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Originally Posted by Chris
Umm, no, I’m suggesting that the fantasy economics and sunny braveheart uplands they sold to the scunnered masses of west central scotland and Dundee in 2014 continues to have persistent appeal, especially as those same scunnered masses continue to see their living standards falling, their friends and families on picket lines and their GP insisting on phone appointments only. The SNP’s primary skill has been in the othering of the UK government and then making their supporters believe that everything that’s actually in the Scottish Government’s purview is actually the other’s fault.
But even in SNP Scotland, political mediocrity has a gravity all of its own. The gender reform bill/rapist-in-a-women’s-prison debacle, ferries that have cost more than 10 SpaceX rocket launches without yet having carried a single passenger, teachers on strike, meaningless targets for banning gas boilers and petrol cars, unworkable plans for social care reform and the Greens poised to tank the nation’s ability to sell bottled drinks … sooner or later people start noticing, and it seems her regular press conferences have become quite trying of late.
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If the SNP are the benchmark for political mediocrity in Scotland yet still in Govermment (and will likely continue to be for some time, regardless of successor) that’s a damning indictment of the opposition parties, for whom you seemingly admonish their own uselessness by instead blaming the voters/media.
Almost every single issue you identify applies across the UK (while not ferries, there’s similarly flawed procurement. Bottle return is coming to England too. Although at least Starmer is finally capitalising upon the situation in the polls. Where/when will the unionists in Scotland step up?