DevoSpeak: Not the SNP's language!

Another day another example of the SNP being trapped by its own devolved mindset:

Swinney defiant as doctors call opposition to cuts ‘naive’

Says The Herald in another headline contribution to its Holyrood unionist propaganda campaign. The Herald you see, wants to paint 'cuts' as inevitable. 'Austerity' is not inevitable for a start (in economic terms) but wasn't The Herald the same paper who passed off 'fiscal stimulus' as a form of religion, unquestioned, when Brown was blowing all the money that we're being told the ordinary punter has to pay for in terms of cuts now?

Apart from a purely economic argument there is also a constitutional argument. Scotland is in surplus and so in an independent Scotland cuts would not be required at all.

Yet Swinney leaves the goal wide open to all sorts of unionist conmen by playing their game of 'balancing the block grant'. If the SNP had ran a 'Bankrupt Britain' campaign before the general election they could now say 'I told you so' and argue that independence is the remedy to cuts in public services not 'austerity'.

But no, the SNP don't like the word independence and pointing out the truth about the British economy would be frightfully negative. Orwellian devoSpeak or what?

So, not only do unionist organs like The Herald get to paint the SNP as being naive for resisting cuts but but they also get to contort reality by simultaniously painting the SNP as the cause of the crisis. Maybe the SNP are naive..

It seems that the SNP is increasingly adrift from reality. At the very point when their key objective can be clearly demonstrated to wipe the floor with its unionist opposition, it is thirled to the idea of managing devolution and getting slaughtered in the process. They can't win with DevoSpeak - ultimately it is not the SNP's language. When will they finally realise this? What will it take to get them out of the Holyrood tearoom and rediscover their soul?

There are economic arguments against Austerity - it is clearly going to make things a lot worse; When people lose jobs the tax take shrinks further. There are plenty of examples, just look at Ireland. The SNP were dumb enough to follow the 'stimulus' mantra. They would be correct to challenge the new mantra of 'austerity'. On top of that they can argue that Scotland never needed either.

Instead, out of vanity, they are committing political suicide.