Saturday 14 October 2023
Here’s what you think about things
MP who defected to Tories likens SNP to ‘cult’
Lisa Cameron announced this week she would cross the floor, claiming there was a “toxic” culture within the SNP group at Westminster...
In an interview with the Scottish Daily Mail, Dr Cameron said she regretted not leaving sooner than Thursday, when she was just hours away from hearing the outcome of a selection contest in her East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow seat against SNP staffer Grant Costello.
Dr Cameron told the paper: “It is almost like, with the SNP, you sort of get indoctrinated a bit, I feel in an unhealthy way, and your identity gets merged with the doctrine. It’s like, ‘Here’s what you think about things’.
It's odd that a consultant clinical psychologist had to join the party, be selected as a parliamentary candidate and become an MP before she made this unsurprising discovery. Many people who aren't consultant clinical psychologists managed to work it out without going through all that.
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Last paragraph … yes.
Who knew? It's possible to be de-assimilated from the Borg.
Some people suspect that many psychologists are themselves a bit bonkers. It's what attracted them to the subject in the first place.
My guess is that she knew full well that there would be a great deal of pressure to toe the party line, but she didn't realise how obnoxious and harmful people would be in exerting it.
James - all parties must be like that to some degree, but the SNP sounds worse than most.
DJ - but most seem to prefer assimilation.
dearieme - and there is always the comfort of being able to say "he/she is even worse than I am."
Sam - I'm sure you are right. She couldn't treat them with professional detachment either because they weren't patients.
Off topic...
Janet, (Dr Finlay's housekeeper) "Aye Doctor, it's gruesome"!
Dr Cameron, "Aye Janet, an' it's grew some more..."!
(Coat applied for...).
Scrobs - ha ha, I wonder if they've worn well.
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