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**Chris** · 02-09-2020, 15:04

Labour in Scotland has had the ground swept from beneath its feet because the SNP stole its message. As of right now, there is a belief in the favelas of North Lanarkshire and Dundee that only an independent Scotland can deliver the sort of welfarism Labour spent the entire 20th century telling them was their right. They believe this because that’s the message the SNP went big on in the 2014 referendum. For the same reason, the SNP vote in other parts of Scotland has become soft and vulnerable to the Tories.

The SNP has shaken off the “Tartan Tory” jibe of the late 20th century by presenting themselves as the Tartan Socialists of the 21st. I freely admit, if they ever manage to unite left and right around a convincing separatist narrative, they probably would win an Indyref, and do so fairly convincingly. Thus far they have failed to do so, however. Their biggest failure in 2014 was to concentrate far too much on the daily politics of an independent Scotland, with the so-called white paper reading more like a 1970s Labour party manifesto than the vision statement it needed to be.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 36,925	Re: Will Scotland Leave the UK? Labour in Scotland has had the ground swept from beneath its feet because the SNP stole its message. As of right now, there is a belief in the favelas of North Lanarkshire and Dundee that only an independent Scotland can deliver the sort of welfarism Labour spent the entire 20th century telling them was their right. They believe this because that’s the message the SNP went big on in the 2014 referendum. For the same reason, the SNP vote in other parts of Scotland has become soft and vulnerable to the Tories. The SNP has shaken off the “Tartan Tory” jibe of the late 20th century by presenting themselves as the Tartan Socialists of the 21st. I freely admit, if they ever manage to unite left and right around a convincing separatist narrative, they probably would win an Indyref, and do so fairly convincingly. Thus far they have failed to do so, however. Their biggest failure in 2014 was to concentrate far too much on the daily politics of an independent Scotland, with the so-called white paper reading more like a 1970s Labour party manifesto than the vision statement it needed to be.