THE SNP IN TRUE COLOURS (1)

This matter,  that of the Scottish National Party in its true,  unadulterated colours,  has long been the elephant in the Scottish political room,  avoided by friend and foe alike.   It is now very much to the fore.

We are,  of course,  referring to this week's Conservative Party's shenanigans at Perth where Mr Sunak and Ms Truss were vying for the votes of Scottish Tories in their quest for the primeministership of the UK.  It turned out to be quite a night but for the wrong reasons.

As always,  the BBC sent senior reporters to cover the event,  this time its BBC Scotland editor,  James Cook.  Forgetting completely the political event inside the hall,  the hostile Nationalist crowd outside turned on Mr Cook instead,  calling him inter alia a 'rat',  a 'scumbag'  and a 'traitor'.  That Mr Cook is a fellow Scotsman made no difference whatever.  He's a BBC man and that was good enough for the mob to turn vile.

Sadly,  this sort of thing - following on from the Nationalists' infamous march on the BBC at Pacific Quay some years ago - has become the norm for many within the Scottish National Party.  While Nicola Sturgeon subsequently,  and meekly,  decried the incident,  there is no doubt at all that the SNP  style of leadership - where everying Scottish is good and everything English is bad - has contributed greatly,  if not entirely,  to the fury of those mobs. After all,  we take our cue from our leaders,  don't we? 

Such events remind one of a certain part of Europe in the 1930s.  They remind one also that we have people of the exact same mentality living here in our midst in the Western Isles of Scotland.

And,  guess what?  Poileas Alba  did absolutely bugger all about it!  Not a bloody thing!