The SNP is down but not out: Labour must prove that a UK government can deliver benefits to Scotland’s voters
There are many Scottish words for a beating and locals use most of them to explain what is about to happen to the SNP. After more than a decade of domination, the Scottish National party is about to be skelped, battered and gubbed. This is big news — though hardly surprising after 18 months of upheaval, policy failures, criminal investigations and three different leaders. What is more interesting, and less certain, is where this leaves the cause of independence.
It has no mechanism to deliver the referendum it demands. Belief that change is imminent has gone out of the independence balloon as Westminster refuses to budge; the party can no longer deflect attention from its failures running Scotland’s government on health, schools and crime. More combative nationalists also fear that the widely liked but understated Swinney won’t be able to change the political weather. So Labour has an opening, but a win next week is only a start.
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