Not quitting in Scotland May 7, 2024
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Well, there’s not much of a surprise, but after the curious self-damaging approach of the outgoing Humza Yousaf (in fairness, someone who has had numerous issues to contend with, not least personally with family in Gaza and all the understandable anxieties that must generate), small wonder the SNP decided to go for a known quantity.
Swinney has pledged to lead a ‘centre-left government’. No other candidates stepped forward. The woes engulfing the SNP have just seemed to grow and grow in the past twelve to eighteen months. In some ways, these woes have seemed inexplicable. Bizarre decisions taken by so many in the leadership of the SNP.
As noted elsewhere the SNP looks like losing more than half its Westminster contingent. In Scotland itself, the polls suggest that Labour is nearly at the same level of support as the SNP. Given there’s about two years to the next Scottish Parliament elections, the SNP still has time to turn that tide. Perhaps.
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I was in Scotland recently and couldn’t believe the level of disenchantment with the ScotNats. My friends would be natural Labour voters anyway, but would have voted tactically for the SNP. Several said they’d never do that again. And it wasn’t just because of the financial scandals and the downfall of Sturgeon : it was as much to do with their being, well, bad at government.
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That’s really interesting – it’s amazing how high they were polling not that long ago. And now they’re still there or thereabouts, but the shine has really come off them. Maybe Swinney can change that. But I don’t know.
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doubt if Swinny will make a difference to the SNPs downward trend, which was due to lack of action on Independence as much as to trendy gender bender legislation and financial shenanigans. Swinney’s very much yesterday’s man – he’s already been FM and made such a mess of the job he was replaced with Salmond (2004)
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Re the SNP being bad at government. That’s a facet of parliamentary democracy isn’t it? It usually turns out that every government is found out to be bad at government by the time they reach the end of their second, if not their first, term. So people then vote in the other crowd. And it’s tweedle dum tweedle dee and little or nothing fundamentally changes.
And looking at SF’s trajectory of late, it looks as if they’ll be on board with this system too.
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You should be ashamed of yourself using language like that. By all means we can disagree on legislation and the nuances of issues of gender identity but using the term “gender bender” is vilely reactionary, the equivalent of referring to gay people by the f word or black people using the n word. It has no place on a forum of the left.
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+1 entirely unnecessary and offensive term.
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