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It's more than possible to hold multiple ideas in our heads.
- Nicola Sturgeon is a competent FM, especially in a crisis, and a great public speaker
- SNP strategy of winning over certain key groups to indy is working
- Lukewarm approach to social democratic reform is a weakness
- Nicola Sturgeon is a competent FM, especially in a crisis, and a great public speaker
- SNP strategy of winning over certain key groups to indy is working
- Lukewarm approach to social democratic reform is a weakness
- Growth Commission is a millstone, this will be proven in an actual campaign when we're meant to defend it
- Building of links with national bourgeois risks a disconnect from core vote and general bad policymaking (where's our govt stake in the windfarms?!)
- Building of links with national bourgeois risks a disconnect from core vote and general bad policymaking (where's our govt stake in the windfarms?!)
- But you do need to win middle class progressive votes too
- Outside investment is vital, even though it's a double edged sword as profits flow out of the country
- Outside investment is vital, even though it's a double edged sword as profits flow out of the country
imho Sturgeon's SNP would be in trouble from its lack of economic vision, if it weren't for Brexit, covid, and the general sense that the British state is falling to bits. But in that environment coming across as a competent and compassionate manager is rightly very popular.
evidence: 2017 westminster and council elections showed a core vote struggling to find motivation, and in some cases moving back to Corbyn's labour. Shouldn't be a surprise, people are furious. Worst decade for wages since the Napoleonic war!
