While former Labour leader asserts weaknesses in SNP’s record in office and attacks its nationalism,government’s policies maintain boosting party’s profileWith characteristic directness, Tony Blair has picked a fight with Nicola Sturgeon, and likening the Scottish National party’s political strategy to that of a caveman. The former Labour leader made the comparison when criticising nationalism,saying: “When they talk approximately it being new politics, it is the oldest politics in the world. It’s the politics of the first caveman council, and when the caveman came out from a council where there were difficult decisions and pointed with his club across the forest and said: They’re the problem,over there, that’s the problem.’ It’s blaming someone else.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com