The SNP's clientelism is really just a maximally aggressive form of what Labour or Democrats in the US are doing and is a crisis for the centre left - to deliver government programs and services that don't damage the over all economy's productivity growth, you must be able to deliver those services with basic efficiency, objectivity, and with goals that align with providing actual value to the whole public. That's not easy, in fact it's a full time job for civil service leadership and elected official oversight. Instead it's seen as secondary objective to ideological and partisan ends.
Labour's efforts to revive Section 1 of the 2010 Equality Act and the new race and disability legislation are examples. The primary problems with UK services and private business is not lack of regulation, it's the immense friction needed to do business in the UK and inefficiency that passed into dysfunction of the non-private sector, and consequently the collapse in investment. Instead of focusing on improving how services are delivered, Labour is increasingly trying to shift the frame of discussion into a divisive ideological one. The inability to pass basic EHRC guidelines updates following the SC FWS case because its ideologically misaligned is an example of this basic breakdown in good governance, which Labour promised to make better.