BY EFFIE DEANS If the price that we needed to pay for the SNP to be reduced to a handful of MPs was a Labour government with a large majority, it was a price worth paying. I am more optimistic than some people about Labour, but whatever Labour does and however long it rules, it will be temporary. What the SNP was trying to do … Continue reading Rub SNP Noses in Defeat
BY EFFIE DEANS The greatest fault of British politics since the Second World War is that it manages decline. Apart from a brief decade when Margaret Thatcher changed direction, we merely increase our debts, lower our productivity, and see our living standards become more mediocre. Swinney will manage the decline of the SNP. Swinney is like one of the old Bolsheviks. He was there in … Continue reading No Rival, No Leader
