It is widely thought that over and above disillusionment with eight years of Tony Blair’s New Labour government there were two specific policy areas that got the SNP over the line in front of Labour by a single seat in the 2007 Scottish Parliament elections. The first was the pledge to abolish the council tax, the second was a commitment to the NHS. The abolition of the council tax was of course never delivered, not then, not 12 years later. That failure to follow through on big promises has been symptomatic of the SNP in power. They could, to be fair, in 2007 justifiably claim they did not have the parliamentary votes to get abolition through, but noticeably in the following parliament when they did have an outright majority they simply did not act.
The SNP Evil in Scotland Part 29
