THE RESULTS ARE IN.

Posted byiainlawson27Posted inUncategorizedTags:

Interesting numbers involved in the votes for office bearers at SNP conference – maybe not all delegates voted but surely most would have voted for national secretary but only a total of 822 votes! No wonder the party was emailing members the evening before conference asking members if they wanted to be delegates! Annual National Conference Elections 2022


NATIONAL OFFICE BEARERS
PRESIDENT
Michael Russell (Strachur) – Elected unopposed

NATIONAL TREASURER
Colin Beattie (Dalkeith & District) – Elected unopposed

NATIONAL SECRETARY

Lorna Finn – 510
Qasim Hanif – 186
Chris Hanlon – 126

Lorna Finn (Glasgow Provan) – Elected

ORGANISATION CONVENER

Simon Hayter – 173
Jeewantha Kalu Arachchige – 53
Jen Layden – 518

Jen Layden (Glasgow Shettleston) – Elected

LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONVENER

Kelly Parry – 542
Lee Fairfull – 203

Kelly Parry (Bonnyrigg & Loanhead) – Elected

POLICY DEVELOPMENT CONVENER
Toni Giugliano (Southside Central) – Elected unopposed

MEMBER SUPPORT CONVENER

Stage 1
Alexander Belic – 242
Michael Blackshaw – 124
Susi McDonald – 128
Sameeha Rehman – 112
David Stothard – 88

David Stothard eliminated

Stage 2
Alexander Belic – 251
Michael Blackshaw – 145
Susi McDonald – 138
Sameeha Rehman – 138

Susi McDonald and Sameeha Rehman tied. Sameeha Rehman eliminated as had fewer votes at Stage 1.

Stage 3
Alexander Belic – 270
Michael Blackshaw – 165
Susi McDonald – 195

Michael Blackshaw eliminated

Stage 4
Alexander Belic – 303
Susi McDonald – 275

Alexander Belic (Southside Central) – Elected

WOMEN’S CONVENER
Julia Stachurska (Motherwell & Wishaw) – Elected unopposed

EQUALITIES CONVENER

Summer Chen – 166
Kirsteen Fraser – 538

Kirsteen Fraser (Glasgow Anniesland) – Elected

BAME CONVENER

Stage 1
Graham Campbell – 268
Michelle Campbell – 270
Ali Salamati – 99
Oluwole Shokunbi – 78

Ali Salamati and Oluwole Shokunbi eliminated

Stage 2
Graham Campbell – 320
Michelle Campbell – 343

Michelle Campbell (Renfrewshire Riverside) – Elected

DISABLED MEMBERS’ CONVENER
Andy Stuart (Westhill, Kintore, Blackburn) – Elected unopposed

NATIONAL COMMITTEES
ORDINARY MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(TWO Parliamentarians)
Chris Law (Dundee City West) – Elected unopposed
Alison Thewliss (Glasgow Shettleston) – Elected unopposed

REGIONAL MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
CENTRAL SCOTLAND (All-Female List)
Sameeha Rehman (Coatbridge & Chryston) – Elected unopposed

CENTRAL SCOTLAND (Open List)
Linda Fabiani – 37
John Haston – 15
Ali Salamati – 4

Linda Fabiani (East Kilbride) – Elected

GLASGOW (All-Female List)
Shazia Babar – 20
Christina Cannon – 70

Christina Cannon (Glasgow Maryhill & Springburn) – Elected

GLASGOW (Open List)

Stage 1
Malcolm Balfour – 0
Graham Campbell – 23
Jahangir Hanif – 6
Alex Kerr – 38
Norman MacLeod – 17
Oluwole Shokunbi – 8

Malcolm Balfour, Jahangir Hanif and Oluwole Shokunbi eliminated

Stage 2
Graham Campbell – 29
Alex Kerr – 42
Norman MacLeod – 18

Norman MacLeod eliminated

Stage 3
Graham Campbell – 30
Alex Kerr – 56

Alex Kerr (Glasgow Shettleston) – Elected

HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS (All-Female List)
Frances Murray (Lewis & Harris) – Elected unopposed

HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS (Open List)
Ian Cockburn – 58
Munro Ross – 25

Ian Cockburn (Wester Ross) – Elected

LOTHIAN (All-Female List)
Ellie Bird – 69
Sarah Cheung – 8
Susi McDonald – 17

Ellie Bird (Forth) – Elected

LOTHIAN (Open List)

Stage 1
Danny Aston – 49
Michael Blackshaw – 5
Sarah Cheung – 4
Andrew Ewen – 10
Simon Hayter – 6
Susi McDonald – 2
Tom Ullathorne – 23

Susi McDonald eliminated

Stage 2
Danny Aston – 49
Michael Blackshaw – 6
Sarah Cheung – 4
Andrew Ewen – 11
Simon Hayter – 6
Tom Ullathorne – 23

Sarah Cheung eliminated

Stage 3
Danny Aston – 49
Michael Blackshaw – 7
Andrew Ewen – 12
Simon Hayter – 6
Tom Ullathorne – 25

Michael Blackshaw, Andrew Ewen, Simon Hayter eliminated

Stage 4
Danny Aston – 59
Tom Ullathorne – 32

Danny Aston (Craigentinny/Duddingston) – Elected

MID SCOTLAND & FIFE (All-Female List)
Kirsty Jarvis – 54
Melanie Kinney – 58

Melanie Kinney (Strathtay & Dunkeld) – Elected

MID SCOTLAND & FIFE (Open List)

Stage 1
Derek Glen – 26
Kirsty Jarvis – 13
Ian Massie – 38
Anis Miah – 6
Bailey-Lee Robb – 7
Grant Thoms – 29

Kirsty Jarvis, Anis Miah and Bailey-Lee Robb eliminated

Stage 2
Derek Glen – 39
Ian Massie – 40
Grant Thoms – 36

Grant Thoms eliminated

Stage 3
Derek Glen – 54
Ian Massie – 47

Derek Glen (West Fife & Coastal Villages) – Elected

NORTH EAST SCOTLAND (All-Female List)

Stage 1
Alexandra MacRae – 30
Siobhan Tolland – 50
Maureen Watt – 76

Alexandra MacRae eliminated

Stage 2
Siobhan Tolland – 63
Maureen Watt – 87

Maureen Watt (Aberdeen South & North Kincardine) – Elected

NORTH EAST SCOTLAND (Open List)

Stage 1
Alexandra MacRae – 27
Josh Mennie – 50
Lee Mills – 33
Siobhan Tolland – 44

Alexandra MacRae eliminated

Stage 2
Josh Mennie – 55
Lee Mills – 42
Siobhan Tolland – 51

Lee Mills eliminated

Stage 2
Josh Mennie – 58
Siobhan Tolland – 79

Siobhan Tolland (Dundee City West) – Elected

SOUTH SCOTLAND (All-Female List)
Carol Evans (Annandale & Eskdale) – Elected unopposed

SOUTH SCOTLAND (Open List)
Marshall Douglas – 35
David Stothard – 29

Marshall Douglas (Tweeddale) – Elected

WEST SCOTLAND (All-Female List)
Summer Chen (Kirkintilloch) – Elected unopposed

WEST SCOTLAND (Open List)
Jonathan McColl – 26
Graeme McCormick – 24

Jonathan McColl (Vale of Leven) – Elected

POLICY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
CENTRAL SCOTLAND (All-Female List)
Position Vacant

CENTRAL SCOTLAND (Open List)
Ali Salamati (East Kilbride) – Elected unopposed

GLASGOW (All-Female List)

Stage 1
Shazia Babar – 18
Laura Doherty – 37
Mhairi Love – 24

Shazia Babar eliminated

Stage 2
Laura Doherty – 46
Mhairi Love – 39

Laura Doherty (Glasgow Shettleston) – Elected

GLASGOW (Open List)

Stage 1
Amjid Bashir – 10
Graham Campbell – 19
Mhairi Love – 35
Norman MacLeod – 13

