Cwlcymro wrote:Whatever you may think of the SNP, there's no denying that them winning seats has made Westminster and the media give Scotland a lot more attention and more powers. Wales is quickly becoming the forgotten land. Look at the past couple of weeks, even Gibraltar has been more important to the UK government than Wales, because we're seen as unimportant and unlikely to cause a fuss. Imagine if Scotland get independence, and NI join the Republic. There is a serious risk of Wales becoming barely more than another English region.
I follow Scottish politics quite closely and my sister lives up there, so I go there quite often as well. The SNP may have given Scotland more media attention and more powers, but they've been anything but good for Scotland!
Most of their media air time has done litttle more than turn Scot against Scot and drive a wedge between people north and south of the border, puting off a lot of business investment in the process. Regarding those powers, well, the SNP don't fancy using them very much, that would require them to take responsibility and make difficult decisions. They have far more tools at their disposal than the Welsh Government and all they can do is whine and blame Westminster. They are a greivence party more suited to opposition but find themselves in government and incapable of doing anything more than campaigning for independence.
Scotland is becoming like Quebec in the 1980s/1990s. Stuck in a Neverendum with political uncertainty seeing economic stagnation and a flight of capital, investment and talent. If the SNP were serious about making Scotland a successful independent country, they'd focussing on their enconomy, tagetting investment, getting their massive defeciet down, improving education, running public services efficiently etc., not too mention some credible plans about currency and honesty about EU membership. But all of that is too much like hard work, it's easier to blame the Bogey Man (Tories).
I do fear for Wales if Scotland goes independent and NI joins the Republic, you'll really see English nationalism at its worst then!