night Of The Long Knives, but with more colourful handles.
(Naturally Wings itself has also been on the receiving end of these smears, but since we answer to nobody but our readers they have no effect.)
(We’ve also been the subject today of a lengthy renewed diatribe from the extreme trans fundamentalist currently ironically occupying the office of SNP Women’s Convener, Rhiannon Spear, who lambasted this site’s hundreds of thousands of readers – around a quarter of the SNP’s total vote in the 2017 election – as a slavish “cult” fit only to be condemned and shunned by all right-thinking nationalists.)
These activities would have been bad enough at any time. To undertake them days before perhaps the most crucial general election in living memory, sabotaging the party’s own prospects (Hanvey was suspended well after the deadline for replacing candidates, so there’s now no official SNP representative on the ballot) and very likely increasing the number of Unionist seats, is unforgivable narcissistic destructiveness.
We can only assume that the Woko Haram Misogyny Juniors in the party looked at the havoc a manufactured anti-Semitism crisis has wreaked in Labour and decided “Hey, what we really need is a piece of THAT super-fun action. Denunciations a-go-go!“
All of it is taking place with the tacit (and sometimes explicit) approval of the First Minister. This site can no longer stand by silently and watch the Yes movement be destroyed by infiltrators and entryists who have hijacked the SNP as a vehicle to undemocratically force through their own massively unpopular agenda, with no interest in the party’s primary goal.
(Many have openly said they’d rather not vote at all than vote for SNP candidates who believe in single-sex rights for women. Others, astonishingly, have expressed a wish to go to Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and actively campaign for Labour.)
So we’ll say what we’ve felt for quite a while now but bitten our tongue on in the name of the movement: regardless of the outcome of next week’s election, Nicola Sturgeon needs to stand down, and the sooner the better. In this site’s view, there is no chance whatsoever of independence being achieved under her leadership, and to be honest it’s been some time since we’ve believed she was even trying.
The woke-infested SNP is a trainwreck. It’s time to get it back on the track.
