You know, however difficult I find the euphoria of my
friends who support the SNP, at a time when all I can think of is that as a
country – and we are still part of the UK – we have voted in a majority Tory
government for the next five years, I can’t and don’t criticise them.
I found it hard to take the day after the election, when all
I could see, and what still consumes me, is the impact on the poor, the
vulnerable, immigrants and working people of another five years of rule by a
party that cares little for those groups other that as a source of cheap
labour, and has presided over the mass transfer of wealth from the rest of us
to the very rich.
I really don’t know how it happened that the Tories got in
with a majority, but I am unwilling to set the blame at the door of the SNP and
find it hard to take from many SNP supporters – without much evidence – that it can be laid entirely
at Labour’s door.
