Was in the pub the other night with a mate and we got onto a bit of a hypothetical over a few pints ( all of our best discussions tend to occur between pints three and six 😂)
One of us is pro-independence, the other isn’t, but we weren’t arguing the usual “should Scotland be independent” stuff. Instead, we started wondering what the Scottish National Party actually looks like after independence, if it ever happens.
We ended up agreeing on one thing, the SNP feels like a pretty broad church. You’ve got people in there who lean centre-right or more economically cautious, others who are centrist, and plenty who are clearly centre-left or even further left on certain issues.
Which made us question whether the party even holds together once its core purpose (independence) is achieved.....
Does it:
Fragment into multiple parties along ideological lines?
Shift into being a “normal” governing party with clearer left/right positioning?
Or does it manage to stay intact somehow?
Not trying to start another independence debate here, just genuinely curious what people think happens to the SNP if it achieves its main goal.