The SNP Executive has almost tripled Westminster austerity cuts to local government funding, leading to a collapse in services. The “grownup” Sturgeon allows a nasty seam of anti-English xenophobia to simmer unaddressed within her party; is overseeing crises in Scotland’s devolved NHS and social care systems; and teachers and further education and university lecturers have taken extraordinary strike action over the last year. Sturgeon may be a competent bureaucrat, but she leads a single-issue party whose myopic ambitions limit it to sustaining a culture of grievance against anyone who disputes the emotive case for an independent Scotland.
The SNP Ain’t Scotland Part 1
