Yes, they look 'socialist' if that list is the only agenda.
You probably know I'm rabid anti-right-wing but while never an extreme leftist, I've always wanted the 'fairest-for-all' in my political outlook.
I'm among the minority who support raising taxes in order to help reduce poverty and improve services. I support re-nationalisation of the railways, post office, telecommunications and energy.
So, I am a very infrequent reader of the likes of the Telegraph and would normally not agree with much in it. However, this snippet struck a chord with me:
They also want to control the media in Scotland, dilute education to the point that no-one sees through what they're up to and, for me, the real danger is what happens when they eventually have the absolute power that Sturgeon craves?If you’d like to know a little about life under the SNP, tune into West Sound Radio sometime. It’s the station that I grew up with on the west of Scotland, and to which I still listen sometimes, on Sunday mornings, for that little bit of hometown connection. The programmes themselves are fine. It’s the news and adverts in between that would make English centre-Right hair curl. The preaching on how to live your life is relentlessness. And this is life under an SNP government: it really does know best, knows that it knows best, and if you don’t agree that it knows best, will spend your money to tell you it knows best.
The list, though, is part of their UK manifesto. They know they have no chance of making any impact on UK politics so they can put out the most socio-friendly soundbites you'll see anywhere as they'll never have to fulfil them.