I don't think it's the SNP doing anything different, it's down to Gordy and the mess the country is in.
Well, I have to disagree on a couple of points...
The mess the country is in is down to nearly three decades of Thatcherism. i.e. Selling off the family silver and living off the bricks and mortar that should pin a society together. Like John Major before him, Gordon Brown is just the fall guy faced with all the twisted knitting that was passed to him unravelling uncontrollably in his hands.
I have a REAL problem with the SNP as a party. However. personally, I'm seeing things getting done....
There are policemen on the streets policing. For instance the guy (a neighbour) who tried to break into my house in January is now in jail. Not only that he and his druggie mate at the other end of the street were evicted from their houses... Just wouldn't have happened that way before....
My local council who I'd have previously regards as the biggest bunch of twisted parasites ever are actually BEGINNING to get useful stuff done. Maverick pen pushers are being reigned in. And I'm finding that, as a small business owner, the focus is coming over more to me and those like me rather than simply chasing schmooze sessions with whatever random foreigner is offering the councillors free trips abroad...
Working as I do as a part time lecturer I'm finding my hands there are beginning to be unbound. There are changes afoot at my college which are very positive both for me individually as a lecturer and for my students both present and future. I've ran into Fiona Hyslop a couple of times in the past few months. Once as a parent when my daughter received an award and once as a lecturer. On both occasions I was faced with a real person who wanted to engage with what I had to say.
During the last term Nicola Sturgeon was delighted to become involved with our TV course by granting interviews to our students who we'd sent off to produce a documentary on social issues. I was, frankly astonished when they came back and said she'd agreed to talk to them! In times past the DFM didn't have time even for the international press let alone a bunch of 1st year college students.
Even Alex Salmond himself... I come into contact with the Holyrood crowd every now and again as I still do some news work. And off camera it's NOT 'First Minister' and all the bowing and forelock tugging that went before. It's a friendly handshake from 'Alex' who's head (for a politician) seems remarkably distant from his backside.... And who WILL as a matter of course give the wee wumman who tugs at his sleeve in the street five minutes of his time... Just WOULDN'T have happened before!
I wrote a few days ago about the very apparent difference is attitude and perspective here in Scotland compared to that I've recently experienced down in Wales... The changes are small. But then the job in hand is akin to trying to apply the brakes on a supertanker. The slowing and the change in direction and the new course are almost imperceptible at first...
New Labour in my book was/is nothing more than the 'illegitimate' (I'd prefer to use another word
) spawn of a twisted bitch who set British society back 100 years. Parasites; and it's only a pity the drubbing in the East End wasn't more conclusive!
When did that happen?
