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SNP's membership surges by 60%
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by mudricky | January 1, 2009 at 11:26 am
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The Scottish national party memberships have rose from 9,450, 5 years ago to 15,097.
Reason believed for this is that the party has become popular, found stability, financial backers and electoral success.
The SNP is now the governing party in Scotland.
Their total of just more than 15,000 is not enough for the Nationalists to replace Labour as the most popular party in Scotland, although the party has experienced steady, year-on-year growth which, if continued, would see the SNP become the biggest party north of the Border in a few years.
Some of the party's main policies are an independent Scotland being a full member state of the European Union, to the country joining the single European currency at the appropriate exchange rate and is against membership of NATO.
Others are unilateral nuclear disarmament and a progressive personal taxation system.
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at 11:30 on January 1st, 2009
Is this along the same lines as the BNP? I'm assuming so, I just wanted to ask.
at 11:36 on January 1st, 2009
No, it's not the same. The SNP are a genuine political party who are currently running the Scottish Government. Though we are part of the UK Scotland runs it's own afairs.
The Scottish Government iare responsible in Scotland for all issues that are not explicitly reserved to the United Kingdom Parliament at Westminster by the Scotland Act; including NHS Scotland, education, justice, rural affairs, and transport. It managed an annual budget of more than £27 billion in the financial year 2005-2006; this is due to rise to over £30 billion in 2007-2008.
The SNP also hold 2 of 7 Scottish seats in the European Parliament, 7 of 59 Scottish seats in the UK Parliament, and 364 of 1,224 Councillors in local government, helping form 12 out of 32 local administrations.
at 11:38 on January 1st, 2009
Oh, good thing I didn't jump to conclusions then! I was going to say how awful it is that a Scottish version of the BNP is going the be the most popular political party in a few years.
at 17:01 on January 1st, 2009
I use the words ' pro-independence', the SNP's stand is Scotland to be an independent state, outside the UK.
They believe Scotland would work as 'the republic of' Scotland'.
at 11:38 on January 1st, 2009
Oh, no, not at all. The SNP are quite left-wing, I believe. Shame about the similarity of name though!
at 12:34 on January 2nd, 2009
Alex Salmond's great.
It's a shame they insist on Local Income Tax though, when Land Value Tax would be a much better alternative (most economists agree!) as the Scottish Greens have been proposing.
...hopefully the SLP will get similar levels of support to the SNP after a few years. We've actually already got some branches in Scotland!