Scottish politics - what now for the SNP and the independence movement?
On Thursday 18th May the BBC held Question Time in Fort William. A few days later the National newspaper attacked Fiona Bruce for the way she described the recent woes of the SNP, but it does not take a genius to see that her description was pretty accurate - and, in truth, very much the same as described by senior SNP MP’s and MSP’s. This is just another example of why I gave up buying and reading the National: it is so biased and twisted in what it writes that I don’t see much difference between it and, say, the Daily Mail when it comes to reasonable reporting (it’s just pro independence as opposed to pro union).There can be no doubt that the past few months have been a bit of a nightmare for the SNP. At the same time, while opinion polls over the past few weeks have indicated a not surprising drop in support for the SNP there has been very little in the way of a drop in support for independence (maybe none at all - and maybe even an increase). This, for me, is not surprising, eithe