AS some readers will know, I was on BBC Scotland’s Debate Night programme last night. You can view it here, assuming you have a TV licence.
The experience was interesting. There were stressed politicians swatting their notes before going on air. The usual fuss of television increased their stress before we went in front of the audience . And then the hour on air rushes by, with too little opportunity to get in all the points you want to make.
That, however, as I explained, provides the SNP with an opportunity. What it has to do now is stop arguing about the process of securing independence and go back to what it once had to do, which is explain why it should secure independence. In my opinion, nothing is more important. Crucial to this argument is however, the need for the SNP to now address three issues.
What it did however highlight is the fact that the SNP have to make clear that Scotland will need to be a proper democracy after independence, based on proportional representation and with a wide range of parties, some of whom might then deny the SNP power. The problems that many people have, of thinking that if they support independence they might face SNP government forever, has to addressed because this need not the case.
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