ScottishJohn
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It is the problem of building political parties around a personality instead of an ideal. The Scottish Socialists were to some extent the Tommy Sheridan find a bandwagon and we'll jump on it party.
I think they are a problem. They take votes from people who don't understand that they have no real policies and no hope of enacting those wrong headed polcies they do produce.
I watched a hilarious interview with Sherridan a couple of years ago - Sally Magnusson asking him about redistribution of wealth, and how he planned to achieve this - he kept telling her that they were going to redistribute the wealth, but every time she asked him how, (taxes etc) he said oh no, we're not talking about taxes we are talking about redistributing the wealth. I don't think he had an idea how he was going to do it. I think he had a good idea he wasn't going to get the chance to do, but talking about it would get him votes which gets him his own persoal grandstand.
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