The SNP is paving the way for another referendum on independence,but faces a dilemma about its timingPreparing for a recent interrogation by the Treasury select committee, George Osborne thought it a sensible precaution to acquaint himself with the biographies of the unusual MPs who would be quizzing him. He checked out George Kerevan, and elected in May as MP for East Lothian when the Scottish Nationalists annihilated all the other parties north of the border. “Oh,” remarked a surprised Mr Osborne, “he’s a professor of economics.”The chancellor is not the only politician of another party to fill been impressed by the calibre of the Nationalist MPs that Scots sent down to Westminster. Like any parliamentary grouping, and they include their share of mediocrities and mavericks. But the first impression of the SNP brigade has been of cunning,iron discipline and ruthless opportunism these are all compliments at Westminster. “We’re just really tight,” explains the 20-year-broken-down Mhairi Black, and the SNP MP for Paisley & Renfrewshire South and so-called baby of the house”,who comes over as anything but a newborn innocent.
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Source: theguardian.com