SNP leader’s bizarre funding plea

The SNP will soon have more election campaign launch events than predicted Westminster seats if it continues at the rate it is going. The party’s latest launch — the third this year — was held in the luxury Radisson Blu hotel in Glasgow on Sunday afternoon, where party activists and political candidates gathered to hear a series of speeches ahead of the looming general election. 

Marketing itself as the party of ‘change’ (Mr S doesn’t have to look far to know where that’s been stolen from), the Nats slammed ‘continuity Keir’ as the ‘most right-wing Conservative Labour leader’ to date. But while the SNP is pledging to ‘eradicate’ child poverty and restore public ‘trust’ in politics, its new leader John Swinney was a little sheepish when quizzed on his party’s dwindling donations. With the SNP’s membership exodus and the ongoing police probe into party finances, the Nats have been struggling to raise funds — with many of their candidates resorting to Crowdfunders