Amjid Bashir eliminated

Stage 2
Graham Campbell – 25
Mhairi Love – 37
Norman MacLeod – 14

Norman MacLeod elimninated

Stage 3
Graham Campbell – 27
Mhairi Love – 42

Mhairi Love (Glasgow Provan) – Elected

HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS (All-Female List)
Position Vacant

HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS (Open List)

Stage 1
Peter Cairns – 30
Munro Ross – 22
Joe Smith – 26

Munro Ross eliminated

Stage 2
Peter Cairns – 42
Joe Smith – 33

Peter Cairns (Dingwall & District) – Elected

LOTHIAN (All-Female List)

Shelly Ann Brown – 60
Sarah Cheung – 11
Susi McDonald – 20

Shelly Ann Brown (Leith) – Elected

LOTHIAN (Open List)

Stage 1
Sarah Cheung – 20
Andrew Ewen – 34
Simon Hayter – 9
Susi McDonald – 22

Simon Hayter eliminated

Stage 2
Sarah Cheung – 21
Andrew Ewen – 36
Susi McDonald – 24

Sarah Cheung eliminated

Stage 3
Andrew Ewen – 42
Susi McDonald – 36

Andrew Ewen (Leith Walk) – Elected

MID SCOTLAND & FIFE (All-Female List)
Position Vacant

MID SCOTLAND & FIFE

Chris Hanlon – 35
Anis Miah – 19
Grant Thoms – 57

Grant Thoms (Bannockburn) – Elected

NORTH EAST SCOTLAND (All-Female List)

Lynne Copland – 66
Lee Fairfull – 54

Lynne Copland (West Garioch) – Elected

NORTH EAST SCOTLAND (Open List)

Stage 1
Josh Mennie – 37
Andy Oliver – 58
Alan Petrie – 36

Alan Petrie eliminated

Stage 2
Josh Mennie – 54
Andy Oliver – 68

Andy Oliver (Stonehaven & The Mearns) – Elected

SOUTH SCOTLAND (All-Female List)
Position Vacant

SOUTH SCOTLAND (Open List)
Bendor Grosvenor – 38
David Stothard – 21

Bendor Grosvenor (Central Borders) – Elected

WEST SCOTLAND (All-Female List)
Position Vacant

WEST SCOTLAND (Open List)
Graeme McCormick – 34
Ewan Summersby – 29

Graeme McCormick (Helensburgh) – Elected

OUTWITH SCOTLAND
Paul Anderson (London) – Elected unopposed

CONFERENCES COMMITTEE
Shazia Babar (Pollokshields East)
Amjid Bashir (Glasgow Cathcart)
Declan Blench (Glasgow Provan
Shelly Ann Brown (Leith)
Graham Campbell (Glasgow Provan)
Lynne Copland (West Garioch)
Laura Doherty (Glasgow Shettleston)
Chris Hanlon (West Fife & Coastal Villages)
Emma Hendrie (Glasgow Shettleston)
Grant Thoms (Bannockburn)

The detail of ballots for the All-Female List is available here

The detail of ballots for the Open List is available here

MEMBER CONDUCT COMMITTEE
Shazia Babar (Pollokshields East)
Ann Ballinger (Cumbernauld)
Declan Blench (Glasgow Provan)
Chris Hanlon (West Fife & Coastal Villages)
Emma Hendrie (Glasgow Shettleston)
Graham Leadbitter (Elgin)
Rob Munn (Leith Walk)
Munro Ross (Inverness City)
Elaine Wylie (Blairgowrie, Rattray & District)

The detail of ballots is available here

CONDUCT APPEALS COMMITTEE
David Birkett (Peterhead) – Elected unopposed
Roderick Campbell (Meadows Morningside) – Elected unopposed
Lachlan McNeill (Glasgow Shettleston) – Elected unopposed
Anis Miah (City of Dunfermline) – Elected unopposed
Lee Mills (Caird & Craigie) – Elected unopposed
Ali Salamati (East Kilbride) – Elected unopposed

