SNP launches National Monologue
In the Scottish Parliamentary elections held in May this year the Scottish National Party emerged, albeit by the narrowest of margins, as the biggest single faction within the Scottish Parliament. Stan Crooke looks at what has happened since. The SNP now runs a minority administration, albeit with semi-formal support from the two Green MSPs. SNP leader Alex Salmond and his party wants to build popular support and big business support for independence, in preparation for a referendum to be held in 2010. Only a minority of the Scottish population currently supports independence for Scotland...