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Originally Posted by jfman
Ultimately, for unionists corruption has always been (and always will) be at the core of their politics. The fact it’s the SNP makes it novel.
Tory corruption will be the useful shield given that’s at taxpayers expense at far greater quantity. So while Chris enjoys the echo chamber of the state broadcaster and unionist chip papers it’s far from certain the extent it will resonate meaningfully in the medium to long term with the independence supporting electorate who long gave up on the dying media that symbolises the union so well.
That said, to defend Chris, some of this pantomime is objectively funny.
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There is of course an independence-supporting echo chamber that assumes #BBCbias is a given amongst those of a similar constitutional mind and that ‘nobody’ watches it any more. They then get surprisingly uptight when it says something they don’t like, given that it’s supposedly talking to an empty room.
There is some early polling that suggests the SNP’s fortunes are on the wane while support for independence remains in the mid-40s (excluding don’t knows). Being the party most associated with The Cause really isn’t going to save them, though it will be useful, for Labour in particular, if the SNP goes on assuming it will, right up to polling day when it will be too late.
In the long run, a broad yes movement permanently decoupled from one political party is more likely to produce a broader, more credible proposition, anyway. Yessers with an ounce of common sense ought to see that, and to be fair when I dip into their Twitter echo chambers, the thinking ones increasingly do.
You’re right, though, it is very, very funny. Have you seen the clip of the man from Govan trying to film the SNP Motorhome through the bars of the police pound, and getting righteously cross when challenged by two shady coppers who didn’t seem to want to identify themselves?