Eddie Barnes - Sillars and the SNP
We've uploaded Jim Sillars' new pamphlet "Thoughts on getting to the only sensible choice for Scotland: Independence" onto our website this morning. You can read it here.
Sillars' basic point is that the SNP has to look at some of its policies - for example on Nato, Trident and the EU - and ask a simple quesion: is this harming or helping to build support for independence? If it's the former, then he says it needs to be changed. "The SNP, by itself, cannot win a vote for independence. It has to build a coalition of forces if it is to carry a majority, and that requires re-examining policies which, if adhered to in a dogmatic manner, will prevent the forging of a successful coalition," he declares. Well worth a read.
Sillars' basic point is that the SNP has to look at some of its policies - for example on Nato, Trident and the EU - and ask a simple quesion: is this harming or helping to build support for independence? If it's the former, then he says it needs to be changed. "The SNP, by itself, cannot win a vote for independence. It has to build a coalition of forces if it is to carry a majority, and that requires re-examining policies which, if adhered to in a dogmatic manner, will prevent the forging of a successful coalition," he declares. Well worth a read.
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2 Comments:
What a excellent read.Lets hope that the your readers, with interest in this topic,take time out and give it a peruse.Thank you.
Well, one of the few things the SNP has going for me is its desire to get Trident out of Scotland.
And can't see how such a coalition could possibly be forged, as it would need to consist of people who can barely talk to each other at the best of times; also who will pay for the damn things?
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