The SNP are the root cause of Scotland’s Brexit dilemma. To avoid Brexit Scotland must avoid the SNP in this General Election because the SNP are powerless to stop Brexit because they are essentially a regional political party with minority influence outside of the Scottish Parliament. To stop Brexit Scotland needs the strength of a UK wide political party which can assume power in Westminster. Scotland needs to join forces with others in the Union to defeat Brexit or at least get a second Brexit referendum. The SNP are not in a position to do this nor will they ever be. Scotland needs to put devolution on hold and deal with the more urgent matter of Brexit first.
Category: SNP (Scottish Nationalist Party) may be doing more harm than good to Scotland
The SNP (Scottish Nationalist Party) may actually be doing more harm than good to Scotland particularly when considering Brexit. The real issue for Scotland at this time is whether it has enough control of it’s destiny in relation to matters of Brexit and in this sense it may be best to put aside matters of Devolution for the time being in order to focus on matters of greater importance. Currently Scotland has only a limited voice in matters relating to Brexit because the SNP is only a regional Party with limited appeal or control and influence of matters outside of Scotland’s borders. The SNP therefore are an isolated voice in the UK in relation to matters of Brexit and unlikely to be heard. Brexit was so unpopular in Scotland but because Scottish voters decided to elect a Government in Scotland with regional appeal and focus it has found itself isolated from influence over the UK wide Brexit debate. Scotland has therefore been unable to prevent Brexit. Scotland’s affinity towards the SNP has significantly assisted the Tories and allowed them to press ahead with Brexit. Scotland may be better served to back a British government that is willing to address matters of Brexit or support a second Brexit referendum.The SNP cannot bring this about alone and it is unlikely that the Labour Party would be willing to work with the SNP. The SNP are so focussed on Scottish Devolution that at this period in time they may actually be doing more harm than good to Scotland.
SNP are more fearful of Labour than the Tories : Labour gains in Scotland would translate into the loss of SNP control
Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP sees a swing towards Labour as their biggest threat in the forthcoming General Election. This would undermine or postpone and prolong their ultimate ambition for devolution. This is why Sturgeon is trying to convince Scottish voters that she is closer to Labour than she and her party actually is in order to nullify any swing towards a national level political Party that can actually help Scotland defeat Brexit. It is obvious that Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP are more fearful of Labour than they are of the Tories: Labour gains in Scotland would undermine the SNP’s control of Scotland and might jeopardise or prolong Scottish Devolution. Conversely Sturgeon and the SNP have nothing to fear from the Tories. Defeat of Brexit is not a real concern for the SNP because Brexit is actually maintaining a stronger case for devolution in Scotland. Sturgeon and the SNP are really not interested in stopping Brexit nor are they in a position strong enough to do so but I believe there is an element of duplicity going on by the SNP by attempting to convince Scottish voters otherwise.
The Scottish are not the innocent victims of Brexit that they make themselves out to be
Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP is misleading Scotland for her cause of devolution
2 things have become very clear in the first week of campaigning in this next General Election. The first is that Nicola Sturgeon and her SNP are extremely scared of a reprise of the Labour vote in Scotland to the point of paranoia and to the point whereby the SNP is misleading Scotland into believing that devolution is the panacea for all Scotland’s problems. This can be witnessed by her attempts to convince Scottish Voters that she can actually do something to stop Brexit for Scotland. The obvious truth of the matter is that the SNP cannot prevent Brexit happening because the SNP are only a regional Party that has only limited part to play in UK policy making. The SNP is misleading Scotland and the Scottish voters into believing that it can stop Brexit by suggesting that they are closer to the Labour Party than they really are or that they can have significant influence over the Brexit debate in the UK. Scottish voters with any real sense or understanding of the issue and those not so blinkered by the devolution debate will have already realised and may be considering where best to place their votes in order to promote Scottish interests in the forthcoming General Election . In an attempt to hide both her and the SNP’s impotence on the Brexit matter Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP are fully overcompensating by again and predictably so turning on the Devolution charm in the run up to the General Election. She is also suggesting that a pact with Labour may be possible when it has been made clear that it would not be available and especially not on her terms. By doing this Sturgeon’s SNP is misleading Scotland and Scottish voters into believing that the SNP are closer to Labour than they actually are. She is doing this because she so afraid of loosing votes to Labour in this General Election. She is fearful that Scottish voters will actually realise that the SNP have only a sidelined influence over matters regarding Brexit in the UK. Scottish voters who have concerns about Brexit may actually realise that to have Scottish influence over Brexit matters they may have to consider voting for a Party that has UK wide influence that can better press the case about overturning the Brexit decision. The Labour Party is the most logical Party as a national party and could influence the Brexit debate if it were to get into government: the SNP are only a regional Party with little UK wide influence over UK policy matters. If Scottish voters were to draw this conclusion it is feasible that there could be a swing of voting away from the SNP towards Labour in Scotland. The only way that Sturgeon and the SNP have of getting the ‘Devolution Donkey’ across the Finishing Line is to blinker the Scottish Voters and to keep dangling the devolution carrot in front of them, offering this up as a panacea for all Scotland’s problems. These little matters seem to have been a source of nagging doubt which seems to be eroding Sturgeon’s confidence and forcing the SNP into misleading Scotland and the Scottish voters over what can realistically be achieved by her SNP Party regarding the Brexit matter. Thus the SNP is misleading Scotland for it’s own ambition of Scottish Devolution.
Recently there seems to have been some concession that the SNP alone cannot prevent Brexit for Scotland and her new strategy to compensate for her impotence in the matter is to suggest that Scottish devolution itself will clear a path for Scotland to re-apply to rejoin the EU after devolution. However this would be a risky strategy and by then the damage will have already been done to both the Scottish Economy and the UK economy as a whole. The message now coming from Sturgeon’s SNP is very clearly that we may not be able to fix it for you now but we will later when we have reached our ultimate goal of Scottish independence. Ultimately and currently though Sturgeon and the SNP are misleading Scotland for the cause of devolution.
The SNP (Scottish National Party) are powerless to stop Brexit
The SNP (Scottish national Party) are powerless to stop Brexit and they will never be in a position to do so. In fact they are partially accountable for the success of the Tories in the General Election of 2017 and they continue to prop the Tories up in power in the UK. The SNP will never be in a position to govern the UK because they are primarily a regional Party. In fact the SNP is actually assisting the Tories by splitting the vote. This suits the Tories more than it suits Labour. As a result they have helped elect a political party that is actually detrimental to Scotland at the moment because they are assisting the Tories and helping them to hold on to power in the UK. As a result Scotland faces the unpopular scenario of leaving the EU with the rest of the UK. A vote for the SNP has resulted in a vote to keep the Tories in power.
Scottish devolution should be put on hold to deal with the more urgent matter of Brexit.
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