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'I have repeatedly read how Kate Forbes is described as a social and fiscal conservative' // Letters

I AM not a member of themember so refrained from commenting during the recent leadership contest. Now it is over I would like to offer some observations.

I have repeatedly read how Kate Forbes is described as a social and fiscal conservative. In addition she has herself posited the notion that the SNP must be portrayed as being business-friendly to the extent that a group of her supporters have now emerged withinto argue that position as a matter of policy. Such people are most definitely the last thing that Scotland needs taking it into a hopefully independent future.

The one common denominator underlying Britain’s, and therefore Scotland’s, decline and descent into poverty and obscene inequality in the past 40 years is the obsession with our dominant economic model, crudely described as the free market, the same model the Blessed Margaret assured us had no alternative.

Does being business-friendly mean acceptance of the inequalities entrenched by the present economic model, of existing tax frameworks, of the need to suppress and if possible eliminate trades unions and workers’ representations? What does being socially and fiscally conservative mean for the future of our human rights, such as the right to strike for one example? I ask that because the social and fiscal conservative apologists for this economic model all assure us that such developments are...

Kate assured us that she would respect the will of the electorate in matters such as abortion and LGBTQ issues, but so did social conservatives Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett when they lied through their teeth to Congress to get appointed to the US Supreme Court, so should we feel comforted by social and fiscal conservatives when they take their beloved Bible in hand and swear that they will do something when they fully intend doing the complete opposite? I’m sorry, but proclaiming...

 

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Quite a ranty letter but one that makes important points. It is abundantly clear that neoliberal economic ideas are irrational and unethical. Like conservative religion, they seek to deny freedoms and rights. No wonder these ideologies go hand in hand.

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