MY COMMENTS

I am struck by how few votes are now required to become a NEC member. To give an example have a look at the West of Scotland region where only 26 votes were required for victory. This is a Party that claims 119,000 members, the West of Scotland must account for at least 15,000 of those numbers but only 50 votes in total were cast. When you look at this voting, just over 800 votes in the most contested election there seems very few people involved in these elections. Now I know it is delegates voting but the West of Scotland has has 9 constituencies within it and there should also be a lot of branch delegates as well. Yet 26 votes, under 3 per constituency were sufficient for victory? These numbers do not suggest a dynamic Party rather a lethargic one with fading involvement from the grassroots.

I AM, AS ALWAYS

YOURS FOR SCOTLAND


BEAT THE CENSORS

Unfortunately some pro Indy websites are not pro Indy. They are pro SNP sites and ban any content on their sites which dares to question the SNP or the SNP leader. They seek to censor discussion and free expression. Fortunately many of my readers share the articles on Yours for Scotland frequently and because of this the attempted censorship is proving ineffective. This support is very important and I thank everyone who share and protect freedom of speech and choice.

FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS

Are available on the Home and Blog pages of this site. This will ensure you will receive notification of all new posts by email and be the first to get key information when it is released.

SALVO

The progress of Salvo has been the most encouraging development of 2022. It is doing sterling work educating Scots about the Claim of Right and spelling out what it means that the Scottish people are sovereign, not any Parliament. All donations to this site for the remainder of 2022 will be forwarded to Salvo to support them in developing and expanding this valuable work.

LIBERATION.SCOT

Please register at Liberation.scot and join the mass membership organisation that will be the signatories to our application to the UN, debate and organise a new Scottish Constitution. The membership of Liberation is also where the first members of Scotland’s National Congress will be balloted for selection.

39 thoughts on “THE RESULTS ARE IN.”

  1. Remember of course that all councillors, MP’s, MSP’s can be delegates. There are also delegates from Branches and CA’s.
    Seems like a lot of people avoided conference. Would that be due to the lack of debate on important issues? Considering it is only a year till the supposed referendum, they must have all left ‘enthused’ by those they have elected. No wonder the economic paper was delayed till after conference!

    Liked by 10 people

  2. Well, well, it’s looks as if they have come to a sorry pass. It doesn’t suggest a healthy party does it. Oh well, hell mend them. Has Josh Mennie’s mammy complained yet aboot her wee boy no being elected.

    Liked by 14 people

  3. The SNP may say they have 119,000 members but these election results reflect a hardly functioning party.

    The example of the West of Scotland is an example of a party on its absolute knees. Three votes per constituency. That is absolutely unbelievable. Death is written all over the party and no amount of spin will cover it up.

    A flood of departed members, a rump of disinterested left, will all too soon be followed by a departed and disinterested electorate. And the cull of the fat elected turkeys is set to follow. Of that there is no doubt.

    But a new movement, will, and is arising. And this rump think they can speak for the Yes movement.

    Liked by 16 people

    1. I have no idea what their membership is, but i would wager it is nowhere near the claimed figure. The second implication from these figures is that what members they do have are inactive sub payers with no active involvement in their branches. Which is what you might think exactly what the Sturgeon clique have toiled for so long to achieve.

      As an aside, read Richard Murphy’s demolition of their feeble, incoherent plans around a Scottish currency. Written, he concludes, by people who appear to not really want independence at all. Richard is a professor of economics who runs a blog and twitter feed which have been a source of economic analysis for many years. He has shredded the tories for years, with forensic analysis of their ruinous policies, and had hoped the Scots would be more enlightened, ie he was not unsympathetic to an indy Scotland. With that kind of analysis, as he rightly says, the prospect of a SNP Scotland is very discouraging to many who might otherwise support independence. What a catastrophe this SNP is, at a time when the arguments should be a shoo-in.

      Liked by 14 people

  4. And another thing, what pride can those elected to positions take, in being elected on, as is the case in the West of Scotland, with voting as low as 26 votes.

