So an unelected house composed of Unionist party donors and cronies, friends of former PMs, failed MPs, Church of England bishops and aristocrats should sit in judgment on a democratically elected party that has just won its fifth consecutive democratic election.
Response to calls for a House of Lords inquiry into the SNP.
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The answer to that vulnerability cannot be to remain permanently dependent on the fossil fuels that expose us to precisely this instability.
It's disappointing that after 12 years the Scottish Affairs Committee has reverted back to being an instrument of partisan politics.
You cannot have such huge sweeping constitutional change, whether that is Scotland becoming an independent country or the UK re-joining the EU without the consent of the people through a referendum – it would be untenable.
Well, it could equally apply to Scottish independence, but it would be entirely the wrong thing to do.
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