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Old 17-03-2023, 17:00   #4279
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Re: Will Scotland Leave the UK?

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
And it’s howling at the moon compared to HS2, or other similarly farcical UK-led procurement or investment. I don’t see as many tears shed for taxpayers money when it’s London burning through more of it, faster.

That said, it shouldn’t detract from the hilarity that has been the SNP leadership contest of which the membership numbers and accusations of “Trumpian nonsense” is the latest instalment.

One can only suspect the massive self inflicted own goal of “gender reform” hasn’t went down to well with the membership. Scotland isn’t as socially progressive as the SNP Twitter echo chamber would wish it to be. I also think having a go at Forbes for her religion, in a country with a sectarianism problem, is a really interesting approach.

The really negative outcome - in the absence of any meaningful policies from the unionists - would be even greater influence for the Green Party after the next election.
If the SNP has any sense at all - debatable - it will distance itself from those policies that were the price of this totally unnecessary coalition and make clear to the electorate that they were Green, and not SNP, initiatives. There’s some evidence that they were able to deny they lost 30,000 members in a year (as reported in The National last month) because from December 2021 to December 2022 they had actually only (!) lost 20,000. The 30,000 figure obtained by the National was correct, but it took the SNP until February to lose that additional 10,000, and all of that appears to have been the direct fallout of the Gender Self ID bill. One begins to get some idea why Nicola chose to step down; even in the absence of a leadership election they wouldn’t have been able to keep that disaster secret forever.

Yes, Westminster has its grand foibles and incompetencies but there is an entire forum in which we can (and do) discuss them. Bringing them up here just whiffs of whataboutery.

And as for Forbes, well yes, I think one of the things Sturgeon has got spectacularly wrong is that her eye has been so fixated on building grand coalitions that she thought shackling herself to the Green Party and its gender ID proposals would kill two birds with one stone and generally be an extremely Good Idea. Yet the upshot is you have to wonder whether she has any understanding at all of what Scotland actually is.
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