Saddleworth2
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so an independent Labour Party in Scotland would push for EU membership? Interesting.It seems to me that the wish for independence is the only thing that holds the SNP together. There seems to be a broad spectrum of more general political ideologies within it. With Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon they have tended to follow relatively left wing policies, but that seems to be shifting to the right a bit under Humza Yousaf.
If ,independence is ever achieved I would expect the SNP to disintegrate and we would have just the Scottish equivalent of the parties in England.
For all their divisions the SNP still have a broad set of policies which are unique in the UK. I believe this would carry forward in independence and time would determine how the other political parties responded policy wise. Maybe after a while SNP would swallow Scottish Labour or vice versa. I don't think any scenario is a given though.