Is the Scottish National Party Left?

[ToldYouSo]

What is the SNP? Left? Centre Left? Right? Do you support them?

[ToldYouSo]

*left wing

[Futility Personified]

I think they're like Old Labour, or perhaps the Greens in England.

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

Center-left. No, I don't support them.

[Brutus]

Old labour as in Keir Hardie?

[GiantMonkeyMan]

They aren't left. There are minor leftist groups supporting their call for independence but the SNP are not a leftist party.

[Comrade #138672]

I think a National Party can never be truly Leftist.

Perhaps only in occupied countries.

[Blake's Baby]

Centre-right. The Conservatives ('Conservative and Unionist') are nowhere in Scotland. A pro-business but Scottish nationalist party occupies the ground that the Conservatives occupy in the rest of the UK.

That's my 10-second analysis anyway.

[Sasha]

Nationalist social-dems, so rightwing in our framework, center-left in mainstream terms

[TheEmancipator]

They used to be centre-right but I think you can call them a populist left of centre party. Their main goal is just independence, so Salmond moved the SNP to the left to siphon votes off Labour.

No way are they "Old Labour" socialists though. They just pretend to be.