Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose. The new collaborative, touchy-feely politics heralded by John Swinney have endured a smidgen under three weeks. I’ve had supermarket bouquets that have lasted longer.
On hearing the news that Rishi Sunak had called a general election, the first minister’s response was not to marvel at the novelty of allowing Scots to vote for their leaders — the past two first ministers and the past two prime ministers have been cantilevered into position without so much as a single ballot cast. It was to deem the timing “an act of disrespect to Scots” and to accuse Rishi Sunak of “contempt”.
As examples of political grievances go, this mash-up of ethnocentricity and huffy resentment is a classic of a
