Originally Posted by
fred
The SNP were formed in 1934 and were gradually gaining popularity when WWII broke out. In the early years of the war they believed, as did many others, that Germany would win and were hoping to do a deal with Hitler to form a puppet government for an Independent Scotland. Their leader, Douglas Young was imprisoned for attempting to subvert the British war effort and Arthur Donaldson, who went on to be leader in 1960, was arrested in 1941 after subversive literature and weapons were found at his home. He was running an organisation which helped Scots avoid conscription.
Due to Germany losing the war they were somewhat unpopular after that and didn't manage to get an MP into Westminster for long until after they found oil in the North Sea and greed reared it's ugly head.
After oil was found their popularity grew in leaps and bounds but after failing to get devolution in 1979 a group of them decided to take direct action. The plan was to ally the SNP with the Socialist parties then organise a campaign of mass civil disobedience, use the power of the unions. After it was leaked to the press that they had been invited to Ireland by the IRA the members of this group were expelled from the party but sequentially allowed back in and one of them, Alex Salmond, is now their leader.
I don't think any of them, Nationalist or Unionist, gives a hoot about the people of Scotland or Britain, Independence is all about a shift of power between one part of the ruling elite to another and it galls me that they are using the crimes committed by the ruling elite of history against the common people as a weapon in their propaganda war.