SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
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Can the STUC end the Scottish political stalemate?
VINCE MILLS says the trade unions should step into the breach when it comes to fresh constitutional thinking
BETTER VISION: Roz Foyer from the STUC joins union members outside the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh at the Scotland Demands Better rally, organised by the STUC, outside the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh on December 8 2022
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NEXT year, 2024, will see the tenth anniversary of the referendum on independence for Scotland. Since that year, the SNP has consolidated its position as the dominant party in Scottish politics, but very much as a centrist party of neoliberalism.
And if, as Nicola Sturgeon claims, the Tories believe that creating a constitutional crisis on the back of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA), will undermine support for the SNP and independence, they are going to be disappointed.
Without for a moment reducing the importance of the GRA both for its supporters or its critics, it is not a burning issue either in the lives of most Scots or in shaping their political allegiances.
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