Interesting post on ScotGoesPop - The issue boils down to whither you still believe that the SNP's main aim remains independence, or whither their main aim is now government and independence is their electoral tool to winning British elections in Scotland and remain in government

If there is even a sneaking suspicion of that kind of attitude change, then it doesn't really matter how high SNP r riding in the polls or how large a majority they r heading for - independence will not b prioritised in the way the yes population want to see it prioritised.

That is why, and is the only reason why, there is widespread discussion among savvy yessers about an indy supporting list party. The benefits of an effective single issue list only party would be 1. Remove unionists en mass from easy election on the list 2. Campaign directly on

the arguments for Scottish independence at every election. This is not done at the moment by SNP or Greens and is a major reason the uk electoral cycle factionalises the yes support into party political camps. A list party could use the uk electoral cycle to unify the movement

rather than damage it by breaking us up into party political factions. So - List to vote and argue indy, constituency to vote pro Indy party political governance. 3. Single issue List party could enter into a supply and demand agreement with SNP and it's party political manifesto

for governance on the condition an indyref2 is set and delivered. This negotiation would happen at every Budget. 4. The role of any Indy party is to support and sustain the SNP in their primary role as an indy supporting scots government, in order to ensure an indyref or

alternative democratic route to independence is always available to the Scottish electorate when voted for.
Holyrood was created to make governance of Scotland a routine affair 4 a major party and a smaller party in coalition. This was central to the UK unionist plan to lock SNP,

the single party of independence, out of government no matter how popular it threatened to become.
That structural coalition governance model was supposed to be unionist, labour and libdem (or tory and libdem at a push). The electoral map has changed beyond recognition since

that unionist plan was hatched for Holyrood yet the SNP have still only ever managed one, very, very slim overall majority in Holyrood. That tells me that the underlying unionist structure of Holyrood being a parliament of coalition is still very much in place. So - their own

weighted structure should be turned against them to ensure coalition governments with overwhelming parliamentary numbers in support of full Scottish independence become an absolutely routine affair (election after election if necessary).

This can only be done by a single issue indy party on the list to vote for Indy alone, & SNP on the constituency as our party of govt. It's how Holyrood was designed to work -only its UKnationalist designers envisaged indy locked out, no the Scots electorate locking the union out

This is NOT about going against the SNP. This is about prioritising independence in a parliament that was designed to lock that democratic possibility out and tie up party politics, of every colour, in the day to day managerial necessities of devolved scottish governance within

the 'United Kingdom'. A single issue list party that has independence and only independence as its aim can cut right across all those UK created, Holyrood implemented, structural impediments to independence. And - that is what is scaring everyone, who is or has become comfortable

in that Holyrood managerial structure, half to death!
I don't know about you, but I am definitely for keeping on scaring them until Independence is won and delivered!

Posted by braco on Scot Goes Pop