Please support the progressive agenda
Is EVEL in place? No! Then you have both the moral right and the moral obligation to vote alongside the other progressive parties to defeat Tory laws.
In Scotland, you have laws to protect foxes against hunting. Why do you not think that English laws to this end deserve defending? Either you accept that as things stand Scotland is part of the UK and the SNP is part of a progressive opposition to the Tories, or you make it clear that EVEL already works and you consent to the right-wing agenda.
Whilst you have the voice, and whilst you stand as the standard bearers of the progressive left, you owe it to the rest of the UK to stand with the others to defeat the Tories.
Tories won’t thank you or give you anything for helping to defeat the other parties, they will just take what they want and if they can they will play you. Conversely, Tories will not penalise Scotland, will not become harder to do a deal with because you stand up for the progressive left in the rest of the UK. They will neither take umbrage on the one hand, nor respect your strength on the other. They will deal with what they have, and if you continue to stand up to them they will deal with you as you are.
Stand alongside Labour, alongside the Lib Dems, alongside Plaid, the Greens, the SDLP and say in one voice that you accept the leadership of the progressive left when it falls to you. Make it clear that you will not abandon the left in England, in Wales, and in Northern Ireland. You will not sit back and gloat that you already have built-in defences when the rest of us are under a renewed onslaught.
You get nothing for weakness, and your whole message is that only strength gets things. Don’t be cowards now. Stand up for the rest of us when we look to you for leadership.
Thank You
Winds of Change
18th May 2015