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Herald Scotland : Membership of the SNP [Scottish National Party] has officially passed 100,000, giving the party a massive campaigning advantage as it enters a potentially historic General Election. Not bad, with Scotland’s population standing at roughly 5.3 million. Herald Scotland (my emphasis added) The vast army of foot soldiers means the SNP heads towards May 7 as the third-largest party in the UK – twice the size of the LibDems, two-thirds the size of the Tories, and half the size of Labour…. The latest polls suggest the SNP, which currently has six MPs, could win more than 50 of the 59 Westminster seats in Scotland. However, senior party figures believe 30 would be a good result, as they expect to be squeezed by Labour and the Tories as voters focus on who they want to be Prime Minister. … Two years ago, at its 2013 spring conference, the SNP was welcoming member number 25,000. Its quadrupling since the No vote in the referendum means one person in 50 in Scotland is now a member of the party, the equivalent of Labour or the Tories having more than one million members at UK level – something neither party has enjoyed since the 1950s. So the ‘no’ settled the question, eh? Over at CapX , Gerald Warner has a review of a book written by Alex Salmond (the former leader of the SNP) on the referendum campaign: Salmond is right to assert that the referendum changed Scotland forever, or at least threatens to do so, though he cannot
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Herald Scotland : Membership of the SNP [Scottish National Party] has officially passed 100,000, giving the party a massive campaigning advantage as it enters a potentially historic General Election. Not bad, with Scotland’s population standing at roughly 5.3 million. Herald Scotland (my emphasis added) The vast army of foot soldiers means the SNP heads towards May 7 as the third-largest party in the UK – twice the size of the LibDems, two-thirds the size of the Tories, and half the size of Labour…. The latest polls suggest the SNP, which currently has six MPs, could win more than 50 of the 59 Westminster seats in Scotland. However, senior party figures believe 30 would be a good result, as they expect to be squeezed by Labour and the Tories as voters focus on who they want to be Prime Minister. … Two years ago, at its 2013 spring conference, the SNP was welcoming member number 25,000. Its quadrupling since the No vote in the referendum means one person in 50 in Scotland is now a member of the party, the equivalent of Labour or the Tories having more than one million members at UK level – something neither party has enjoyed since the 1950s. So the ‘no’ settled the question, eh? Over at CapX , Gerald Warner has a review of a book written by Alex Salmond (the former leader of the SNP) on the referendum campaign: Salmond is right to assert that the referendum changed Scotland forever, or at least threatens to do so, though he cannot
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