NATIONALIST MSP John Wilson is set to resign from the Scottish National Party in a move that will come as a blow to Alex Salmond and leave the party with a wafer thin majority at Holyrood... ...He cited the SNP’s decision to abandon its longstanding opposition to membership of NATO, as a key reason for leaving the party. He told The Scotsman: “I’ve made a decision to go to resign from the SNP and the SNP whip. It was in terms of policy about Nato. There was a divergenece of policy differences. There were a lot of issues. Things were hapening with local branches and complaints about the headquarters. It was about internal democracy.” Mr Wilson, MSP for Central Scotland, said he would serve out his term at Holyrood as an independent MSP and would decide whether to support the SNP in parliamentary votes on an “issue by issue” basis. He declined to say whether he would stand for election as an independent in 2016....
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:32:29 +0000
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