THERE was no escaping it, although God knows I tried. Everywhere I went, people were talking about it. Well, mainly media people, to be fair.
revival is a thing, even if it is based only on the evidence provided by the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election – flimsy but at least more substantial than the wishful thinking of political pundits powering previous predictions which, lest we forget, came to nothing.
Neither bears much analysis but they do need to be challenged just in case they actually influence voters in the crucially important elections which lie ahead of us, which really would be a disaster. After all, what do we have to gain by doing so? It’s almost impossible to be sure what the message of Scottish Labour is and how much it is shaped by their leader in Scotland Anas Sarwar, who is continually overruled and contradicted by Starmer.
Sarwar has recently planted his flag on territory more normally associated with the SNP. He “feels more Scottish than British”. He wants to reclaim the Saltire, which he wants flown above the UK Government’s Scotland Office, which operates as “the eyes and ears of the UK Government in Scotland” rather than standing up for the country. He seems not to have noticed that the recent Labour Party conference was awash with more Union flags than Buckingham Palace.
Let’s turn now to the argument that the SNP have run out of steam, that they have done nothing to bringcloser and squandered every opportunity to do so. Adversarial politics means parties – particularly parties in government – are quite rightly continually challenged and under fire. This election is too important to indulge in gesture politics. It would take years to recover lost ground. I cannot in all honesty imagine a world in which this would be the best result for the Yes movement.
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