SNP bloggergate
March 17, 2010 by David Torrance
Perusing coverage of the latest SNP blogging row, in which Nationalist Alan Clayton made some controversial remarks about the tragic death of a young Labour activist in Glasgow, it struck me that I’d seen Clayton’s name before. Could this be the same Alan Clayton who, ironically, was once a Labour activist himself before joining the SNP and becoming involved in its ’79 Group’ faction (which also boasted Alex Salmond, Kenny MacAskill, Stewart Stevenson and Roseanna Cunningham)? Even more interesting is the fact that when, at the 1982 SNP Ayr conference, the former SNP leader Gordon Wilson moved a resolution banning internal groups it was none other than Alan Clayton who seconded it. A few months later Salmond et al were expelled from the party. No surprise, then, that the First Minister hasn’t exactly been leaping to Mr Clayton’s defence…
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