Scottish National Party

Breakaway SNP strikes fear into Westminster parties but notions of independence are flawed

Image: Nicola Sturgeon (Courtesy express.co.uk)

 

The SNP (Scottish National Party), under feisty new leader Nicola Sturgeon, is scaring the daylights out of Labour and Conservatives with the prospect of a strong squad of MPs marching south headed by fearsome former leader and political bruiser Alex Salmond.

 

 

Scottish First Minister leads united call for Iraq war report disclosure

RT | January 19, 2015 Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon has called for a united political movement to demand the immediate publication of the Chilcot Inquiry report into the legality of the 2003 Iraq invasion. Sturgeon has written to other Scottish party leaders, urging them to unite in favor of immediate publication. The […]

Scots U-turn on anti-nukes policy

Press TV -June 25, 2013

The Scottish government has U-turned on its pledge to remove Trident nuclear weapons from the Scottish soil if Scots vote for independence in the 2014 referendum.
The ruling Scottish National Party (SNP) said in a set of proposals for defending an independent Scotland that Faslane naval base, which is the home to British Trident nuclear weapons, could remain a sovereign UK territory after the Scottish independence.