“Clearly, a mood of desperation has gripped party managers north and south. A project to save the Scottish Tories from another distant second place in the 2021 Scottish election has swung into action.”
unionism
“Sunak is arming the British state with a new language and ethos of economics and civic responsibility – fusing the state, the citizenry, and the ‘private’ economy.”
David Jamieson: Why Sunak’s ‘Economic Unionism’ means the independence movement must rearm
In politics, the case rarely changes, only the basis for its justification. The economics of the union, for example, is made and re-made based on whatever policy the UK state happens to be pursuing at any given time. The ‘age of austerity’? Then focus on an independent Scotland’s prospective budget deficit, and suggest that a […]
The changing moods of unionist economics
Alert Source Direct readers will have noticed that we have barely mentioned the words ‘the Labour Party’ for months. That’s because they are not in power in Edinburgh or London, and have had little to say about those which are at the helm that was worth paying attention to. Keir Starmer arrived as UK party leader and […]
Better Together; the Pandemic edition
“From the virus itself, to the economic fallout, party infighting and the national question in Scotland, the party will struggle mightily to present a unified and popular alternative. What prospects are there for Starmerism in the 2020s?”