Swinney's Not the Snp's Big Problem; Iain Macwhirter Argues That the Nationalists Are Victims of Their Own Devolution Mantra
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YOU can always tell when a political leader is really finished: it's when everyone starts saying nice things about them. At the Scottish Parliamentary Journalists' annual bash last week, John Swinney gave a decent enough after-dinner chat to the assembled hacks. But you'd have thought he was Peter Ustinov from the praises heaped upon him afterwards.
I kept hearing testaments to his character, as if his political obituary had already been written. "The thing about John," said a senior nationalist, "is that he has always put the party before his own ambition." Roughly translated, this means he realises he's toast and is going to go quietly, probably over the summer.See the full content of this document
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Swinney's Not the Snp's Big Problem; Iain Macwhirter Argues That the Nationalists Are Victims of Their Own Devolution Mantra
"He really is a pretty decent guy and he's done a lot for his party," I was told by a non-nationalist. "It would be a great loss to Scottish politics if he were to stand down." This means: "Swinney is so useless we want him to stay in case the SNP find someone better."
It's not a nice business, politics. People attack y...See the full content of this document
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