Campbell has now openly stated that the goal of his "tactical voting" advice is the total destruction of the SNP - a goal that is so obviously unachievable that it suggests a complete loss of rationality. The issue is therefore no longer arithmetical - it's psychological.Stuart "Stew" Campbell has posted yet another article demanding that SNP supporters should vote tactically against their party on the list ballot next year - something that he claimed only a few weeks ago was almost impossible to do and insisted he would never advocate. Even if we leave aside the breathtaking nature of that contradiction, his arithmetical claims in support of tactical voting are yet again bogus, but it's almost redundant to go through the motions of debunking them again, because he finishes his piece by openly admitting his goal is the total destruction of the SNP - which suggests a complete loss of all rationality, given that it's plainly unachievable, even if he could somehow explain why it's desirable or would in any way help the situation. The issue is therefore now a psychological one rather than arithmetical.
He repeatedly challenges people in his article to explain how it's possible to get SNP list MSPs elected - so isn't it reasonable to ask how precisely he proposes to destroy the SNP, an infinitely more difficult objective? How would he even define "destruction"? Why has he concluded that internal reform of the SNP, as difficult as it undoubtedly is, is somehow *more* impossible than the total destruction of Scotland's leading party, which by his own admission is heading for another major victory in the constituency ballot next year? On what does he base his seemingly absolute faith that the destruction of the SNP, even if that could be achieved, would lead to a ready-made party of Wonder and Wisdom popping up out of nowhere to take its place, complete with levels of popular support that most new parties would need decades to have any remote chance of building up?
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Source: Campbell has now openly stated that the goal of his "tactical voting" advice is the total destruction of the SNP - a goal that is so obviously unachievable that it suggests a complete loss of rationality. The issue is therefore no longer arithmetical - it's psychological. (//)