
227: Iain Macwhirter: The unravelling of the SNP
The Brendan O'Neill Show
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The Rise and Fall of Margaret Thatcher
She always regarded herself as a solid working class, a self-improveer. She was the beneficiary of Alex Salmon's policy to turn Scottish National Party into an alternative labour party in Scotland during Tony Blair's reign. Nicholas Ergin came along after the independence referendum and she sort of carried on with that very left-oriented focus. And I would never occur to be to call her walk at all in the term that it's used now. So what happened? Well, I think she was a left-wing nationalist, clearly, regardless of always a social Democrat, if not a socialist. It is a most bizarre development. Even the way she dresses, she's always dressed very much like a
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