Originally Posted by
57vintage
That isn’t recent. Devolution saved them from almost total oblivion. In 1992, Salmond floated his “Free by ‘93” schtick, and after a baker’s dozen of years under the yoke, I voted non-tactically for The Party. The result was that the sitting Liberal MP’s majority shrank to 274 (-12%) from 1987’s 9500, nearly handing it to John Porter, the (albeit almost pleasant) Tory. In 2019, my hand forced by the EU farce, I had to vote tactically for The Party, and some now-invisible nationalist placeman won it, and threw his hand in with The Continuity Candidate recently.
2017 was much easier. A proper mannies’ mildly social democratic manifesto was on offer, and I walked out of the polling station with my head held high for the first time since 1992. I noted later on that night/next morning that the so-called Caledonian comrades lost their bearings in not voting for anti-free-marketeers’ left-of-centre offer, calling somewhat into account the notion that Mr, Mrs, Ms, Mz and other salutationary designations of Joe/Josephine MacPublic are as collectively-minded as they claim when given the opportunity.
You’ve a generation of entitled but loyal dross to clear from the benches, the committees, the machine, the ‘middle management’ (as my exploited nationalist pal called them), and the cosy new Scottish political establishment before there exists an organisation serious about its stated aim, with the accountable urge to deliver for those who it currently takes for granted by making their lives better. The old guard had some skilful, powerful operators, but they have retired and/or been marginalised and not replaced as admirable radicalism has given way to pragmatic “progressivism”. Stuff it.
