"SNP in turmoil," say Dundee Liberal Democrats

8.15.00am GMT Sun 5th Mar 2006

That's another fine mess you've got them into Alex ....

News that former SNP leader and Dundee MP Gordon Wilson has written a damning critique about the disastrous state of the SNP has, according to the Dundee City Council Liberal Democrat Group Leader, merely confirmed what everyone else has long since worked out.

SNP former leader Gordon Wilson, writing in the "Scots Independent" newspaper, accepts that the SNP - pushed into third place in Scotland by the Scottish Liberal Democrats- was "humiliated" at last year's Westminster election and that Alex Salmond's claim of 20 SNP constituency gains at next year's Scottish parliament elections is "regarded as absurd."

Dr Wilson says the SNP's best prospect next year is to become "minor partners with the Liberals" and that in the SNP's "current desperation, we would probably accept."

LibDem Council Group Leader here in Dundee, Cllr Fraser Macpherson, said today (Sunday 5th March), "It has been very obvious since 1997 that the SNP has lost the plot. In Dundee, the SNP group on the Council has proved a negative, non-constructive opposition. What Dr Wilson is saying about his party's disastrous state is exactly what the rest of us worked out long ago."