Joanna Cherry blasts SNP’s ‘culture of hate’

Another day, another drama – and this time it’s the SNP in the spotlight. Ex-Edinburgh MP Joanna Cherry has taken to the august pages of Scotland’s only pro-indy newspaper, the National, to urge her party to take a long hard look at itself after its electoral wipe-out this month. Though she has insisted she ‘intends to remain a member of the SNP’, Cherry has pulled no punches in her criticism of her colleagues. It’s quite the read…

Blasting the ‘culture of hate’ that the party has ‘allowed to flourish…against those who dare to disagree’, Cherry has lamented the ‘”no debate” mantra’ coursing through the current iteration of the party. Going on, she raged:

I find it profoundly depressing to see where we are now. The positivity is gone and some people within our movement feel they have licence to attack those with whom they disagree in the most unpleasant terms. No wonder we are putting voters off.