Just a quick point that occurred to me the other day, and apologies if someone else has already pointed this out. The longest-running UK government since the Second World War was the Thatcher/Major Conservative government that held office for exactly two days short of eighteen years. It came to power on 4th May 1979 and was ousted on 2nd May 1997.
The SNP government in Scotland has now exceeded that record. It took office on 17th May 2007, which means it has been in power for eighteen years, one month and six days. The only minor sense in which the comparison is not an exact one is that the Thatcher/Major government was always a single-party Tory administration, whereas the SNP had the ill-fated period of coalition with the Greens, and technically some or all of the law officers have been independents (ie. non-party).
But those are no more than points of pedantry, because the government has clearly been totally dominated by the SNP throughout. From a purely party political point of view, ie. leaving aside for a moment the frustrations over the lack of progress on independence, that is quite some achievement.
I saw from a tweet that Stew Campbell had written a blogpost about me called "Anatomy of a L...", with the rest of the L word obscured. I knew without even checking that it would be "Lunatic". The poor chap's vocabulary range has shrunk to almost nothingness.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) June 23, 2025
And yes, I will be wearily responding to my Somerset stalker's 7562nd blogpost about me, but it'll probably have to wait until at least tomorrow at this stage.
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