The former Labour MP George Galloway has said that he is prepared to work with the Conservative party if it means ending the SNP’s grip on power at next year’s Holyrood election.
Mr Galloway believes his new Alliance for Unity Party can return several MSPs in 2021 due to voters’ disillusionment with the big pro-Union parties, who he claims have become “anonymous”.
He told the Sunday Mail: “We’ve got only one goal – to get the SNP out.”
Galloway added: “If we don’t get off this hamster wheel, this neverendum, we’ll never have normal politics in Scotland. Everything will be down to grudge and division.
“I’ll work with everybody to get the SNP out of power because they have been a disaster for Scotland for 13 long years of misrule.
“More importantly than that, their only purpose is to break up the country – and my belief is the majority of people don’t want that.
“But we’re locked into this endless, tedious, and increasingly fractious politics of nationalism and grudge.
“Whoever wins next year’s election should form a national coalition government whose first purpose is to repair relations between Scotland and the rest of Britain.”
He continued: “We don’t want a Tory or a Labour government. We want a national unity government that will begin this task of returning normality to Scottish politics.
“I’m against the SNP more than I’m against anyone else. That doesn’t mean I’m for anyone else.”
Mr Galloway who was born in Dundee launched Alliance for Unity earlier this month after being appalled at suggestions the border between Scotland and England could be closed as part of quarantine measures to stop the spread of Covid-19.
When he was asked if some Conservative voters might be turned off casting their ballot for him given his political history, Galloway said: “If they are voting for me and my list it’s only to oppose the SNP.
“Any other political differences we may have are secondary to our wish to see an end to this endless grudge and division. And so far I think there are quite a lot of takers for that.
“To win one seat we’ll need about 16,000 votes but I think we’ll win far more than one in the south of Scotland – and there are many other parts of the Scotland where we’ll do very well.”
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