An unmistakable air of excitement …
“Friends, including long time Labour supporters talk of being astonished by their own elation at the result of this election. There is an unmistakable air of excitement, of optimism even …”
The Sunday Herald’s Iain McWhirter (read his excellent article here http://iainmacwhirter2.blogspot.com/) has been getting a very similar reaction to me. People who dreaded an SNP victory are shocked to discover just how their thinking has changed. I’ve always said to people that I felt quite confident in promising them they would see one day that we were right all along. I don’t mean that in an arrogant way. I just know that all we want is to enable our country and the people living in it to be the best it (they) can. And I’ve never doubted that once people started trusting us, they would start to feel positive about our future.
Maybe part of their “elation” is because they’re thinking “we did it! Scotland did it!” and I’m sure that comes as a surprise to many folk. But I think what’s happening is that people are seeing that we CAN make a difference, small country that we are, we CAN make an impact in the world. And if just about electing an SNP government can have that effect, think how we could transform our thinking and our entire attitude if we moved forward to take our place as an Independent nation.
