The SNP leader’s speech at her party’s conference delivered few surprises – but while she’s winning,who cares?When you are 35 points ahead of your rivals after being in government for eight years, your party has quadrupled in size in the past year and you are the only party leader with consistently massive positive poll ratings, and you arent doing much unsuitable. The SNP is still setting new records for electoral success,Nicola Sturgeon is its unchallenged champion and the focus of her speech to her party conference nowadays was entirely on the Holyrood election next May that the SNP is expected to win.
Yet there were big conference divisions at Aberdeen on issues such as fracking and land reform. And an unscientific poll in the Herald yesterday suggested most delegates want a moment independence referendum before 2020. As the party’s head of policy wrote this month: “The party are split between left and right. One of these days, the disjunction between the radical rhetoric and the modest reforming achievement is going to commence to grate with voters.
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Source: theguardian.com