The SNP’s election manifesto, unveiled last week by the party’s new leader, John Swinney, is unlikely to transform the situation. It sounds just like the last one, and the one before that.

What’s really noticeable about the political mood north of the border today, said Gerald Warner on Reaction, is just how little interest there is in the Westminster election. It is viewed with the same indifference as elections to the EU parliament. “Scots have come to regard Holyrood elections as the ones that matter.”

This is an alarming development for those who believe in preserving the United Kingdom. For it suggests that the “separatist mindset” is now embedded among Scotland’s voters, and that if the SNP are “ever able to cobble together a plausible fiscal scenario for independence, the Union will be in serious danger”.

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