'I can't imagine how things could be any worse,' says one veteran SNP politician. 'Independence is properly dead for at least a generation and the party's falling apart. How's your day going?'
One former politician and senior strategist says: 'Okay, we have to accept things had been bad for a while but if you looked at the polling it wasn't all completely terrible. We've known for a long time we were going to lose seats at the next General Election but the signs were we were still going to come out of 2026 as the biggest party.
'When people abandoned Labour for us, they absolutely turned on them. Why wouldn't they do the same to us when they leave us for Labour? It'll be all"I didn't leave the SNP, the SNP left me" and we're going to be this nice big repository for everyone's anger.' New alliances were formed. The nationalist Scottish Green party campaigned, arm in arm, with the SNP. Nicola Sturgeon and Green co-leader Patrick Harvie formed a double-act, pitching for the votes of younger Scots and endlessly singing each others praises.
Scotland's then First Minister Alex Salmond and Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon hold copies of the White Paper in 2013 When Mr Yousaf succeeded Ms Sturgeon last March, he made the fatal mistake of continuing with her agenda and hoping this would achieve a different result for his party.
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