Wings Over Scotland | Step One

Today’s Sunday Mail leads for the second week in a row on questions about the finances of Yes Scotland.

But there’s a paragraph in the online version of the story that doesn’t make the print edition, and it’s a shame, because it’s a very telling one.

This is it, from Yes Scotland’s former marketing director Ian Dommett:

And unfortunately, until the rest of the SNP’s voters join the 414,000 who walked away from the party between the 2021 and 2026 Holyrood elections and contrive to somehow get that key realisation into their thick heads, Scotland will never take a single step closer to independence.

The SNP’s entire reason for existence now is failing to win independence. Failure is what protects their wages and their power. No government as incompetent as this one wins elections on its record. The moment independence was achieved, the Scottish electorate would give someone else a chance at actually running the country after 20+ years of the same party in charge, and the SNP cannot allow that to happen.

Sadly, if even this sort of thing (from The National on Tuesday):

isn’t enough to wake up the loyal, tribal dunderheads, it’s likely that nothing will be.

And on we’ll limp, year after year, in ever-shrinking circles, going nowhere.