There are lines in literature that causes you to raise an eyebrow. Just recently a puff piece was done in the Herald where Kevin McKenna was trying to raise someone up in the eyes of the public. He wrote without sarcasum, “There’s something about Mhairi Hunter.”
Personally, I would have gone with another more brutal punch line, ‘my day at the computer polishing a turd’. Yes, turd polishing in politics is not un-common, usually this is started off by the leadership in a party done for some people deemed to be ‘rising stars’. The only problem in turd polishing is usually the person selected isn’t a ‘star’, never has been and has no track record of achievement. Although there are many clear examples of turd polishing in the SNP, the most obvious is Humza Yousaf. He used to be referred to as ‘the chosen one’ in the SNP, but as we have seen by his record of failure in government and now as SNP leader, he has risen to the top or more aptly ‘the bowl’. Humza Yousaf like Mhairi Hunter was part of the Glasgow SNP Southside cabal which surrounded Nicola Sturgeon.
McKenna rightly points out, Hunter did have a stint as a long-serving local councilor and at the same time was a Cllr in the same area she worked for Nicola Sturgeon. Effectively getting paid twice for doing the same job, she was also Sturgeon’s eyes and ears on the SNP Council until the public wised up and gave her the shaft by voting for a Green Party candidate thus levering her out the door. In the SNP, Hunter acted as Nicola Sturgeon’s election agent, and in terms of doing quite well out of that positioning, she made a cushy living raking in two salaries from the public purse. Before the Glasgow bubble, wider Scotland doesn’t know ‘English’ Mhairi, much in the same way that no one really knew her mother, who was also Sturgeon’s election agent. In fact, most people I talked to in the Govan by-election 0f 2013, had never heard of her mother who was the SNP Councillor for the area. Previously myself as an SNP activist used to campaign in Govan, SNP Cllr Allison Hunter rarely came out to work in the area. I have of course written about how lazy Mhairi Hunter’s mother was and how she treated me, the woman was an arsehole. Like mother, like daughter. If anyone is going to say you’re speaking ill of the dead, I am and freely, because the truth can sometimes be brutal. And I previously wrote of how I was abused by Allison Hunter at an election count. My one real regret was remaining polite when I should have been equally abusive back.
I enjoy comedy, but where is the comedy in trying to take an idiot, and elevate her to a national profile and attempt make Hunter into a politician of significant standing. The experiment failed in middle class educated Humza Yousaf, he is nationally known as Humza Yousless, he is a joke figure. In put his piece together, Kevin McKenna decided it seems to go do a bit of back ground digging, stopping by the City Chambers, he found someone willing to describe Mhairi Hunter in thse terms, as a “stalwart” and “formidable” and “no-nonsense”. To cover all the bases, they also chimed in with hard working, committed and real. The marketing of the SNP superwoman really doesn’t hang well on ‘English’ Mhairi, yes; Mhairi apparently was born and raised in London, England. She is one of the many English people ‘earning a coin’ out of campaigning for the SNP. On twitter, Hunter is seen as an arch-defender of the party’s official line on everything, she is Sturgeon’s dug, and as noted by Kevin, there is a growing band of critics, both inside and out the SNP. You see the tenure of Nicola Sturgeon has come to a sudden grinding halt. In what must seem like sarcasm, McKenna notes that Hunter’s exchanges are done with a touch of class and no little elegance, personally, I thinking polishing the turd that hard will break the surface. The next bit may seem farfetched, well, it did to me when I read did. Someone else who apparently disagrees with Hunter “on just about everything” says that she would be an asset to the SNP at Holyrood.
I have to say….. oh please fuck off (and with utter distain).
At the 2021 Council elections, she lost her Southside Central seat, this was a great comic moment after she was squeezed out by a combination of issues, an SNP backlash among the people of Govanhill and beyond, aided by Green and Alba performing better than expected.
Hunter in her usual ungracious way said;
“Well I didn't expect today to go like this. A combination of Green and Alba votes leaves me no longer a councillor. Pretty ironic really. Still, more time to campaign for independence.”
Beaten by a guy in a dress who calls himself Elaine Gallagher, he identifies as a she and curiously also as someone who is behind in paying their council tax.
At this point, feel no sympathy for Sturgeon’s dug, this is as they say a ‘laughing matter’.
