AN SNP MP who lost his seat at the General Election has said John Swinney must be a 'ruthless bastard' and scrap the party's commitment to…
MP who lost his seat at the General Election has said John Swinney must be a"ruthless bastard" and scrap the party's commitment to removing nuclear weapons from Scotland within two years of the nation becoming independent.
After the SNP returned nine MPs, down from 48 in 2019, many within the party have called for a change in direction ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections. Asked directly however if the SNP getting “horsed” was now the most likely outcome of that election, McDonald said: “Yes.”“I think we have a cultural problem within the SNP and that cultural problem is about seriousness," he said.which set out how the SNP would fight the election as a “de facto” referendum on independence, in the wake of the refusal of successive prime ministers to permit a second vote on Scotland’s place in the UK.
Speaking about the “wholesale change and upgrade and personality change that the party needs”, McDonald added: “I want to see us grow up, I want to see us get serious. I want to see us have a debate where there are no sacred cows, nothing is off the table.He noted that the SNP conference next month has a debate scheduled on what the national anthem for an independent Scotland should be – something he insisted he could not “give a monkey’s” about."I think he could do it.
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