“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
He said it was 1984, but George Orwell could have been talking about the SNP between 2015 to 2023.
Or perhaps it was Hans Christian Andersen that got it right when he wrote (and I paraphrase) the SNP have no clothes.
For years now, the SNP leadership has been asking members to ignore what was happening, or not happening, to ignore what they were doing, or not doing, and continue to believe they were working towards independence. Party members must believe the party is working towards independence, even if all the evidence appears to prove the opposite.
The 2015 UK election, with 56 out of 59 seats for the SNP was not the time. The 2016 EU referendum, when Scotland voted remain, but England voted leave, was not the time. The 2017 UK election, when the SNP again gained a majority or seats, was not the time. The 2019 UK election, when the SNP again gained a majority of seats, was not the time. Concentrating on the GRR Bill to the exclusion of any effort to advance independence was because it was not the time.
Ah, but, the lack of any obvious signs of action was countered by the party by telling members that Nicola had a “secret plan”. Sturgeon had a plan that had to be kept so secret that it could never be revealed to anyone, not to her colleagues, not to her close friends, not to the members of the party and certainly not to the Unionists. The “secret plan” was a sure-fire winner, but only if it came as a complete surprise to everyone when it was finally revealed.
Then came the resignation and it appeared that Sturgeon had failed to share with anyone the details of the “secret plan” before she resigned. With her no longer in charge, how would the party be able to implement the “secret plan”? That’s when all the years of conditioning of the party faithful really paid off. The resignation is all part of the “secret plan”, said the faithful. The Unionists will be wrong-footed by this unexpected action, said the faithful. They won’t know how to react, said the faithful. Independence is certain, said the faithful.
Perhaps Sturgeon intends to whisper details of the plan into the ear of the new First Minister, always assuming that the person elected as leader of the SNP does actually get elected as First Minister. Obviously, the best way to be sure that would happen is to elect someone the Greens approve of. Of the three candidates, only one is certain to to carry forward Nicola Sturgeon’s ‘legacy’ because you can be sure he (och, I’ve given the game away now) has no ideas of his own, as, like most of the ministers, he’s been doing what he’s been told since he was appointed. Obviously, he’s the only one that will be acceptable to the Greens.
Not to worry, the Greens have plenty of ideas and you can be sure they’ll blackmail the SNP into adopting them. Of course, you could wonder about a cunning plan to destroy the Scotch whisky industry in the guise of the reduction of alcohol use, about a cunning plan to reduce the choice of bottled and canned drinks available in Scotland, about the destruction of the Scottish oil industry, about the reduction in car use by allowing roads to deteriorate to the point they become unusable and about the destruction of the Yes movement by concentrating on women with willies to the exclusion of independence. Are they prices worth paying for Green support?
But that’s what we’ll get if we elect Yousaf as SNP leader and First Minister, because he’s pledged to continue with all Sturgeon’s policy initiatives to keep the Greens onside. Is this the fresh thinking that nearly everyone says we need? Given his performance as a minister, do you think this would be a good choice as Yousaf’s campaign song?
Finally, here’s a view of where Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish Government are at. This was written before the resignation but clearly shows that ministers in the Scottish Government who have all been repeating Sturgeon’s utterances and telling everyone they were sacrosanct will now have the same difficulty as Sturgeon trying to reconcile their previous statements with today’s understanding.
In the leadership election, for pity’s sake, all you SNP folk, don’t vote for someone who’s pledged to change nothing, who’s going to continue the madness of the last few years. Vote for someone who will really bring fresh thinking to the job and bring the SNP and the Yes movement back on track.
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