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Originally Posted by Chris
Every fiasco is bad on its own terms. Standard nat whataboutery (and its sibling, ‘wheesht fer Indy’) doesn’t add to the analysis, it attempts (badly) to deflect from it. It is a fact that this week, MV Glen Sannox has been benched - again - because of a basic manufacturing fault. That anyone else, anywhere else, has ever made a bad decision in public procurement does not alter that fact, nor does it alter the conclusions we can reasonably draw from it.
There is an HS2 thread on the forum, feel free to vent your spleen on it about how awfully that has been managed. I agree with you, it’s a travesty, and wholesale planning reform is required if any major infrastructure project is ever to be affordable and timely in the UK ever again.
None of which detracts from the absolute catastrophe caused by the SNP’s transparent attempt to buy Clydeside votes for the nationalist cause by favouring a small, failing shipyard with a contract that was beyond its expertise, then compounding the error with a series of complacent, mule-headed bureaucratic decisions that guaranteed the failure of a difficult project in inexperienced hands.
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Conclusions that can be drawn once you apply any deeper meaning to it (independence, SNP competence) absolutely do depend what happens elsewhere because the ballot box is a choice of alternatives.
The same applies when Scottish Labour howl at the moon about NHS performance it’s not unreasonable to look at the rest of the UK and in particular Wales. SNPbad works better if it can be demonstrated that
literally anyone else is good.
To date none of the branch offices can do that and, even against the backdrop you portray above, it looks like the SNP may well win at a canter once again next year and Labour get almost wiped out in the FPTP seats as Scotland reject Austerity 2.0 and warfare over welfare. They’ll get saved in the regional lists by “Daddy voted Labour and his Daddy voted Labour” types.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes at the other side as well since the Conservatives will fight Reform for Rangers fans attracted to flags.