James Cook
speaker
1,779 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 19 Sep
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I'm not saying everybody.
Some people desperately want independence immediately.
But that salience number has fallen.
So I think there might be a more subtle approach to it.
And also...
If he does that and tries to rebuild, and I'm not saying he can, and some people will say, you know, the SNP shouldn't have another go and they've, you know, public services, they won't, they don't have a recovery plan that will work.
And those debates will continue in the parliament behind me here at Holyrood.
But...
What happens if what we're seeing in England leads to, at the next general election, Nigel Farage as Prime Minister?
Polls suggest that would energise support for independence in Scotland.
So maybe John Swinney's thinking, cockanny, as they say here, go steady, keep things calm, get to that point and then see where we are.
Yeah, and you sort of forget about the enormous Labour majority.
You're like, oh no, they do have an enormous majority.
Not that you would necessarily know it.
They do not have an enormous majority here.
In fact, and I should have thought about this earlier and said this earlier, but I was just...
double-checking, but it is obviously the case.
This is Labour's worst performance since devolution.
Did I say that at the start?
Oh, I forget now.
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