I WAS a member of AFI, Action for Independence, a small, independence-supporting, political party ...
Alex Salmond said Alba would seek to win votes from SNP supporters who have been"disheartened" by his former party Image: PA-supporting, political party which was designed to work within the Scottish electoral system to maximise the independence vote at each Scottish election., would work with the SNP, but with a very different, more progressive agenda.
I note Salmond’s attempt to justify that in The National but frankly, his claim that he is not splitting the independence vote is just nonsense.Let us be clear, the SNP have made mistakes. Two of the biggest mistakes were to think they could have independence while still using the pound sterling and to foolishly imagine that they could “negotiate” independence with the UK Government. They made both of these mistakes while Alex was leading the party.
Does this surprise me? No. Because it seems to me that Unionist’s current manifestos are rooted in the past – no sense of optimism or progression evident therein. So by contrast it may well be that Sinn Fein, now the largest party in NI, will make further gains in this election and, as a result, unification could rise to the forefront of their agenda.
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