The SNP leadership repeatedly refuses to allow any motions to go to party conference which either revisit the Growth Commission or propose any other revenue-raising approach (because that would flat-out contradict the Growth Commission). The sight of SNP members simply ignoring their own party policy and pretending it didn’t happen because it so bad is actually quite sad.

The calamity which is the Growth Commission is now never going away under this regime, because even as as that regime tries to sidle away from it and pretend it never really happened (‘refreshing the case’), the simple reality is that at one point they thought this was a feasible way to run a country.

We are (in theory) going into a referendum on independence in the middle of a crisis without a credible explanation of how independence would help us to deal with the crisis, and without a team in place capable of coming up with a narrative about how independence could be a credible response to crisis.

Be honest; Nicola Sturgeon’s vision of independence doesn’t stretch beyond joining the EU and her head going on the stamps. (I think I’m kidding about the stamps.) The SNP has ruled out the nationalisation of the electricity grid or any major energy generation. It pulled out of a commitment to create a basic energy retail company.

There is no economic vision other than ‘look, countries doing better than us!’ and ‘rejoin the EU!’ (if you think the Growth Commission would lead to devastating cuts, go look at the cuts required to meet EU entry requirements in any foreseeable short-term).

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