Troublemaking isn’t confined these days to the SNP’s Westminster group. It seems that nationalists north of the border have got the bug for insurrection too. Fergus Ewing, SNP MSP for Inverness and Nairn, has revealed that there is a ‘toxic atmosphere amongst the SNP group in Holyrood’ and that he doesn’t think the Nats stand a chance of winning another indyref just now thanks to the party’s ‘extremist’ policies. The son of late nationalist legend Winnie Ewing told the Holyrood Sources podcast that things are not all hunky dory in Edinburgh:
The atmosphere in Holyrood is not particularly happy now within the SNP group. There’s many people in the cabinet and the leadership that haven’t uttered a word to me or vice versa for well over a year.
Ewing hinted too at his contempt for one group of politicians in particular:
The most serious thing that Humza should do, in my opinion, is to detach himself from this dalliance with the Greens… and win back the trust and confidence of people whose votes we used to get in rural and highland Scotland.
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