If Rishi Sunak wants to be Prime Minister, then he should declare that central government ought to take over the public role in the Cambo oil field whether Holyrood wanted it or not, thereby building it into the all-of-the-above energy policy that was absolutely fundamental to any levelling up. The SNP has given up on Alex Salmond's old heartland of the North East, where its main rival has always been the Conservatives.
Speaking of Salmond, following Tommy Sheridan's endorsement of the Alba Party this year, Solidarity has now voted to dissolve itself into it. Trotskyist entryism, perhaps, but still a sign of the times. Unlike Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP, Salmond and Alba are economically left-wing enough, anti-war enough, and Eurosceptical enough for Sheridan and Solidarity to think that at least they have potential. Certainly, Alba as a party only wants to re-join EFTA.
Unlike other Formerly Militant organisations on both sides of the Border, and unlike the SWP but like Counterfire and Alba, Solidarity is committed to the reality of biological sex. And Alba supports Cambo, so presumably Solidarity does, too. Nothing would persuade me to cast a Westminster or a Holyrood vote for a party that supported Scottish independence. But if you must, then at least make it this one.
Formerly Militant, priceless.
ReplyDeleteThat is what it says on the website of the Socialist Party of England and Wales. "Formerly Militant."
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