SNP’s ‘urgent plea’ to house campaigning Westminster staffers

Oh dear. No one party appears to be enjoying an especially slick campaign at present, but north of the border the SNP seems particularly down on its luck. As Mr S noted on Monday, the Nats are not exactly swimming in cash at the moment — the party is struggling to bring donations in while the police probe into its finances remains ongoing — and separatist candidate have been forced to plead with the public for help with their campaign Crowdfunders.

Now the Nats are faced with a fresh problem: where to house the party’s central Westminster team, who are loyally trekking north to help with election efforts. Well, if the London-based campaigners had high hopes for hotel bookings, they can forget it. It transpires that an ‘urgent plea’ has been sent out to the SNP’s Holyrood group, seen by the Scottish Daily Mail, that begs MSPs to ‘provide accommodation (spare room or flat) to staffers from Westminster for six weeks’.