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Originally Posted by jfman
Although Alba are clearly crackpots, I do think it’s been a bad look for the SNP being more keen to cuddle up to the Greens and trans activists. Not convinced it plays well in greater Glasgow and Lanarkshire. An area I’d previously identified as “soft” - not lifelong independence voters in areas previously held Labour since the extension of the franchise to working men (sight exaggeration).
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The SNP’s problem was that the Yes movement tried to build a broad coalition in 2014, giving each client group a reason to vote for Indy without any overall convincing offer for how it would work without being eye-wateringly expensive and ball-breakingly difficult. They got arts and media luvvies, LGBTQWTAF activists, environmentalists, CND’ers, the hard Left and a whole lot else besides to come into the tent. Nicola’s bright idea was to try to make the SNP a similarly big tent post 2014. That was fatal and always liable to collapse under the weight of its own contradictions eventually. Even if the bulk of the socially progressive cranks are still on-board, the single biggest group, Scunnered of Shettleston, (who believed Yes, and then the SNP, when they were told ‘vote for us and you’ll be better off’) have finally woken up and smelled the Buckfast. Meanwhile the Tartan Tories who were appalled by the SNP’s lurch to the left have by no means all returned to the fold, as seats in and around the SNP’s traditional heartland in the northeast attest.