The SNP Has Tightened Its Grip On Scottish Politics - So Now What?

 The SNP Has Tightened Its Grip On Scottish Domestic Politics - So Now What ?

The local elections unfortunately worked out in the SNP's favour; increased the number of SNP councillors across Scotland, increased the SNP hold on local councils and council budgets, created control of local authorities so that the will of the SNP at Holyrood will be easier to impose.

Here at BM Scotland we cannot understand what the voters in Dundee were thinking of, they gave the SNP greater control of the city, and Nicola Sturgeon was so thrilled that she made a special 'victory' visit to Dundee for photo-calls and media interviews.

Even worse, Sturgeon pointed out to journalists that over in Northern Ireland the balance of power had swung in favour of Sinn Fein, a situation that the First Minister obviously admires and finds inspiration from in her drive for' Indy Two'.

During her Dundee interview Sturgeon gushed that Scotland would be directly involved in any talks between the UK government, the Irish government and representatives of the Ulster Assembly as part of the 'Irish Council'. She clearly supports the idea of a united Ireland and sees it as a first stage towards breaking up the United Kingdom and of course as a template for Scotland leaving the Union.

Although the voter turnout across Scotland, Wales and England reflected a low level of electorate participation, Nicola Sturgeon and her SNP cohorts see it differently, they believe that the vote actually endorses the SNP and its 15 years in power at Holyrood. Quietly forgetting the previous deal the SNP had to do with the Scottish Greens to maintain control.

If nothing else the local election results in Scotland have increased Nicola Sturgeons ego and have pushed her and her SNP acolytes towards directly challenging the government in Westminster over a second independence referendum.  The legal implications do not seem to bother the SNP leadership, and the First Minister ignores the repeated reminders from Whitehall that the earlier 'Indy' referendum was a 'once in a generation' vote.

These are challenging times and over the coming months there will be increasing political friction over the attitudes of the SNP as it seeks to transform Scotland into a 'One Party state'.

British Movement Scotland and British Movement nationally stands by the Union and opposes any attempts by the SNP to break up the United Kingdom.