Well, well, well. SNP conference has gotten off to a rather, er, interesting start. As one might expect, the subject of independence has dominated the first day of the big meet-up in Aberdeen. The party’s strategy as laid out by First Minister John Swinney says that an SNP majority at next year’s Holyrood election would be a mandate for a second independence referendum. But party activists aren’t happyabout the state of the SNP: both its independence stance and the way the party has conducted itself more generally over the last few years. Mr S can hardly blame them…

The crowd sat up when veteran Graeme McCormack – of ‘ flatulence in a trance ‘ fame – took to the stage for a punchy three-minute amendment speech urging the membership and candidates to go further than the party leadersh

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