Full story on www.wingsoverscotland.com While it’s often said (mainly by nationalist types) that the Scottish Parliament and its electoral system were specifically designed to prevent the SNP from coming to power and holding an independence referendum, there’s been very little in the way of explicit evidence to back that statement up. The 27 April 1997 issue of the Scottish Sun, though, had it in spades. So we thought we should save it from Twitter’s fleeting attention span for posterity.  
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The SNP** used to be the only party that can ‘stand up for Scotland’. But that is no longer true – because Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party is now also standing up for Scotland. And in the general election contest in Edinburgh West on 8 June 2017, only Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party can stand up and give a voice to all voters who want to stand up for Scotland. Mark R. Whittet, Leader of Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party – who is the SIRP prospective parliamentary candidate for Edinburgh West – said: “Because of the particular circumstances relating to the Edinburgh West
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Full Story from www.theconversation.com The only way to break the emerging rightist hegemony. PA/David Mirzoeff It’s already becoming clear that every party except the Conservatives fears the outcome of the impending general election. Even for the SNP, which will no doubt hold on to – if not improve upon – its standing in the last election, the prospect of an increased Tory majority is not a welcome one. Barring a massive Labour recovery – and barring the impact of unplanned events, so crucial in politics – it appears this is almost certainly the outcome to expect. But even if that
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Full story from www.wingsoverscotland.com Posted on April 28, 2017 by Rev. Stuart Campbell Following on from Ian Murray’s last night, we received another election leaflet from an alert reader today, this time one delivered to them by the Scottish Conservatives. Let’s just look at that highlighted section again. Now, “the SNP should try to improve schools and grow the economy, and we’ll oppose them every step of the way” initially sounds like a comedy misprint. Except the thing is, it’s what the Tories actually do. Roughly 99 times out of every 100 the Scottish Government brings forward a policy proposal intending to improve the lives
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  Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party may put up candidates against the SNP in Glasgow East – where the SNP is now a ‘soiled brand’ after the former SNP MP Natalie McGarry has been charged with fraud offences  – and also in the highly marginal Berwickshire seat in the Borders.   The SNP are defending the marginal Edinburgh West seat in the general election with a slender majority of 3.6% over the Liberals.   But the SNP has sacked its two MPs in Edinburgh West and Glasgow East amid allegations of sleaze. It has not announced candidates for these two seats.   Mark R Whittet, Leader, Scotland’s
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The SNP has postponed a meeting due to be held today (Saturday 21 Apr 2017) to select the party’s prospective parliamentary candidate for the Edinburgh West seat. Mark R Whittet, Leader of Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party (SIRP) – who is also the SIRP candidate for Edinburgh West – said today: “After the scandal involving allegations of business impropriety over Michelle Thomson – who won the seat as MP for the SNP – the SNP is a now a ‘soiled brand’ in Edinburgh West. “If the SNP decide to put up a candidate in Edinburgh West against Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party
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Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party has asked the SNP to join with the SIRP in a ‘progressive alliance’ to maximise the Scottish Independence vote. SIRP leader Mark R. Whittet has written to his SNP counterpart, Nicola Sturgeon, with proposals for both parties to collaborate in both the forthcoming British general election and also the next Holyrood general election. This is because of the thousands of ‘wasted’ SNP second preference votes in the proportional representation system used to elect MSPs to Scotland’s Parliament. As a result of the SNP’s dominant lead in the first-preference vote, the party won most of the constituency
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