Longer Term Thinking Required
by Rab Bruce’s Spider Mastodon: @RabBrucesSpider1@Mastodon.Scot BlueSky: @RabBrucesSpider.Bsky.Social A recent poll has suggested that Reform now hold a slight lead over the SNP in Scotland. The lead was marginal, and the sub-sample quite small, so it’s not time to panic yet, but what we are seeing is that Scotland is not immune to the rise of fascism. Promoted by the UK media at every opportunity, Nigel Farage has been attempting to outflank Labour on the left. It’s not a difficult task since Labour are far more right wing than in their past incarnations, but Farage has cleverly attracted media attention with the announcement of policies which most people would be in favour of. Scrapping the 2 child Benefit cap and reintroducing Winter Fuel Payments for pensioners are things that Labour should have done but have prevaricated on, using the excuse of needing to stick to artificial, self-imposed fiscal targets. In practice, they have frequently let slip th...