The SNP factor: do you like Sturgeon?
One feature of last night’s debate was the number of tweets from people
asking if they could vote for the SNP in England. Well naw, laddie, ye
cannae. But you can vote for progressive regionalist parties which offer
a similar kind of politics to those of the SNP. Here in Yorkshire you’ve
got Yorkshire First standing in 14 constituencies. The North East Party
is running four candidates and the Northern Party, over in Lancashire,
is fielding five. We’re all very new and up against media disinterest
compared with its obsession with UKIP. But that’s how it is and nobody
thought it was going to be easy. New parties take a long time to get
established, as the SNP and Plaid Cymru will testify. But the
circumstances are auspicious, with growing interest in ‘real’ devolution
to the regions of the North and the collapse of traditional party
loyalties. So if you’re in the North of England and like the radical
policies of the SNP and Plaid Cymru, you have the option of voting for
one of the new regionalist parties or indeed the Green party. Sooner or
later a formal alliance between Greens and English regionalists is going
to be needed.
www.yorkshirefirst.org.uk
What's that amongst the spuggies?
Betty
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