Another day, another financial catastrophe for the SNP. This time it concerns the recent Rutherglen by-election, which saw the nationalists lose the Westminster seat to Labour in a humiliating defeat. But the by-election wasn’t the only embarrassing loss facing the Nats: their party bank balance took a hit too. It transpires that the SNP spent many thousands of pounds more on their campaign than their competitors. Talk about adding insult to injury…
First Minister Humza Yousaf’s party spent £96,000 on their failed by-election campaign, which amounted to a staggering £14,000 more than Scottish Labour. ‘What were they spending their money on?’ laughed one Labour canvasser. ‘They were nowhere to be seen!’
The Daily Record revealed that just under half of the gargantuan sum was spent on advertising — including posters that wasted more ink slamming Westminster than focusing on the party’s own positives. (Are the Nats finally becoming self aware?)
£30,000 was spent on unsolicited materials to voters, £17,000 on an ‘election address’ and £10,000 on a ‘voter survey’. And a little under £10,000 went on ‘agent and other staff costs’. Not that Mr S is surprised: it emerged in September that the SNP had hired leafleters on controversial zero-hours contracts to help them on the campaign trail — some of whom weren’t even independence supporters. One irate worker told reporters: ‘I don’t support the SNP – I’m just getting paid to hand this sh**e out.’
And, oddly, the deluded Nats even spent £573 on a carpet. Is there much need? If you’ve already deleted your WhatsApps, emails and iPad browser history there’s not much left to sweep under it…
They can forget about independence — it seems the SNP needs to focus rather more on its own spending habits before it can even contemplate sorting out Scotland’s.
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