SNP members are forever tweeting about the disgraceful absence of rival parties at one debate or other, though many wonder if it is to avoid rubbing shoulders with Labourites and Tories that they turn up in the Commons chamber. What a pity that just three of the 56 members of the elect from the self-declared party for social justice found their way to a poverty debate initiated by their renegade colleague Natalie McGarry.
The Glasgow East MP has been suspended from the party whip while police investigate the finances of her Women for Independence group, established as a vehicle for her political ambitions – that is, Scottish freedom.
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