An intelligent nationalist launches a forensic critique of the SNP
I have been reading the "Wee Flea" blog by David Robertson who is the minister of St Peters Free Church in Dundee Scotland.
I disagree with David Robertson on a great many things - for example he supports Scottish Independence which I don't, and he's against equal marriage which I think David Cameron was right to legalise, but I have to admire someone with the guts and initiative to report Police Scotland to themselves for "hate speech" (See post earlier today.)
Robertson has posted a series of four articles called "The End of Independence" in which he forensically points out the contradictions and fallacies at the heart of SNP policy and argues that the recent actions of the SNP have fatally undermined their own case for Scottish Independence.
His first post in the series,
"The end of Scottish independence?"
argues that by supporting another "people's vote" on Brexit Nicola Sturgeon has fatally undermined the case that if the SNP did win any future referendum on Scottish Independence, that vote should be respected.
If supporters of EU membership can argue that people did not really know what they were voting for, and therefore that they should get a second chance to vote on the ‘deal’ – and then, of course the EU would ensure that the terms offered were the worst possible - then why shouldn't Unionists who want to keep the United Kingdom together play the same game?
In part two of the series of posts,
"The Beginning of the nightmare,"
Robertson argues that the SNP is tightly controlled to an alarming degree, and quote,
"the SNP is increasingly turning away from being a democratic political party where differences are not only tolerated but encouraged, to a an authoritarian controlling populist movement"
and in danger of becoming
"a kind of secular religious cult where heresy is not tolerated and disagreement is considered blasphemy."
The series continues with part 3,
"Fantasy Politics,"
And part 4,
"Identity politics."
Obviously I don't agree with everything in all four of these posts but they are interesting and thought provoking and in my opinion there is a great deal of force in his criticisms of the SNP - a party he used to vote for although he now says he is unlikely to do that again.
I disagree with David Robertson on a great many things - for example he supports Scottish Independence which I don't, and he's against equal marriage which I think David Cameron was right to legalise, but I have to admire someone with the guts and initiative to report Police Scotland to themselves for "hate speech" (See post earlier today.)
Robertson has posted a series of four articles called "The End of Independence" in which he forensically points out the contradictions and fallacies at the heart of SNP policy and argues that the recent actions of the SNP have fatally undermined their own case for Scottish Independence.
His first post in the series,
"The end of Scottish independence?"
argues that by supporting another "people's vote" on Brexit Nicola Sturgeon has fatally undermined the case that if the SNP did win any future referendum on Scottish Independence, that vote should be respected.
If supporters of EU membership can argue that people did not really know what they were voting for, and therefore that they should get a second chance to vote on the ‘deal’ – and then, of course the EU would ensure that the terms offered were the worst possible - then why shouldn't Unionists who want to keep the United Kingdom together play the same game?
In part two of the series of posts,
"The Beginning of the nightmare,"
Robertson argues that the SNP is tightly controlled to an alarming degree, and quote,
"the SNP is increasingly turning away from being a democratic political party where differences are not only tolerated but encouraged, to a an authoritarian controlling populist movement"
and in danger of becoming
"a kind of secular religious cult where heresy is not tolerated and disagreement is considered blasphemy."
The series continues with part 3,
"Fantasy Politics,"
And part 4,
"Identity politics."
Obviously I don't agree with everything in all four of these posts but they are interesting and thought provoking and in my opinion there is a great deal of force in his criticisms of the SNP - a party he used to vote for although he now says he is unlikely to do that again.
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