The Scottish National Party (SNP) has been going from bad to worse for a little over a year. It is as if he had first been mugged in the street, then thieves had entered his house, later he had suffered a fire, followed by floods, and the icing on the cake would have been an earthquake. The result is that his house is upside down, only a third of the electorate is willing to vote for him in the next election, and his spoils of 43 MPs in Westminster may be reduced to less than half. There is a debate between asking for leave due to depression or taking pills to combat anxiety.
In order to stem the precipitous fall in popularity since Nicola Sturgeon resigned thirteen months ago, her successor, Humza Yousaf, has unilaterally broken the coalition with the Scottish Greens (also pro-independence) that allowed the SNP to govern with a majority (he two seats short of having it on its own in the Holyrood parliament). His ex-partners have not fared well, as expected. And after denouncing the “cowardice”, the “betrayal of the electorate and the commitment to climate change”, they have added to a motion of censure presented by the conservatives.
Yousaf, much less charismatic than his predecessors Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, can see all colors when he debates next week, and to survive he will need all members of his party to stand by him without exception despite internal fissures, and even while requesting the help of figures like Ash Reagan, who was his rival for the throne of the SNP and has moved on to Alba, another pro-independence formation.
Yousaf has broken the coalition and has decided to rule in a minority to let loose. The alliance with the Greens meant a firm pledge to cut carbon emissions by 75% by 2030 and support more radical gender policies on sex reassignment. With voters increasingly reluctant, he now has a free hand and will be able to resign.
To understand the mental confusion of the SNP and its need to go to the psychoanalyst, it is enough to say that almost half of Scots continue to opt for independence, but one in three is ready to vote in the elections Labour, what a unionist. reason? That, with prices and mortgages due to the clouds and public services turned to dust, at this moment they give priority to fixing the economy, education and health.
After seventeen years of monopolizing power, the SNP has lost the halo of competition they had over their bosses Sturgeon and Salmond. Add to this the lack of a strategy to achieve sovereignty in the face of the refusal of London and the Supreme Court to allow a new referendum, the chronic lack of housing (as in England and Ireland), and the embezzlement scandal which has already meant the presentation of charges against Sturgeon’s husband, while the investigation continues into the former prime minister, dedicated to writing her memoirs. As in Spain or the United States, Scottish politicians seem to spend more time fighting allegations of corruption than governing. bad roll
30% of the electorate believe that the SNP has made their lives better, but the remaining 70% say the same or worse. How not to sleep.
