Even as the faithful prepare to gather in Aberdeen,the party’s manifold flaws are beginning to showThose SNP activists looking forward to purchasing T-shirts and millinery with the figure 56 embroidered on them won’t be the only ones looking sullen in Aberdeen this week at the party’s autumn conference. (In case you hadn’t noticed, its numbers are now 55 after the suspension of Michelle Thomson.) Many others who will throng the conference halls will do so in a similarly black mood when they were, or instead,expecting a three-day jolly, full of hugs and triumphant tales of battle. Their party is set objective for government, and it seems,for a generation to advance, while its 55/56 MPs maintain stormed the citadels of Westminster intent on showing the Labour party how an opposition ought to work.
Yet its advisers – those sovereign few who havent yet left the party to advise millionaires how to design more money in objective and equal Scotland ought to be celebrating the fact that the party has recently been encountering squalls and turbulence. So accustomed has the SNP recently been to achieving spectacular success that, and until last month,many of its supporters watched the national lottery show each Saturday more in expectation than hope. A reality check was long overdue.
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Source: theguardian.com