Do you live in Scotland? How is free prescriptions, free healthcare, bus passes for over 60s and free higher education right wing? There are other parties out there, all over the UK that are not right wing. Ok they maybe need more support but they are out there. I suggest you look for them.
You have some very strange ideas but you are entitled to your own opinion. I suggest you read the whole thread(there's loads of links to relevant info) and look at google if you want to learn about the SNP. While you're at it it might be worth looking up Plaid Cymru, who are also very right wing, not!
I live in Scotland and I have also lived in Wales and England. I am also signed up to the NSSN. An organisation that agree with me in saying that the TUC itself is acting in favour of right wing politics. You tell me where the BIG "non corporate, bank influenced political parties are"? I've looked for them. They simply are not there.
As far as being entitled to my own opinion. I don't need affirmation from you or anybody else about that. It's a shame that the SNP government don't think the same though!
I'm not looking for left wing parties anyway! I don't know why you should Suggest I look for them. I simply wish to state that I have severe reservations about the SNP. Irrespective of the outcome of the independence vote. I don't see that independence will make any difference to the state of things. Other than providing a pre ordained outcome to a media/political circus show.
I live in an SNP area and I know what right wing means! I grew up in thatchers Britain and still have the scars. I also know a plaid Cymru member very well and I know how right wing and even racist he is towards the English.
There are also very many SNP followers whose anti-english sentiments are board wrong and often crossing the line towards racism.
You may think I have strange ideas. ..Well consider how individual perception based on personal experience may actually be more close to the truth than your own experience may be. Try to be open minded. I try to be, u find it the best way to be with people?
What I have experienced is not necessarily what you have experienced. I have no problem accepting that. Have you?
I watched a Plaid Cymru adress on S4C this weekend. It was largely delivered in the welsh language which I am fortunate enough to have a grasp of. Like all political parties that seek to gain control they appear to be the cats pyjamas. Nationalised rail network etc. Well because of my age I have experience free prescriptions higher education etc. I don't see such things as policies that champion non right wing policies. I see these things as the way they should be?
Why would I celebrate something that is not a move forward? It is simply what the populace should accept from any government! Do you still think my ideas are strange?
I have tried to engage with the SNP about issues myself and my family have experienced in Scotland and we have had the door slammed firmly in out face. Let me tell you that the response to the issues I raised was very very right wing.
Having read Orwells "Lion and the unicorn and other essays", I am prepared to accept that it is possible to be nationalistic and still be socialist without flying a nazi flag. However I caution you to consider that any nationalist politics is always exercised in tandem with a high degree if right wing influence. History tells its own stories. With the SNP and it's stir tiring skirl of the pied pipping brave heart esque romance gathering crap there will always be those that miss the truth because it's easier to believe the conditioning of "Scotland the Brave". Almost every Scotland is a stick of tartan rock with national pride written right through it. Should this necessarily negate the need to acknowledge wrongs in our society?
Being right wing isn't about what you say you do or are going to do. It is simply what you are. You get that don't you?
Mussolini made the trains run on time, Hitter created the autobahn. Alex Salmond provided free prescriptions etc. So what? (We had them and expect them in our national conscious ness any way, reinstatement of policy does not reveal overriding ideology)
Salmond is overtly anti English in my opinion. He is also very officious and unapproachable. I sense a didacticness that feels almost dictatorial. He does not care about the disabled and or the marginalised of Scottish society. He has no interest in the racism issue that runs through Scottish society. He is a box ticker. Ie. if it looks alright, it is alright. But the way things appear through the SNP beer goggles are not as they actually are.
If the SNP are not right wing why have they not investigated the privatisation of social housing in the area of Scotland where I live that was initiated under a pseudo liberal local administration? The corruption and criminality we have experienced here has been covered up and concealed. It remains I investigated and involves the misappropriation of millions in public funds.
Why also won't they question why we have to pay both council tax at an extortionate rate as well as a factoring charge that covers services already paid for in our council tax.
Why won't they investigate accusations of racism and nepotism?
"Is it cos I is black?" To quote Ali G?
Why won't they accept that the Scottish police system is riddled with corruption and that the judiciary is also very very questionable. It's fundamental human rights issues such as these that the SNP have failed to eggar in with me that suggests to me that they are a bunch of Twonks. To be fair to Nicola Sturgeon, I feel she has tried to help us but she is somewhat constrained. Her legal background clearly puts her in a position where she knows what's happening on the streets. I think Nicola sturgeon is okay, but I'm afraid like other individuals who are also "Okay" in Holyrood and beyond they are often as individuals powerless to influence the "juggernaught" of overall government corruption that exists in our corporate and banking class led society.
. It's good to still be able to speak freely, don't you think?
