Swinney boasted that a majority of Scots voted an SNP government back into Holyrood recognising the excellent record of the Party in the previous parliament. But he avoided any reference to his leadership and Party’s performance in the disastrous 2024 GE

SNP: Held onto 6 seats. Lost 39 seats. Reduced to a bare rump reminiscent of the Party’s standing before Holyrood was established. The SNP is a nonentity at Westminster where the real politics is conducted.

7 thoughts on “Swinney boasted that a majority of Scots voted an SNP government back into Holyrood recognising the excellent record of the Party in the previous parliament. But he avoided any reference to his leadership and Party’s performance in the disastrous 2024 GE”

  1. I think the SNP is a non-entity in Scotland too.

    Say for example, you had the power to appoint an access-all-areas troubleshooter, to do all that is necessary to draw a line under this lamentable decade plus of SNP misadventure, and then unite the clans behind a progressive drive towards Independence, who would you pick to do it?

    I can’t even think of a single contender, even on a temporary caretaker basis.

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    1. Lying ratbags -the SNP has always been the Party of Devolution never Independence. It all went wrong in 1934. and Scots have lived their lives chasing a dream that was never in the minds of Scottish politicians. Only an Idealist with nerves of steel forged from girders will be able to provide the leadership necessary to inspire Scots to seize back control of their Country. I expect someone may emerge from Sarah Sayers group of activists

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  2. He would need to be a Scottish Idealist whose views were formed from Scottish girders. Of little use to Scotland’s aspirations are the Politicians, pragmatists and compromisers who continually adjust their politics to any favourable wind

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    1. Just to throw in a curve ball, with not a shred of evidence to back it up, I am struck by the parallels between Scotland’s government, and of all places, the USA.

      They are not the same, of course, but it seems the best of them, that is politicians with drive and integrity, are either weeded out the system at candidacy level, or if they do gain office, their ideals and aspirations are watered down to the point of extinction. Putin actually said this about Obama.

      In the USA, it seems your political career, and across all persuasions and up to and including the President, is governed by the will of the AIPAC lobby; the open secret everybody knew about.

      I see the same “pattern” in Scotland. It’s not the same, but the pattern is. There is a systemic ability to nullify threats to the “norm”. Ideas get driven up cul-de-sacs, and people get their careers truncated. If your integrity is made of plasticene, then welcome to Congress.

      Is it the Union Establishment stifling Scotland? Well, yes, maybe it is, but if there was a third “compromised” government to throw into the mix beside Scotland and the US, I think the UK government suffers a similar affliction. It felt to me like Brexit was seeded. It feels like anger over immigration is being stoked. It feels like Reform is being seeded.

      Scotland’s Independence, or lack of it, is strategic to the Establishment which exists in the shadows, but the UK Government isn’t the whole story.

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      1. Thought provoking. and you may just be right. I published a blog on the subject some time ago anf your comment alerted me to the possibility that Scotland could be independent within a few months if the right button was pressed by one of the secret controllers.

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      2. I know it’s just a dot in the rear view mirror, but I have always felt shortchanged by Scotland returning 56 out 59 SNP seats in 2015, becoming the third largest party in Westminster, and yet it achieved absolutely nothing.

        Then, and since, I have always held a desire to know what went wrong, who or what redirected all that momentum and potential, and how such a juggernaut for change became so insipid and impotent.

        Was it fear? Was it derailed by the system, or were individuals to blame? Who let all the air out the tyres?

        Why was this great nullification never examined? An embarrassment yes, because we were surely over the threshold to instigate constitutional disruption leading to the demise of the UK, yet our stalwart “champions” turned out to be sheep ready for shearing.

        I know this was the beginning of the Sturgeon debacle, but you hoped there would be at least a spirit of rebellion amongst a handful of live wires somewhere in that 56, yet their subjugation seemed total.

        How was it achieved? Something stinks, and a decade later, the smell hasn’t gone away.

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      3. I am posting information, first published by the BBC in 2015 at the time the SNP was poised to declare independence (but didn’t) having gained 56 seats at Westminster.

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