IN periods of high political drama, there is a tendency to zoom into the minutiae. Who is voting in what direction; what personalities are jostling…
Outgoing First Minister Humza Yousaf speaks to the media during a visit to a housing development on April 26
The purpose of political analysis should instead be to zoom out – to dissect the underlying causes and address the overarching themes which define the era, and to situate events within that context. Pitching himself as a “continuity candidate” in the SNP leadership election under these conditions was always a mistake. But even after taking office, a deep reticence to forge a distinctive leadership that could break with the failures of the Sturgeon period cemented the difficulties.
In my last column, we explored the dilemmas facing the independence cause and this generated an interesting discussion. The state of the SNP this week underlines that analysis. The party will most likely lurch from one crisis to the next under the weight of its own internal factionalism, which is now uncontainable due to the lack of coherence and near-term possibilities around the national question.
Without rebuilding Scottish civic life, citizens’ organisations, unions and other popular mechanisms which can shape the political environment and penetrate the Holyrood bubble, governance will have a tendency towards careerist in-fighting, the prioritisation of insider interests and the orthodoxies of the neoliberal age which have hollowed out public agency in the first place.Then, society-engagement in public life elevated and sharpened all politics.
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