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Encyclopedia > SNP Gradualist

The gradualist viewpoint within the Scottish National Party (SNP) is the idea that Scottish independence can be won by the accumulation by the Scottish Parliament of powers that the UK Parliament currently has over a protracted period of time. It is also a philosophy that emphasises the election of a SNP government should bring about trust in the Scottish people in the ability of Scotland to govern itself, thus bringing increased support for independence.


Gradualism stands in opposition to the so called 'fundamentalist' point of view that would stress the SNP's support of independence more, and appear to have coined the term 'fundamentalist' too. Critics of gradualism maintain that it allows the UK parliament to dictate Scotland's status, rather than allowing people in Scotland itself to self-determine.


Most political commentators today acknowledge that the current SNP leadership is by in large of the gradualist mould.


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SNP fundamentalist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (202 words)
The fundamentalist ideology within the Scottish National Party (SNP) is the belief that the SNP should emphasise its policy of Scottish independence more widely in order to achieve it.
The argument goes that if the SNP is unprepared to argue for its central policy then they are unlikely ever to persuade the public of its worthiness.
It should also be noted that this term is considered pejorative by some people, considering the negative overtones of the word fundamentalism in religious contexts, and that it appears to have been coined by the Gradualist faction.
Scottish National Party (5052 words)
The SNP's early years were characterised by a lack of electoral progress and it wasn't until 1945 that the SNP's first member was elected to the UK parliament at Westminster.
The SNP continued to ride high in the opinion polls throughout the 1970s, and many members are convinced that if the Liberals, led by David Steel hadn't supported the Labour Government of the time, the SNP might have made further electoral gains in the resulting general election.
They charge the SNP with trying to appear solidly left-wing in urban Central Scotland where they are trying to unseat the Labour Party, and with appearing more moderate in rural Scotland where their electoral challenge is more often than not against the Tories or the Liberal Democrats.
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