Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Tartan Tories, Indeed?
What in internal Scottish terms is the ever-reliably post-Thatcherite SNP has today handed over much of Scotland's postal service to a private company. And its wider strategy of becoming a ginger group for ever-higher public spending in Scotland, even if only to pay private contractors, would in fact be more effective, and make more sense, if devolution did not exist. Making it the only party in Scotland whose proposals, and indeed whose very identity as now defined, would be best served by a reversion to the pre-1999 constitutional arrangements.
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"ever-reliably post-Thatcherite SNP"
ReplyDeleteDid not see you mention they banned the sale of council houses.
Or come to think of it, removed the Strathcathro hospital from private company hands.
ReplyDeleteSelective aren't we?
She Herself ruled out privatising the Post Office. It si the point at which Thatcherism becomes post-Thatcherism. The SNP has now passed that point.
ReplyDeleteAs for council house sales, perhaps, as with Iraq, they are pleasing their palecon base? I am all in favour of giving every household a base of real property from which to resist both overmighty commercial interests and an overmighty State.
But there is a strong right-wing argument against the State's gift of such capital assets so as to privilege the recipients over private tenants who had saved for their deposits.