Saddleworth2
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I live in Scotland and have done for the last 40+ years. I agree with everything you say about their lack of focus on the day job. However Westminster Tories are still disliked by the majority, although personally I have a lot of time for Ruth. Labour are a shambles. This will turn out as a straight fight between two polarised positions. May's 'vote Tory to save the union despite the fact you may completely disagree with almost all of the rest of the manifesto' or Sturgeons ' vote SNP for Scottish independence'. Talk about a rock and a hard place for the Scottish electorate! My gut tells me this will not end well for a pro union Scot.Being someone that has spent a lot of time in Scotland in the last couple of years, I am not so sure at all that the SNP is so well set.
Apart from their obsession with Indyref2 I have heard a lot of concerns expressed about their delivery on the rest of the key domestic areas they should also be focussing on. I have definitely picked up views that the SNP are so obsessed with independence they are not applying themselves to the day job.
Also given a lot of people voted Leave and there is a majority in Scotland (according to the polls) that are against Indyref2 - they could in fact be in a much more precarious position than their fan base on here would have you think. They cannot really win anymore seats - they are 'maxed out' and if people that are disappointed with their delivery on domestic issues and those that wish to leave the EU place their votes elsewhere - come June, they may not be sounding so 'triumphant' and demanding as they have been in recent years.
It will be interesting to see what the strength of the rhetoric is like should they lose, lets say 7-10 seats. All this air-time she gets to 'bang the drum' might become more challenging as she gets asked uncomfortable questions rather just given free rein to bang on.