    Some National Party – eh?

    Liked by 13 people

  5. It seems Graham Campbell is “out” (though still on the conferences committee). Does anyone have any insight on the other personalities elected or not? Are they all NuSNP or were the dying embers of the mainstream party still trying to “change things”?

    Liked by 10 people

  6. The problem isn’t the lack of members and thus delegates in the SNP. The problem is the number of voters in the street that are still voting for them unaware of the hollowing out of the party and its takeover by grifters and entrists. The SNP can go down in flames for all I care; it’s independence that’s my priority, not a particular party.

    Glad Graham Campbell missed out on election, though Declan Blench is a charmer, not!

    The decline of the SNP continues. Apparently, their candidate for the Linn ward by-election in Glasgow’s own FB page doesn’t mention indy at all. It does, however, go on about Pride and drag queens. Makes you hope for a Labour hold unless ISP or Alba can field a candidate!

    Liked by 15 people

    1. Alba are fielding a candidate but unfortunately a lot of folk don’t put their brain in gear before they stick their cross on the ballot paper. People vote over and over for the same party out of habit and laziness of thinking, plus local elections generally have a poor turnout. It’s enough to make you weep in despair. I know the Labour Party have chosen their candidate and are already out on the campaign trail.
      If anyone can spare a couple of hours please get out and help Alba campaign

      Liked by 11 people

  7. I was surprised how few names I had heard of on that list and a few of those I had it was in a negative context. Sad to see a few of the Alba stalwarts still nipping away at Salvo as it is not a good look and is unlikely to swell the membership.

    Liked by 12 people

      1. I do think at least one SALVO apologist needs to be more constantly in our face. There is an impressive and growing amount of relevant documentation on the Salvo site, but it really needs mediated off-site to general Yes supporters. Even at least to point folk to an appropriate document when questions arise here on Iain Lawson’s blog or elsewhere. There are clearly many on board in principle but with legitimate serious reservations still needing addressed. Others are more decisively not on board because their concerns have not been adequately allayed. “Go read!” doesn’t work for everyone. An example of a root-level question is “How can any constituted-out-of-thin-air Convention of Estates legitimately outrank and actually over-rule Holyrood in practice without a full-on revolution against the British State and Media and ultimately indeed the Military?”. I know we are promised some kind of definitive video launch on Nov 5th. I confess to not being reassured by the trailer. I found the whole extended “V for Vendetta” sequence of Westminster exploding bit by bit unsettling, even with the word “METAPHOR” coming up as disclaimer.

        SALVO’s main document hoard is here: https://salvo.scot/resources/

        Liked by 1 person

      3. I would just like to clarify that I would not have posted the above if I had seen what Sara Salyers faced at the Conference on Saturday morning, ie the line-up of contrary speakers after her being Neale Hanvey, Alex Salmond and Kenny MacAskill. I have just watched it. Not sure yet what to make of it. Sara speaks at about 29 mins 30 secs —

        Liked by 1 person

    2. I’m not sure what the fight was about. However, we need as many people using as many different likely avenues to indy as we can. I’m sure most routes are compatible with each other OR don’t impinge on the others. As much as Sturgeon’s reliance on section 30 is bad, it’s also bad to pooh pooh other routes that might work. Suggest ways they could work better yes, but say it’s my ball, I’m not playing – no!

      Liked by 10 people

  8. When checking the commons archive for yesterday there seems to be big chunk of the video record missing so cant recall who said it but an MP on (I think) opposition benches, Graham Stringer maybe, mentioned what I thought he said was the suspiciously yuge size of the Chinese consulate in Manchester.. any possibility that lockdowns were used to move any/all of those who appear to be missing in action to its basement?

    Liked by 1 person

  9. So many ‘Women Only’ lists with no candidates. Where have all the women gone? Where does the figure for 119,000 members come from? I find it hard to believe..

