Despite the troubles facing the SNP, a revolution would be needed to remove it from power. Its core demand still stirs so many hearts
There is palpable glee in Westminster at the current predicament of the Scottish National party – with Nicola Sturgeon’s husband, Peter Murrell, the party’s former chief executive, arrested last week, but released without charge pending further inquiries, as part of an investigation into SNP finances. But the unionist joy is misplaced.
Even without a resolution, and amid the party’s denial of any wrongdoing, the assumption is that independence is the cult of a political clique that has finally been rumbled.
Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist
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