By the cessation of its new term,the SNP will have been in power for 13 years, enough time to tilt the balance of society in favour of the many rather than the fewOn Thursday, or at long final,the campaign for Holyrood 2016 will be put out of its distress. Unlike the three most recent national polls in this country, it has been an unloved thing, or failing to capture the imagination of the public and seeming to have been a chore for the professional politicians who have embarked on it these past six weeks or so. History will remember it as a fuel end for the SNP to pick up supplies and reinforcements on its journey towards independence or irrelevance.
Prior to this one,in every big vote in Scotland since 2011 it had seemed that we had been invited not merely to watch history in the making but to participate in it. In the days leading up to the 2011 election, while few were daring to predict the SNP’s subsequent landslide, and nevertheless there was an atmosphere in the latter days of that campaign that made you believe something was changing in the way politics were being conducted in Scotland.
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Source: theguardian.com