    Liked by 11 people

    1. Women have voted with their feet and left the party. I suspect it’s got a lot to do with realising their views regarding the gender recognition act are “not valid”. Hell mend them is all I can say. Women are 51% of the population and were the hardest to convince of the merits of independence so I can’t help but feel this obsession with genderis a deliberate strategy to scupper independence

      Liked by 11 people

  10. I find it amazing that in 5 years I only recognise a handful of names now ( …and not in a good way).
    I think many members are loyal to “the Party” but drawing further and further back from direct involvement. The silent members appear to be waiting for sanity to return. Sadly their detachment is making the situation much worse. Idiots like Menie and Campbell are getting the Cult votes which are now a fair proportion of the votes being cast. Those like Sameeha Rehman are getting closer thanks to her grovelling worship of Sturgeon. The message is clear to all ambitious career activists…you must win the Sturgeon Cult to build your power base.
    I remember when Independence was more important than personal agendas.

    When you manage to minimise the numbers who can actually vote it is far easier to control the outcome.
    Sturgeon logic

    So glad I left this cesspit. My only regret is staying too long.

    Liked by 15 people

    1. There was a woman you wouldn’t go home to with an opened pay packet! She was absolutely brilliant. How we could be doing with a fully fit Margo now instead of the cult leader we’ve been lumbered with. 😦

      Liked by 12 people

      1. Well the beauty of salvo is we can all be Margo except for the men of course. 😂 When something is in yer heart it can’t help but spill out into your lips when challenging blowhards. Sara I have to say does well, Eva too and a good few others.

        Liked by 2 people

      2. Correction we can not be Margo as she is unique to her but what I meant is that if you really believe in something with such a passion it will come out. Believe me there’s plenty of ladies out there who are daeing this and will do it, it’s just that they are unseen or maybe not in politics because they don’t want to be.

        Liked by 1 person

    2. And Swinney put her 5th on the list vote a position she could NOT possibly win a seat from, tipped off to what he was up to, she LEFT the party, & stood & won as an INDEPENDENT that is how much SWINNEY wanted INDY. He wanted rid of their greatest asset, Just as Sturgeon did with ALEX.. If you want INDY & are better people as well as politicians than Sturgeon & SWINNEY & the cabal they surround themselves with. Then they do NOT want you in the party..

      Liked by 8 people

  12. PMQs today summed up

    Liked by 8 people

  13. Old political «parties» are dying all over Europe. They are counter democratic networks, self serving, seemingly unaccountable and ultimately servants of «establishment» whether national or global.
    Independence presupposes independent thinking, time we had it.

    Liked by 7 people

  14. https://scotlandsnature.blog/2021/04/30/the-beloved-hazel/
    Some people think differently and I will share a wee bit of how I think. I went outside to sit in the garden as I do daily and on my seat was a hazelnut sitting there so I think what wee message has nature left for me so I research and this came up and it had me thinking about the fighting between the two and how neither could win etc.

    Like

    1. People might look and think of me as being weird however the story we are told of Robert and the spider apparently led him to go on and in the Salvo documents is a piece the picture if you like.

      Liked by 1 person

  16. Lol at the coup comment on the video for the 5th. That’s what they have done to us and our Claim of Right and our other documents. I actually liked the trailor, it’s been updated since.

    Like

  17. All take the two guards at the entrance. 😂 Only joking but whoever uploaded this has it labelled Scottish Supremacy. Aye we are so supreme that we allow our resources and our country to be robbed by other people and spend our time arguing amongst ourselves instead of getting it together and bypassing the bullshit.

    Like

  19. Pingback: NOTEBOOK: SNP AND THE TRUTH ABOUT THE STATE THEY ARE IN – THE DEMOCRAT
  20. Pingback: NOTEBOOK: READERS’ COMMENTS ON SNP AND THE STATE THEY ARE IN – THE DEMOCRAT
  21. Pingback: The Party is Over - Craig Murray
  22. Pingback: The Party is Over – The New Dark Age
  23. Pingback: Craig Murray - The Party is Over - Brave New Europe

Comments are closed.

%d bloggers like this: