LAST month, as the Scottish Parliament pulled down the shutters in preparation for the May elections, Nicola Sturgeon appealed to voters to put their trust in the SNP’s experience in leadership and governance. It is an experience that many voters may wish to forget.
The First Minister had just survived a vote of no confidence for misleading parliament. Her deputy, John Swinney, survived another vote of no confidence for withholding evidence from the Salmond inquiry.
The experience of voters after watching Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond fighting like cats in a sack was not a pleasant one. Nor was the experience of confronting the worst recession in our history, while the SNP Government wasted time on their endless and selfish obsession with breaking up Britain.