It’s the SNP’s big weekend out as party members and politicians make the painstaking journey to Aberdeen for the nationalists’ annual conference. Just seven months away from next year’s Scottish parliament elections, the Nats will spend the weekend discussing campaign strategy, devolved policy and – you guessed it – independence. It would appear the talks about separatism are about to get even barmier than usual, however, with SNP members set to face a vote on whether a provisional parliament should be set up north of the border to run alongside Holyrood as part of yet another pro-indy push. You can’t make this stuff up…
The move comes from the grassroots, as reported by the National, with party activist Graeme McCormick pursuing an amendment to First Minister John Swinney’s independence strategy that would see the creation of a provisional government populated by pro-indy MSPs. McCormick’s plan would also include the introduction of an independence delivery unit that he envisions as a group of people appointed by Swinney to help shape the SNP’s pro-indy campaign message ahead of next year’s poll. Crikey.
It is at odds with the SNP’s current independence strategy: Swinney claims that electing a majority of SNP MSPs next year would give the party a mandate for a second indyref. What the First Minister hasn’t made clear is whether the party’s failure to achieve this would mean that independence is off the table for another generation…
McCormick’s latest intervention sounds like a lot of hot air – but at least this time the activist has dropped his ‘flatulence in a trance‘ line…
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