Ruth Wishart: The SNP must get serious about indy if they want to win in 2026

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : On currency and ­pensions and social security generally.
52% : But the ­second one is ­between me and my conscience, ­informed by the thought that the ­Additional ­Member System does not ­favour "the ­biggest game in town", but its Unionist ­opponents.
49% : I'm well aware you can't feed the weans on self-respect, but it can't be a thinner gruel than what's currently on offer - two different colours of austerity.
47% : We will, however, get a healthy dose of self-respect and social ­justice; more importantly, we will be dragged nowhere against our collective will, and whatever missteps we take will be our own, not imposed from elsewhere.
44% : Most of the things we got badly wrong - like flogging of energy resources to the lowest bidder - were partly down to Westminster calling all the shots.
41% : We wound up living with the paradox of an excess of energy yet sky-high bills.
41% : There are certainly no sunlit uplands on offer with independence - there were none with Brexit either.

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