BBC Radio 4 - Leading Scotland Where? Indeed, where WAS the GRR fiasco?

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In BBC Radio 4's report about the SNP, Leading Scotland Where?, apparently initially planned to mark the 70th anniversary of the party's founding, Nick Eardley made only the briefest possible mention of the GRR Act debacle. Yet at the time of Nicola Sturgeon's resignation as first minister that was widely assumed to be directly connected to her decision to stand down, not least after her bumbling response to questions about male rapist Isla Bryant being sent to the female prison estate for assessment shortly after Holyrood passed the Act.

Of course, events in relation to financial affairs within the SNP that have subsequently become prominent might well have also played a large part in her decision, but it seems to me that the programme underplayed the possible role of self-id in the first feminist's downfall:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l4tt

Yet at the time of Nicola Sturgeon's resignation as first minister that was widely assumed to be directly connected to her decision to stand down,

Well it wasn't the reason and quite a lot of people thought it wasn't the reason.

And in the whole scheme of how damaging the SNP is for Scotland it doesn't even scrape into the top 10.

The SNP have been damaging for Scotland for years - you only need to look at the education & health stats to see the SNP administration hasn’t exactly covered itself in glory. So why did NS resign when she did? It did look like the fallout from the GRR as OP says, or it may have been a realisation that the financial issues were all about to come crashing down.
I do miss the FIRSTFEMINIST here though, her contributions were always very amusing 😁

Wings over Scotland called it right.

AHM NAE DEED YET

The plummet in membership figures was due to the GRR debacle though given the timing. I think it might have contributed.

Not away on holiday in the luxury motorhome campaign bus then, Nic?

I think this article is spot on and more illuminating than that programme, tbh. Also highly entertaining:

http://robinmcalpine.org/the-desperate-need-to-get-a-grip-and-how-to-do-it/

Thanks, Arabella that was a great article - as was the one in The Critic that he linked to: https://archive.ph/AGYIa

Was MacAlpine in the party himself? It's a very pithy piece of writing !

Wiki says no, but he was with Common Weal.

Sorry... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_McAlpine

Good old socialist then.