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This beats "Shall I be the cat?" Sounds like a learning English tuition video. Repeat after me:

This. Remember the various 'stalking horses' that challenged various Tory and Labour leaders in recent decades. I can't even remember all their names. It was all a waste of time, a media frenzy, a distraction. The unionist media would have loved it. They scream "stitch-up" now, but if he had stood, it would have been "SNP in split". The exception (supporting the 'healthy democracy' view) was Jeremy Corbyn who maybe stood as an outsider, but he was representing a well established tradition/position/wing of the party. As others have said or implied, in a normal country we could support the idealism of 'healthy debate' but in a country where most parties and media are controlled from outside the country, different rules apply.

Sounds like top trolling to me.

Thanks 👍

Thanks. That makes (more) sense. It implies the SNP machine is still working, not broken chaotically, albeit working towards its own ends? Even so, if you believe independence is best served by a strong electoral performance by the SNP in the next election(s), then presumably the 'coup' (or whatever it is) could be seen as a good thing. If you think independence is best served by the SNP being first destroyed then replaced, then presumably not such a good thing. I guess my view is that I find it harder to believe option 2 would work as readily as its supporters seem to think. I can see the attraction of being a bit more bold or bolshie and not 'begging for a section 30' and so on, but I don't see what the actual plan would be to gain independence in the face of an intransigent British state... The only half-credible option seems to be using an election majority as a de facto referendum, but it's hard to see how that would work by destroying the main pro indy party. It would seem the SNP should be the party to attempt it, but if so it needs to be in fine electoral fettle. And even then it would need the British state to agree to abide by the result.

Thanks. So how was he stitched up? Sounds as if he was pushed?

Any chance (anyone) of a one sentence summary of 'how Humza was stitched up'? (I had a click, it's 47 minutes and the entire first minute is an Alex Salmond intro...)