Doubts over SNP

WHAT a week this has been. An SNP government that seemed unstoppable has been badly shaken. A referendum that seemed firmly on course for success already seems doomed. A First Minister who seemed almost infallible now appears highly vulnerable.

There is a chronic immaturity at the heart of the SNP, which all the best efforts of Alex Salmond have been unable to wholly eliminate.

My case illustrates this best, perhaps. I am a Catholic layman who worked tirelessly for the SNP for all of my adult life. Just over a year ago I made a personal error of judgment in comments about a councillor in a private e-mail. Two weeks earlier, Nicola Sturgeon had made a similar error of judgment in the Abdul Rauf fraudster case. We both apologised.

Ms Sturgeon carried on as normal and I was expelled. Many Christian people now have serious doubts about the party they voted for a few months ago. I share these doubts.

Alan Clayton, Strachur, Argyll