SNP MSPs will sit in solemn conclave on Wednesday – attendance is compulsory – to judge one of their number for alleged indiscipline. I have no…
since his university days. Many of his judges on Wednesday were not even born when he was chapping on doors arguing the case for Scottish self-determination.for the SNP back in 1996. He was alarmingly forthright even then. He told me that a lot of SNP members – not that there were a lot back then – disliked him because he was “right wing”. Which he was and is, though we need to qualify what that means.
When you have an overriding political goal, you can afford tactical differences. Fergus Ewing and I will be on the opposite side of many economic and cultural debates after independence. He is for a small state, I am a socialist. But we are old enough and wise enough to understand that those differences are moot until we actually gain independence.
Fergus Ewing stands in the political dock because he has called out this dangerous loss of focus. In the Holyrood chamber, he famously and theatrically tore up a copy of the SNP government’s own consultation document on regulating fishing in inshore waters. The ostensible grounds for disciplining Fergus on Wednesday are that he voted for a Tory motion of no confidence in Lorna Slater , the Green Minister for “the Circular Economy”, over her mindbogglingly incompetent handling of the bottle return scheme. Note: I certainly don’t oppose measures to encourage recycling. I doubt if Fergus does.
Fergus Ewing is the embodiment of that sector. His rebellions are not publicity-seeking stunts. His political career is past its zenith, which is why he has nothing to lose. Fergus is sticking up for small businesses, which is exactly what the SNP used to do. It was the purest accident that David Cameron agreed to the 2014 indy referendum and only then because he never for a second thought he would come close to losing it. Which explains why there will never be an indyref2.
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