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Trouble in paradise…SNP MEP says leadership should admit they made a mistake over independent Scotland’s EU membership

By Caron Lindsay | Tue 29th April 2014 - 10:14 pm

So we’ve had the first real sign of jitters within the SNP ranks tonight. Up until now, they’ve been as tight as anything, united against everyone else as they pursue their lifelong goals. In fact, I suspect there might have been a few times Nick Clegg has looked at the loyalty of SNP members and elected members and maybe felt a wee pang of envy. Even when two SNP MSPs resigned the whip over the party’s abandoning of its anti NATO stance, it was all done more in sorrow than anger. …

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