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| Robin McAlpine |
WHY IS THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT SURGING TO THE RIGHT?
by Robin McAlpine (15 Feb 2022)
Rank and file SNP members are utterly disorientated by the hard-right-turn being taken by the Scottish Government, yet its causes are straightforward.
For many in the SNP and the wider independence movement, things must be very disorientating right now. They overwhelmingly see themselves as left-of-centre social reformers.
So how did the party end up with an economic and public service reform programme that is basically indistinguishable from that of George Osborne? People theorise about this a lot and have drawn some pretty elaborate conclusions.
Secretly the leadership hates this stuff but it’s strategically necessary to get wavering voters, or the goal is to reassure the Scottish establishment so they don’t destabilise a future referendum, or that this is purely a function of the limitations of devolution and they’re all much more radical at heart. None of these carry any weight at all, they are a function of the disorientation.
The reality is much more depressing. To get an idea of what is driving all of this it is worth going back in time a bit.
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