THE SNP sails confidently and complacently towards the election in May. It fully expects to win and assuredly it will because it has absolutely no serious competition. Under Ruth Davidson the Conservatives were for a time really making inroads into the SNP majority; unfortunately the lure of the ermine proved too strong to keep the soon-to-be Baroness Davidson in Scotland. The Labour Party may some day start to be heard again in the land, after the disaster of the Corbynista Richard Leonard, but the new leader has too high a mountain to climb to make a difference in the short term. As for the Liberal Democrats and the Greens, they are probably nice people but they are seriously non-starters.
Letters, Joanna Cherry: Why I must set the record straight on my view of Scotland s future
MP Joanna Cherry stresses that the ideal method for Scotland to become independent would be after a referendum based on an agreement between the British and Scottish governments as set out previously in the Edinburgh Agreement . Picture: Alamy I HOPE you will permit me a right of reply to Mark Smith’s column which began with the words “We need to talk about Joanna Cherry” ( A nationalist view of history that raises a worrying vision of Scotland’s future , The Herald, January 11). Since entering public life during the independence referendum and then as an MP I have become accustomed to nasty hatchet jobs on my character and views. Sadly, they have been a particular feature of my experience in politics. Usually, they come from a position of ignorance from those who have never spoken with me and wish to distort something I’ve said by taking it wholly out of context. I am afraid
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Scottish Transport Minister Humza Yousaf makes an emergency statement at Holyrood wednesday.Pic Gordon Terris/The Herald.20/11/16. THE re-emergence of authoritarian nationalism is shaping the world we live in today. We have witnessed its steady growth in Scotland where 13 years of SNP government have sounded the death knell for the freedoms we once took for granted. We now live in a society where people, because of Brexit, the coronavirus and the downturn in the economy, feel betrayed and insecure and tend to want someone, preferably an outsider, to blame. That scapegoat, for thousands of SNP supporters, is invariably Boris Johnson, the Westminster Government or even England itself. Meanwhile, the rise of social media has enabled us to share our grievances instantly and globally and this in turn has created an opening for many predatory cybernats to circulate smears and insults and to violat