Thread by @ABalharry62

As promised my yarn on Shirley Anne Somerville from 2014. I worked on the Yes Scotland Media desk and was responsible for all broadcast bids, neither the two old Fleet St lads or Salmond's right hand man Kevin J Pringle could be bothered with all the logistics/

that you're required to deal with on top of securing an interview. From early August 2014 I was being asked by the big broadcasters, BBC, Sky, ITV where the post vote 'party' was taking place for Yes, they need to know well in advance so they can ensure they have the right rig/

For the life of me I could not find out Blair Jenkins claimed not to know, hmm, anyway nobody was telling me. Better Together made public their Glasgow hotel venue well in advance of course. We get to late August, still no info. As well as the 60 or so interview bids/

I was fielding I was also having to placate increasingly exasperated broadcasters about the Yes 'party' location, could have done without that but STILL no info. Anyway around 2.5 weeks out from the 18/09/14 vote #SNP lawyer Scott Martin waddled into Hope St and sat opposite me/

I'd never met him but he introduced himself, now I sat diagonally opposite Kevin J Pringle who had great respect for my professioanlism despite me not being an SNP fan AND Scott Martin clearly decided I was well in the tent, his mistake SO took my chance and asked him where/

the after vote Yes 'party' would be so he told me, Dynamic Earth, who'd be speaking etc, result. Now I knew SAS was in charge of the event as she'd kept stalling me So as I'm savvy and well had the measure of the horrors at #SNP HQ decided to email her saying I knew where it was/

BUT very expressly did NOT say who had told me. WELL she fired in a very aggressive email saying she didn't know where I could have heard that, that the plans were not finalised and under NO circumstances should I tell any broadcasters, f off. I replied with a curt/

brief email; ''Scott Martin the #SNP lawyer told me and given he is best buddies with Murrell I'm sure he knows what he's talking about'' Suffice to say I heard nothing back from her, stupid, hapless, out of her depth bint. What was very clear to me, had been for a few weeks/

is that the #SNP knew they were going to lose and they didn't want their defeat to be witnessed by the domestic and world media, hence the Stasi style secrecy about Dynamic Earth. Utterly and risibly pathetic. As you can imagine I was also inundated with request for interviews/

at the various counts across Scotland #SNP HQ would NOT play ball at all, the day before the vote I had a screaming match with Scott Martin who, let's just say, resorted to well worn mysogynistic tropes that and I quote was ''just being hysterical'' f right off my response SO/

I phoned round the many prominent Yessers and got them to various counts, in one instance though, for the main Edinburgh count, the person who said she'd do it was persauded by #SNP HQ, she pulled out now an elected SNP politicain I'll spare her blushes BUT I was well pissed off/

Unbeknown to the horror Murell I had a mole at #SNP HQ for the results, basically this person agreed to send me advance notice of the SNP (dodgy) polling before each result. I was at the main Glasgow count, the velodrome. the person sent me the polling for the first one/

And of course, they'd called it for Yes but the %ages were exact inverse and it was a No. At that point I knew it was over, that we'd lost. Elaine C Smith and her husband were there, she was slated to do all the outlets, I went over to her and said, it's over just go home/

She obviosuly agreed I then went round all the broadcasters at the velodrome and told them that Elaine C wasn't feeling great and would not be available for interview. Then jumped in a taxi to BBC HQ where I'd set up a roomful of Yessers. told them it was over and if they wanted/

to go home and not put themselves through the unfolding inevitable No vote, then fine by me, some did, let's just say the self-centred chancers in the main did not. I got home about 0500 and fired off an F YOU email to all the top dogs at #SNP HQ ONLY Geoff Aberdein/

had the decency to respond, he was pissed off at my accusation that in my view they'd thrown it, that we could and should have won, which I still passionately believe. My anger I suppose hasn't really subsided that so many people were engaged, many people who'd NEVER voted/

who put their faith and belief for a better Scotland in these people and were SO badly let down and as we see the Sturrells are no more passionate about an #indyref2 than George Foulkes. All about power for them, ghastly pair, truly. THE END