Stephen Flynn: “Most of the folk that I’ve spoken to in the city have shared my anger at what happened to SNP members who’ve had their…”

It’s almost like he has been taking advice from Anas Sarwar, the man who told us that he was a lifelong campaigner against the House of Lords, just as he was taking up a seat in the House of Lords.

But let’s make sure that power and that decision making is taken by the Scottish people and they have the opportunity to do so in an independence referendum.

He knows – he understands – that for as long as the binds of their Union continue to burst at the seams, there is no possible way that any UK Prime Minister can seriously survive.

There is no shortcut. There is no political wheeze that can change the task ahead of us.