“It’s time to get people of competence back into Scottish Parliament” – Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
The ALBA National Executive met in Coatbridge on Sunday as the Sunday Times/Norstat poll gave the fledgling party its best ratings since its launch three years ago.
The meeting is to chart ALBA strategy for the Holyrood elections in 2026.
The poll shows Salmond leading an ALBA contingent of four MSPs into Holyrood but ALBA have their sights set on gaining 15 per cent of the regional vote, 20 seats and potentially the balance of power in the Scottish Parliament.
Party Chair Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh said:
“ALBA are set to reap the rewards of the groundwork of the last three years.
“We are still a young party but we are aiming high.
“We are approaching the tenth anniversary of the independence referendum and there is hardly a person in the country who does not accept that we had much better prospects as a nation ten years ago.
“There is now general acceptance that with Alex Salmond at the helm, Scotland was well run and getting ready for independence.
“It’s time to get people of competence back into our National Parliament.
“The Labour Party are back into Government but already are alienating their electoral base.
“It seems there is no one in the Scottish Labour Party with the guts or the gumption to tell Rachel Reeves that we will not tolerate fuel-poor pensioners in energy-rich Scotland.
“Scotland is crying out for a real independence party to lift the tattered saltire from the referendum of 2014 and carry it proudly into the next Holyrood Parliament.
“That Party is ALBA.”
