Is the ALBA Party simply a massage of Salmond’s ego?
The one to be the mentor of the political stalwart to the cause of nationalism and independence Nicola Sturgeon the successor to throne of first minister previously by Alex Salmond himself. How times have changed and a relationship soured flying the flag as the man to lead the Scottish Nationalist Party to a vote for Scottish Independence seen as a once in a generation vote on Scotland leaving Westminster’s rule to be its own sovereign nation. Salmond still wants to do that but not under the same party with a rerun to frontline politics see him leading a party in Holyrood the Scottish parliament in several years.
After leaving Holyrood he became a member of the House of Commons representing the SNP lead by his successor Nicola Sturgeon after losing the referendum on independence with the unionist movement lead by Labour, Liberal Democrat’s and Conservatives supporting the cause that Scotland should remain part of the United Kingdom and remain to be governed by Westminster in a quasi-devolution manner. His seat in Westminster two years later in the Snap general election then Prime Minister Theresa May called Salmond lost his seat to the Conservative Party. No longer an elected politician the erstwhile nationalist politician was hired and crossed to a role working in media on controversial Russian state media television news channel ‘RT’ where his political rival George Galloway staunch unionist on the radical fringe of British politics a socialist seen as a staunch British unionist and a British nationalist, an anti establishment populist figure.
A rival of Salmond, Alex finds himself at odds with Salmond on the matter of how Scotland should be governed but had the same dominant ego and is unable to withdraw himself from frontline politics and debate. As he becomes one of several political figures who find themselves jumping from party to party like Galloway, Farage and Laurence Fox. All posing a form of populism each disillusioned with masses yet are able to become such an influence in politics. Like the others proposing Ill thought idea and trying to be disrupters with hopes to delivering a wrecking ball to the establishment Salmond’s egotistical wrecking ball is hoping to send a shock to Westminster and Sturgeons SNP party. Hoping to deliver a super majority in this summers Holyrood election, really a wrecking ball to democracy and having an multi party parliament under a proportional representation electoral system.
Going for a streak of revenge and to have some control over his erstwhile protégé who now perceives he’s unfit to return to high office. His party becomes the third pro Scottish Independence Party in the recent race to become a party to deliver a supermajority in Holyrood the Scottish Parliament the other party from ALBA and SNP Party is the Scottish Greens an environmentalist nationalist party seen as more progressive than the two. On the lead up to the 2021 election the strategy of launching a party that isn’t that similar to the SNP is rather a bizarre move when it seems most nationalist voters would vote for the current governing party.
After all, it’s hard to imagine those who tired of the same old politics, why should they vote for someone who’s political peak and prime was a few decades ago and his new party seems tired and stale even in fresh stages? the same could be said for Sturgeon a leader who promises different and another chance at referendum on independence when been the first minister and party leader for several years and seemed to have built a party on political spin. Sometimes the question of independence translates as where do you want your bastards to govern and where do you want them to hold the power rather than answering real questions: how do we have a better functioning democracy? how does politics improve the quality of life? how do we see a politics not based elites acting in the interests of greed but how does power get handed to ‘we the people’?
Not Putting recovery first after the coronavirus pandemic and making independence and the argument that Scotland should be independent doesn’t guarantee a better government both Sturgeon and Salmond’s egos of the desire of nationalism does not guarantee that the people of Scotland would be better of as the wants and needs of independence opens another pandoras box with greater consequences than the united kingdom exiting the European union as questions of republicanism or monarchy, currency, boarder with England and trading with the rest of the united kingdom of the world.
Never the less who’s in government majority of SNP, Alba and Green coalition would have to get around delivering what the party promised what it can already do under a quasi-federal system.
