ALEX Salmond was right at the weekend when he said watching the SNP throw away its lead in Scottish politics is like witnessing a car crash in slow…
It is time to change course. How many elections will it take before they realise that continuity won’t cut it?’s dominance in Scotland and I can only imagine the disbelief they must be feeling as it is being handed back to them on a plate with a staggering display of political ineptitude.
Some 10,000 extra police were put on the street that helped bring crime to 40-year lows. A social covenant was established that formed the basis of Scotland’s progressive tax system.
But instead of building on popular policies such as this, the Scottish Government has spent the past few years focused on its priorities – which no longer align with the people’s policies. Gender reforms, attacks on fishing communities and a shambolic bottle return scheme are but a few. But for independence supporters the answer cannot be to return to the tired old Unionist parties of Labour and Tory.
There is general sympathy just now for Humza Yousaf’s family circumstances and rightly and understandably so. But he is First Minister and leader of the independence movement. This SNP conference represents the last chance to avoid a coming disaster at next year’s election. In polling released yesterday, the idea of fighting the election on a Scotland United for Independence platform was shown to be backed by a majority of SNP voters. It is also supported overwhelmingly across the Yes movement.out of government Humza could re-unite his fractured party, bring the Yes movement back together and set a strategy to fight the election on the principle of Scottish independence – not on the recent track record of the Scottish Government..
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