ALEX MASSIE | COMMENT
Another ‘summer of independence’ highlights SNP’s political bankruptcy
Even keen supporters might feel they are being taken for fools by their leadership
The Times
Despite it often being attributed to him, there is no evidence Mahatma Gandhi ever said: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
A version of this comforting mantra was actually uttered in 1914 by an American trade unionist called Nicholas Klein: “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you — and that,” he concluded magnificently, “is what is going to happen to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.”
For Humza Yousaf, however, the risk is this process will happen the other way round. The road to being ignored begins with victory and passes through ridicule. At the weekend
