tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637840.post7049138712341713794..comments2023-10-06T03:58:04.867+01:00Comments on Shuggy's Blog: Syrizia and the SNPUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637840.post-19988925830289652732015-08-13T18:43:04.121+01:002015-08-13T18:43:04.121+01:00SNP
Liars http://www.bruceonpolitics.com/2014/12/1...SNP<br />Liars http://www.bruceonpolitics.com/2014/12/11/alex-salmond-lies-scottish-finances/<br />Thugs http://www.bruceonpolitics.com/2014/09/17/scottish-yes-campaign-thuggery-mob-intimidation-and-bullying/<br />Inept http://www.bruceonpolitics.com/2015/08/13/the-jocks-should-vote-conservative/<br />Sleaze http://www.bruceonpolitics.com/2015/08/13/snp-sleaze/Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02083743871772130579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637840.post-65850398222222099942015-07-20T14:21:04.834+01:002015-07-20T14:21:04.834+01:00Realising I should have drawn a distinction a bit ...Realising I should have drawn a distinction a bit more: for all their shortcomings, Syrizia are a leftwing party; the SNP is not. They've been very good at pretending to be but I'm a little confused as to why so many are falling for it because if you look at their record in government, they haven't introduced one progressive policy, with the possible exception of tax bands on house sales. Everything else has been regressive and in some cases really rather authoritarian. Let me put it this way: was there ever a populist nationalist movement that <i>didn't</i> come out with some piety about the poor in their borders? There's always a mix and it's always the socialists and trade unionists that are the first to be sidelined (although note that no union thus far supports the nationalists). The SNP are Fianna Fail in tartan and I'd predict that, in the event of independence, one of the first things you would see would be articles and books from Sheridan types complaining that their vision for a socialist utopia had been betrayed. Shuggyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00298179140317536572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637840.post-57764589305043667302015-07-20T13:25:55.442+01:002015-07-20T13:25:55.442+01:00Late on this but it reads very well to me. I didn&...Late on this but it reads very well to me. I didn't know that pro-independence voters tended to be more Europhobic than the antis. I am very confused just what the SNP is: whether it is a nationalist movement in all the old conventional senses, or a socialism-in-one-country party. Sometimes it seems one, at other times the other. But I don't live there so have no ear-to-the-ground idea.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.com