SNP are in desperate need of a leader with fire in their belly

The National

a day ago

We agreed that hopefully they would still win despite their completely stupid, pointless, campaign message.
We have to ask why John Swinney put all his time and effort into arranging the truly ludicrous 'Stop Reform' event when, if he had all this time and energy, he should surely have been arranging a 'We Demand to Save Grangemouth' event to be followed by a citizens' assembly for independence.
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Perhaps, though, it simply tells us everything we need to know about his and his party's priorities these days?
With the SNP completely failing the people in regards to independence despite promising it, is it any wonder everyone is fed up to the back teeth with the whole bloody lot of these parties north and south of the Border, who simply lie through their teeth come election time promising us the world and then deliver Sweet Fanny Adams?
This is the real reason why Reform UK are making such gains, and woe betide any of the political parties of the status quo who for decades have let us all down so badly, and who ignore this at their peril.
People have genuinely had enough of being completely trampled on, lied to and abused by both Tory parties, both red and blue, and the SNP, as we in this enormously resource-rich nation have to sit back and watch it being systematically destroyed. We should be even madder at the way we are being abused!
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We simply have to ask if there is anyone with even a modicum of intellect in the SNP to advise John Swinney.
Perhaps there is no-one to hit the 'avoid making a fool of the party' button and this is why the SNP since 2014 have missed one open goal after another when it comes to demanding independence for the people who voted them in for just this reason.
John Swinney seems a decent enough guy, but he is never in a month of Sundays the leader needed to take this country to its rightful goal of independence.
Unless the people in the SNP wake up and realise indy supporters are every bit as intelligent as they are, the SNP will almost certainly go down in history as the biggest political failures of all time.
Just take a look at the chasm between Yes support and the SNP, who for the last four years or so have been an embarrassment to indy supporters and who seem to now have a built-in self-destruct button.
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For every decent thing they do, the SNP then come out with ideas that ruin any credibility they may have just earned with caring, damage-reducing policies to try protect people from Westminster's idiotic, ill-thought-out rulings.
The SNP need to wake up, or the man who was very much the instigator in bringing us all the financial calamity and life-ruining Brexit – the wee ex-Tory, City spiv with his very own property empire who incredibly pretends he is 'anti-establishment' as he counts his millions, yes, Nigel Farage – may very well be the next prime minister.
So let's hope we somehow miraculously find a leader with fire in their belly, who will not accept any rulings that damage our lives here in Scotland, who will not accept 'no' when it comes to independence and who has the vision and intellect to set the foundations in place for an independent Scotland with its own currency and proper land reforms.
We badly need both of those things right now but have to sit back and watch the SNP elect one dud after another as leader when far more capable people are right under their noses.
Iain K
Dunoon