SCOTTISH politics is in a strange state. Noise, allegations and counter-accusations are getting more bitter by the day, while true believers of…
challenge. Hence, it is not fundamentally about what it is claiming to be. Rather it is a politics of pretence, deception and having run out of road – a perspective that lots of senior folk know and are extremely vexed about.
The SNP’s current troubles and allegations about party finances and governance are the subject of an ongoing Police Scotland investigation but much of the broader picture is known. Yet having spoken to a significant number of senior, long-term and influential SNP members – each of them claimed little knowledge of the allegations.
The SNP as a family and tribe worked for years in the wilderness, but as the party’s years in office mounted, it became one-way traffic; in which the leadership accrued power, avoided difficult questions and weakened accountability.All families sometimes shy away from embarrassing questions; the SNP were once a happy family, now they are an unhappy family.
For years there was no serious opposition that contributed to an over-belief in its own wisdom, political intelligence and touch.
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