So, the Lady is going!

For those of us with a keen ear to the ground, this will not have been a great surprise. I said to someone only yesterday it would be sooner than later in order to give the SNP time to rebuild and focus before the next GE.

Although I welcome this, I do so because of the failures of her Party over the past 4-5 yrs, it was never personal for me unlike members of another Party who’s hate oozed out of every word they wrote on SM. Which incidentally was returned in equal measure by some SNP members.

Unfortunately, those words will only intensify in my opinion because it is only human nature to lay the blame for her demise on someone.

But what is done is done and there is no point in looking back, I think a new battle will commence, one within the SNP itself. We on the outside can only speculate on who the runners and the riders will be in this race because the one thing we do know is the Party is deeply divided on several issues none more so than the GRA.

The question I now ask myself is, will those who were whipped into silence on the GRA now be free to speak?

Would it even matter if they did?

Integrity is not about the ‘afterwords,’ it’s about the present. You don’t put your head above the parapet after the battle is over!

Showing you have integrity means taking a risk, speaking out where there is wrong. Some did, Ash Denham had courage and integrity on this matter.

Of course, some of the runners will be those who feel ‘entitled’ and there are a few. Some with a few blemishes of their own going as far back as the Salmond fiasco.

Let battle commence in the Bear Pit that is Scottish Politics!