A BRUISING defeat in a by-election is not the backdrop to SNP conference that anyone in the party would want.
In years to come there will be time for reflection on why some people pushed so hard for a by-election the party was unlikely to win and why former colleagues and supporters turned quite so viciously on an MP who prior to her Covid wrongdoing had such an impressive track record as a hard-working constituency representative and was the most loyal, enthusiastic and tireless of activists.Conference must mark a change in direction for our party.
Plenty of other important policy issues will be debated over the three days of conference. It is right that independence strategy should come first. Independence is what drives our movement. Independence was not at the heart of the SNP campaign in Rutherglen and Hamilton West so pushing independence can hardly be blamed for the result. Instead, the focus was on the cost of living crisis.
We are both in agreement that to treat the next General Election as a de facto referendum would be unwise. The narrative of this election has already been defined as getting rid of theFurthermore, the party is not going to be able to win 50% or more of the vote even including the votes of other pro-independence parties. The suggestion that this General Election should be a de facto referendum was a misstep by the previous leadership. We need to explicitly rule that out at this conference.
I am very pleased to report that Humza will also support my amendment mandating that a constitutional convention should be set up with MPs, MSPs and civic Scotland to take forward our journey to statehood.
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