It’s often remarked how the SNP encapsulates different strands of opinion, some statist, some libertarian and even suggested that after independence it will split into factions – wishful thinking of Labour strategists like McTernan. But what is true is that it is simultaneously business-friendly and welfare-minded. It can reach the entrepreneur with a tax-cutting, less red tape approach and win the Left with fair pay and dignity level benefits. The SNP wins the shopkeeper in Forfar, the fund manger in Edinburgh, the binman in Glasgow. Look who the MPs are – a breast surgeon, a university professor, an international banker, a lawyer and actress, a trade union official, a female QC, a TV producer, a broadcaster, a business maverick, a former Labour official, a politics student. http://derekbateman.co.uk/2015/05/12/secret-formula/