Look, I have no desire to wilfully piss on anybody’s chips. But what meaningful change have two Green ministers in the Scottish government brought about? I happen to like Patrick Harvie, he seems a decent bloke, but he and Lorna Slater are simply a bit of Green window dressing on the SNP, co-opted to provide an overall government majority. This is a party who sold off Scottish sea beds to Shell and BP, and whose backbencher Fergus Ewing, tore up the SNP’s consultation document on protected marine environments in Parliament.
Free NHS prescriptions, no university tuition fees, the (wrecked) Gender Recognition Act, and Humza Yousaf’s support for Palestine. God knows the Scottish government is preferable to the rabble in Westminster, but it’s a spectacularly low benchmark against which to measure your achievements. By the time the next Holyrood elections come around in 2026, the SNP will have been in power for 19 years. And yet, their
raison d’etre of Scottish Independence is no nearer now than it was 19 years ago, arguably further away.
@Tony L posted this video by Peter Oborne in the Sunak thread. Remember, Oborne is a Tory! (although he seems to be moving left). Despite his instinctual Toryism, Oborne actually realises, through his references to Malcom X and Gramsci, that political power without economic power is merely to apply a democratic veneer to a thoroughly undemocratic structure.
Are we seriously entertaining the notion that this pack of unelected vermin, epitomised by Murdoch, who have infested the political and financial corpus and installed themselves by thoroughly undemocratic, clandestine and illegal means, are going to allow themselves to be removed by anything so piddling as a General Election- wthether by FPTP or PR? Jeremy Corbyn found out the hard way that they are not. Salvador Allende and the population of Chile found out harder still.
And one man is at the heart of it
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