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Published on: 8/1/2008
Last Visited: 8/30/2008
The SSP's nationalist wing (the SRSM and Kevin Williamson), which wants to turn the party into a pressure group on the SNP, represents the most obvious immediate threat to unity.
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Furthermore, ‘clever' voting strategies, suggested either by Kevin Williamson or our Executive, are just as likely to backfire.
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It has angered many party members to see Kevin Williamson use his very privileged position, as a weekly columnist in the Scottish Socialist Voice, to argue against current party policy.He contends that we should not stand in first-past-thepost seats but we should also call on our supporters to vote for the Scottish Nationalist Party - a defender of capitalism and big business!
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The comrades, like Kevin Williamson, who argue we must vote in the first vote for an anti union candidate are elevating separation of Scotland above all other considerations.