Comments by "" (@charliemoore2551) on "The SNP have learned a painful lesson | Andrew Marr | The New Statesman" video.

  1. As a leftist independence (and sometimes SNP) supporter I reject the notion that it sees itself as uniquely virtuous or even that leftist. It generally falls slightly to the left of the three Westminster parties but that doesn't really say much. Its economics are slightly less neoliberal than Labour's but, again, that's not much to shout about. Primarily, it is a broad church, an ideological mixture similar to where the Labour Party stood about 50 years ago with Marxists and progressive Social Democrats on one side and a few people (like Fergus Ewing) who wouldn't have been out of place in the pre-Thatcher Tory Party on the other. There's no great disaster taking place right now. All that's happening is a wee settling down after an extraordinary period of advancing. It might have stepped back a little (the election will tell us by how much, if at all) but it's way further forward than it was 10 years ago and that's not going to change.
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