Quote Originally Posted by rob murray View Post
Yeah whatever ! More tribalistic hair splitting crap : vote SNP as Sturgeons the only credible party leader in the UK....why...my point is still valid...she wont be a UK MP...and her party are utter stirring liars, hopefully her clone / drone / hero..Alexi wont be an MP either : why vote for them ?
And come the Scottish Elections the Party Leaders based in London have no say at all in the basic principles of their parties sitting in Holyrood, and what they will do once they become MSPs? REALLY? If that is the case, why did Lamont leave her position at the "head" of Scottish Labour stating that the Scottish party was nothing more than a UK Branch Office with little/no autonomy.

Re Westminster, the MPs of all parties get their "guidance" from the party leader via the whip system.......why on earth else does anyone think they have a whip system.
Nicola will have as much influence among SNP Westminster MPs as Alex Salmond did when he was Party Leader while sitting in the Scottish Parliament. The party leader is important as the public face of the party, as well...which is why the Tories, Labour and LibDems are struggling, because their leaders are not currently overly popular among the public.