After two decades as an untouchable political force, the SNP is falling apart. Scandal piles on top of scandal and an ongoing police investigation (which this week led to the arrest of SNP treasurer Colin Beattie) can only intensify the party’s problems.
The nationalists’ political opponents, for so long fearful of their dominance, now laugh at the blackly comic details of this unprecedented crisis. Those SNP members not drowning in despair sustain themselves with bleak gallows humour.
