John Swinney must accept high stakes of this election

Sure, it’ll be harder for Scots, in the middle of trades holidays which will leave schools and other polling stations shut and staff elsewhere. Even if we do undertake the biggest-ever postal voting effort in history – and connect with voter photo ID properly for the first time – that date just doesn’t work for us. Evidently though, who cares?An imminent election gives the SNP a very good reason to go on an immediate and unapologetic recruitment and fundraising drive.

Melanie Ward, chief executive of Medical Aid for Palestinians, initially aimed to run for Labour in London but was defeated by the son of Labour chief of staff Sue Gray, so she’s standing in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath because Labour had to remove its first candidate, after revelations of “racist” comments on social media.

YouGov says this “commanding” lead is the highest for Labour and lowest for the SNP since the 2014 indyref. Of course, it’s hard for Swinney to be conciliatory in the Holyrood context but combative in the General Election campaign. His domestic agenda until last night was all about steadying the ship, co-operation and no polarisation.Put bluntly, the new party leader needs to make a powerful statement about WHY Scots should vote SNP when his party can’t become the UK Government. Swinney has to say that Yessers must vote SNP or the cause of independence will be badly damaged.

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