Salmonds Balloon Well And Truely Burst

By the 1960s, the party was starting to become defined ideologically. It had by then established a National Assembly which allowed for discussion of policy and was producing papers on a host of policy issues that could be described as based on social democracy. Also, the emergence of William Wolfe (universally known as Billy) as a leading figure played a huge role in the SNP defining itself as a left-of-centre and social-democratic party. He recognised the need to do this to challenge the dominant political position of the Scottish Labour Party.

He achieved this in a number of ways: establishing the SNP Trade Union Group; promoting centre-left policies; and identifying the SNP with labour campaigns, such as the Upper-Clyde Shipbuilders Work-in and the attempt of the workers at the Scottish Daily Express to run as a cooperative. (The leader of the Upper-Clyde Shipbuilders Work-in, the late Jimmy Reid, would later join the SNP.



Point well and truly destroyed. Told you.

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For the party manifestos for the two 1974 general elections, the SNP finally self-identified itself as a social-democratic party,


Ouch you just don't know when you are beaten.

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Why would I apologise for you being wrong?

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