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TO ANY SCOT WHO VOTED 'NO' ON 18 SEPT 2014
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Re: TO ANY SCOT WHO VOTED 'NO' ON 18 SEPT 2014
May 10, 2015, 09:40
The people of Scotland should have the government they choose. No argument there. Problem is that I heard the pre-election propaganda and I watched all the debates yet I can't find any evidence that the SNP have ever actually done anything that could be described as socially progressive let alone Socialist.

I am old enough to remember Heath and Wilson in government and to me, over time, the SNP have come across as resolutely pragmatic and centrist so as to be ready to jump down whichever path leads to independence the fastest. Bashing the Labour Party over the head with its own core values certainly fits into that pattern.

There is however no evidence that the SNP would ever actively defy a Cameron government as so many Labour councils such as Sheffield, Liverpool and parts of London did in the 80s and with far less ammunition to work with. Will the SNP be hanging banners on the Holyrood parliament building proclaiming the number of deaths caused by austerity or the unemployment figures as Ken Livingstone used to do? I doubt it because those 80s rebels sewed the seeds of their own demise and that would be incompatible with a gradualism strategy.

What I do see is a questionable record on privatisation and offering up the kind of middle class bribes beloved of Blair. And what of the likes of Brian Souter? He is a funny looking Socialist. Where does all that fit in to this progressive leftist shtick?

Anyway I am now expecting to see the rejection of austerity that was expressed in the manifesto and the speeches made flesh for all to see but frankly I am not holding my breath as not having to deliver was presumably always part of the plan.

Given the core long standing philosophical incompatibility between Nationalism and Socialism this is all to be expected. That's why the song is called The Internationale. The clue is in the name. Stalin was a fan but he is not exactly the poster boy progressives are mostly looking for.
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