Picture the scene around a year from now. We’ve just had a general election. The SNP has gone from 48 MPs in 2019 to, say, 30. Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf announces he is starting the process of taking Scotland out of the UK in line with the policy his party adopted the previous year. Papers are published. Scottish civil servants are instructed to start preparing for secession.
The new UK administration has already given its response: there is no mandate for independence and no legal basis for its implementation. Regardless, Yousaf and his team set off for London to demand Scotland’s right to break away. He’s read the history books – or at least seen documentaries on the Discovery Channel – and knows that maintaining momentum at this moment will be critical to success.
These comical antics aside, the SNP conference was marked by another, perhaps more troubling, phenomenon: rampant misinformation.
But no UK government representative is there to greet them at the airport.
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