Before, I can continue, a thought popped up in my head, as it did with some other people, Mhairi Hunter, firstly bizarre, and secondly whose seat? Dornan’s in Cathcart? Sturgeon’s in Glasgow Central? Or Humza’s in Pollok? Given Humza Yousaf bailed on Glasgow for Dundee, where would there be a seat for her? It is highly likely that even if there is Humza flight to a new seat in Dundee or even the Dundee list, would Hunter be welcomed in Pollok? Would she get the votes, if you discount Pollok, the obvious two seats in Glasgow are Sturgeon’s and Dornan’s. My main point here is, does this signal the SNP is preparing for Sturgeon leaving either voluntary or involuntary? After all, with £600,000 of indyref money missing, could there a criminal trial, could previously arrested Nicola Sturgeon be charged? Of course, the usual, everyone accused in the current police operation Branchform is innocent in the eyes of the law. If Sturgeon is still in place as an MSP come 2026 for Holyrood, would she stand again? Would she want to keep her ‘I am innocent’ campaign going with a MSP seat to use as her pulpit?
So, what could we expect from Mhairi Hunter, well let’s hear it from the horse’s mouth.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QNhEz3WIXGs
The
SNP inaction in Govanhill allowed the place to be turned into a cesspit, a
modern day third world slum, a ghetto right in the heart of Glasgow. There are
too many stories from Govanhill’s decline to mention, murder, robbery, slum
landlords, flytipping and child prostitution, it’s all there for a quick google
search. The interesting part is the laid back attitude of Nicola Sturgeon who
came to visit the place doing a series of staged show face events, normally not
only to the general public in the area. There for anything that made her look
good but never there to discuss the real issues with the real people. Another
treat which you could see from Hunter, if anyone would vote her in is a crusade
from her as a staunch defender of transgender rights. Bad housing, bad roads,
bad healthcare, bad council services et al, but if any guy in a dress is
unhappy, Mhairi Hunter will be straight to the barricades. Mhair Hunter along
with Nicola Sturgeon represents what is rotten in the body politic in Scotland;
both of these people are like a stinking sewer in high summer, spreading a bad
smell beyond their immediate area. An example is Hunter backing the official
Scottish government position on permitting self-ID. Self id is a pervert
charter, this allows rapists to access women’s prison complete with their ‘lady
dick’. A huge stink caused Nicola Sturgeon to lose public support, although she
probably didn’t care; that and police appearing at her house showed that her
time was up.
What is interesting to me; is why the press seems to think that Mhairi Hunter has a future outside the Sturgeon bubble. Once Sturgeon is gone, the SNP really doesn’t have much use for Hunter. Touted as a “key ally” of Nicola Sturgeon is being to sound something which is tainted now, other key allies of Nicola Sturgeon will be familiar to you too such as Derek Mackay and SNP MP Patrick Grady, both homosexuals and both with an interest in young teenage boys. Sturgeon’s certainly has strange friends.
In talking about her future she said:
“I have no fixed plans for the immediate future. I had care responsibilities for my dad for 10 years and then when my sister became very ill. So, this is the first time I’ve had some time to think. I’d certainly stand again for the Council and I’d certainly consider standing for a Holyrood seat. Right now though, our priority is on the next Westminster election. But I’m certainly thinking about Holyrood.”
The only way Hunter gets to Holyrood is possibly the Glasgow list, in a first past the post seat, this oddity when seen by the public spouting her trans rights crap is a vote loser. She isn’t a heavyweight political figure, she is the exact opposite. She tied herself to Sturgeon’s apron strings, now that attachment seems like a problem. Kevin McKenna makes much of Hunter self publicizing herself on doorsteps as if this translates into concern and action, I refer you to the video above, Mhairi Hunter, the great escape for Govanhill. If you see her at your door, it’s to get your vote and your personal information, and all of that is for the SNP to use to keep people like Hunter on the gravy train. Hunter done quite well out of being Sturgeon’s enforcer, and with no UN, WHO or EU for Sturgeon, the prospect for Hunter at Holyrood to me borders on zero! If Sturgeon is still an MSP, Hunter isn’t going to even get the vacant seat by Dornan; or even John Mason’s old seat across the river.
Some turds aren’t meant to float or be polished; Mhairi Hunter proves this in spades.
