Wings Over Scotland | Haven’t had a dream in a long time

These are strange days, readers.

It’s getting hard to tell who’s on which side.

To be honest, we’d take George Foulkes’ offer in a heartbeat. It’s not ideal, because there should be no limits on democracy, but the UK government can perfectly lawfully deny another indyref indefinitely anyway (and seem entirely inclined to), so we’d be losing nothing, and according to polling we’d be starting from a winning position.

His tweet was responding to this Daily Record editorial:

…to which the SNP’s army of online dolts have responded with predictable fury despite it being a remarkable concession from the firmly Unionist newspaper. The Record didn’t say the VOTE in the referendum should have to be over 60%, just that sustained polling over that level should be the trigger for the referendum to HAPPEN.

(And since polls have a margin of error and the change option usually falls away on polling day, it would represent our best chance of winning anyway.)

But as Unionists hold out apparent olive branches and (frankly unearned) opportunities for real and measurable progress towards the SNP’s ostensible goal, how is the SNP responding?

With a deafening chorus of “WE CANNAE DAE IT!”

In the last 72 hours, senior SNP figures including the FM have insisted that:

(1) they won’t do a deal with Reform to get a referendum,

(2) that any route that isn’t a referendum won’t work, and

(3) that even if a legislator from the current governing party of the UK comes out and explicitly OFFERS a second referendum, they’re going to put their fingers in their ears, pretend it never happened and just pray that he goes away.

That’s pretty much every possible road towards independence rubbished and closed down. Even uber-loyal idiot comic The National is struggling to grasp it all.

Which is understandable, because it makes no sense. After years of simply stalling on the pursuit of independence, the SNP now appears to be in full headlong retreat, running for the hills as fast as their legs will carry them with the Daily Record and George Foulkes and Reform running after them going “Come back! Don’t you WANT a referendum?”

But the SNP won’t hear a word of it. “Please, please, please don’t let us get what we claim to want”, they wail.

?

Because these days of unending power, money and status without responsibility ARE their good times, and they don’t want anything to change.