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Topic: Brilliant Scottish Socialist Party ad
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Connolly
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posted 04 May 2007 09:33 AM
quote: Originally posted by ceti: Yeah, it's looking bad. SNP gobbled up 15 more seats at the expense of others, including the Socialists, Greens, and Solidarity who lost all but one seat. [...] But it is a missed opportunity -- even in MMP, splitting of the left vote is extremely costly.
It looks like the SSP and Solidarity have both been shut out of the Scottish parliament this time. Pretty depressing result, with even the BNP beating the SSP vote. I suspect a lot of past SSP voters were put off by all the infighting and scandal on the far left and voted SNP instead. Even the Greens went down in seats though, so it may be that a lot of people with left-nationalist politics voted tactically around the issue of independance. In addition, it didn't help that the ballots were confusing, with options to vote for the "Scottish Socialist Party," or the "Scottish Socialist LABOUR party" (Arthur Scargill's group, who actually got quite a few votes despite being largely inactive in Scotland). Anyhow, I was active in the SSP and it's precursor the Scottish Socialist Alliance while living over there back in the 90s, and I really hope the Scottish left can get itself together again. The SSP was a real source of inspiration for a lot of people, so it's been really really depressing to watch it unravel over the last year or so.
From: Vancouver | Registered: Nov 2006
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aka Mycroft
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posted 04 May 2007 09:56 AM
quote: Originally posted by Steppenwolf Allende: Excellent! Both are informative and entertaining (that lady sure bakes a lot).The only thing they come up short on is going only as far as taxing the rich. The Socialist Party in neighboring England talks more about democratizing the economy via investing in worker-run businesses, co-ops, community economic development, etc.--all the Historic economic fundamentals of the socialist movement going back hundreds of years.
Yes, my sympathies are actually with the Socialist Party in England and Solidarity in Scotland but I still love the SSP ads - miles ahead of anything the NDP does either programmatically or promotionally.
From: Toronto | Registered: Aug 2004
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