It seems to be all going to pot for the SNP. The party’s chief executive and its top spinner are heading for the exit as the ongoing shambles of a leadership race continues to claim more scalps than a Scorsese flick. And it seems the pressure is getting to some of the SNP’s grandees, judging by their touchy attitude towards the reinvigorated Scottish press.
Today it was the turn of Alison Thewliss, the party’s Home Affairs spokesman at Westminster, who threw a very public fit on Twitter after having her regular column spiked in the Daily Record last week. ‘I had never been told what to write until this weekend,’ she declared. ‘I wrote a piece on the Asylum Ban Bill, because it is topical and important. I’ve been binned’. Poor lamb.
Thewliss accompanied her tweet with a screenshot from the paper’s political editor Paul Hutcheon asking, not unreasonably, for her to write about the ongoing SNP contest as it ‘seems like the biggest issue just now.’
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