SNP manifesto launch: you can take the mountain metaphors too far
Hm… You can take the metaphors too far, too easily. So the SNP launches its manifesto in the International Climbing Centre outside Edinburgh today and half of me is all Julie Andrews and “Climb Every Mountain” …. Party in ascendency… Scaling the heights ….You can continue this.
Then again there is Jimmy Cliff and “the harder they come, the harder they fall”. And many more along those lines. Tricky stuff. And in any case the symbolism of this place is tarnished by Wikipedia telling us it has had a rather troubled financial history. Over-inflated ideas about its prospects.
But the effect is undeniably impressive. I write this stuck in traffic as the large crowd tries to leave the launch. Nicola Sturgeon isn’t the greatest orator for all that she is thought by many to be the most effective politician in the UK right now.