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How radical is Scotland?

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The S&P's Discipline Under Nicholas Sturgeon

Sturgeon was an enormous asset to the party, and I think they'll struggle to replicate that. Hamsey-Yousif has inherited a party that suddenly became very divided and had no idea how to process it. The extent of the S&P's discipline was so solid for so long. It really did start to fall apart under Sturgeon, but it was so solid after she left. They're also fighting Labour and the central belt still, but they're also getting squeezed by the Green Party in the proportional side of Scotland's Holy Riddle electoral system. So if they get squeezed on both sides by the Greens and the Labour and the S&p and the Lib Dems on the

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