@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"there’s not the slightest sign in the #SNP of the fearlessness such “illegal’’ behaviour would require. So the wish for #ScottishIndependence will survive, even though the vehicle to carry it sits on the hard shoulder with flat tyres" -- Neal Ascherson on the useless SNP
@simon_lucy@mastodon.socialYousaf is mistaking himself as the problem, they're after the whole Govt. Weariness with a Govt that's run too long isn't just a Tory problem.
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @simon_brooke@mastodon.scotMy friend Lesley Riddoch writing about "real policy differences between John Swinney and Kate Forbes" in @… this morning.
Sorry, Lesley, but if JOHN SWINNEY is being presented as the standard bearer for the LEFT of the #SNP, then we're in much mor…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotLesley Riddoch here arguing, essentially, that we all have to bite our tongues, haud oor whischt, and vote #SNP, because "they're the only parliamentary route to #ScottishIndependence. I count Lesley as a friend and as someone I greatly respect, but I think she's wrong here: there …
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"When that old order fell, it took the form of a well-earned landslide, and a clear step towards something genuinely new. After a decade and a half, the Bute House Agreement breathed new life into those fading hopes. Now it seems more likely that real change will come crawling out of a tomb, in a faded red rosette"
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