"SNP is a collection of frikkin idiots"

It was claimed, fairly in my view, that the SNP won the online battle for selling its policies via podcasts, emails and general web activity from grassroots members.

Well, I recently joined Facebook (which incidentally is a godsend for getting in touch with lost friends) and from a search of the groups, it is clear that there is one corner of the web that remains unchartered territory for the SNP online juggernaut.

Having typed in SNP into the search field, a couple of the groups that you can join on Facebook include:


If I see Alex Salmond in the street I will endevour to throw an egg at him (29 members).
The rallying cry seems to be an exclamation mark heavy: Long live the Union!!! Down with the SNP!!!!!!!!!!!


Destroy the Scottish National Party (SNP) (with a worryingly hefty 326 members, including an A MacAskill. No relation to Kenny I hope. There is also an Iain Gray but I'm sure it's just a coincidence.)

I'm not entirely sure if the title of this party could be in contravention of some sort of anti-terrorist legislation but there they are boasting such eloquent gems as "Scottish National Party is a collection of frikkin idiots" and "They have absolutely no idea how to run a country - they would sink Scotland faster than the Titanic" (clearly needs updating)

My favourite two when put together are: "Make sure you're not one of them, or you too will join the world's largest collection of retarded politicians outside of America" and "Supporters of the SNP are also welcome. Both sides of the argument are encouraged. Hopefully we can get some sort of intelligent debate going". Brilliant!

Wow, it gets worse. In the same group:

"It is my belief that we should start preparing now for Civil War that will undoubtedly ensue should the treacherous SNP scum try and dissolve The Union...Clearly they are little better than animals...if somebody starts storing bottled water... i'll start buying hand grenades, tanks, rocket launchers and the like on ebay.... "

To be fair, the members seem to be intelligent types, certainly the vast majority are at university though more than 50% appear to be non-Scots. Maybe that highlights the real stink that the SNP's recent victory has caused, people in England/Wales are more cheesed off than Scots perhaps?

And yes, saddo that I am, I did trawl through each of the names out of morbid interest. I did see a guy I used to work with gave me a wry smile and also, interestingly, a fine blogger that I link to on my page but it would be churlish to pass on who it is ;-)


Anyway, this is all just fun and games but I'll stop now as I'm sure I'm only a hair's breadth away from being some sort of stalker so instead I'll maybe just join one of these exclamation-mark-heavy groups and see if I can get some of that intelligent debate on the go that they so desperately crave. It's worth it, even if it does boost their numbers to 327!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!