WE’RE off! The Battle of Rutherglen has commenced. And without an intervention from Alex Salmond’s Alba Party, which agreed at the weekend not…
in next year’s General Election. Current SNP MPs are responding to this prospect by announcing their resignations. Or, in the case of Angus Brendan MacNeil, preparing to go it alone as an independent.
It is vital that the SNP holds this seat regardless. We concede nothing to Labour. In fact, defeating Starmer’s crew here in Rutherglen will have seismic consequences for London Labour. That is a big ask of the SNP, of course. But it is important that every SNP member considers such a strategy. It would allow Humza Yousaf to show genuine leadership of the whole movement. It would galvanise SNP members and perhaps lead eventually to an organic haling of the divisions that have grown in the national movement. And what is the alternative? To cut our own throats by having the movement field rival candidates in the constitutionally rigged Westminster lottery?
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