It seems the SNP’s prospects are as gloomy as the Granite City. Day one of the nationalists’ shindig in Aberdeen has already seen a range of, er, unorthodox contributions made on the main stage. It turns out that there are people madder than the SNP politicians: the party’s membership. From furious talk of ‘treason’ to a star turn from an SNP activist who recently launched a leadership bid to topple Humza Yousaf, it’s been another stellar outing for the self-identifying ‘natural party of government’.
Today’s members’ discussion was focused on – what else? – independence. Lowlights included both independence minister Jamie Hepburn and Scotland’s First Minister being forced to defend their current approach as not ‘flatulence in a trance’, in the words of one delegate. Talk about hot air…
And if that wasn’t strange enough, an SNP activist used the rest of his time on the main stage to call for economic anarchy:
We must become ungovernable, we must make the economic and social cost of keeping Scotand in the union greater than the cost of letting us go.
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