Sentences with phrase «snp activists»

In a speech to SNP activists, she said a party that «frightens the life out of the Westminster establishment» was «good news for ordinary people in Scotland and right across these islands».

At the weekend's National Council in Perth, SNP activists supported a resolution calling for shooting estate licensing to be introduced in Scotland, making it certified party policy to support licensing for driven grouse estates.

Some Scottish Labour and SNP activists can be painfully tribal, but it would be wrong to assume that this transfers down to all their voters!

SNP activists were boosted by news of a # 1 million donation from poet Edwin Morgan as Westminster leader Angus Robertson unveiled their «roadmap» to independence.

Not exact matches

These activists and MSPs have bought into the myth that the SNP outgunned Labour from the left.

Yet, for all the success of the SNP, the veteran activist I quote above believes all is not well.

The SNP's army of activists won't have it easy however.

That's a lot of activists - 1,000, I'm told - but there's some confidence here that Labour voters are swinging over to the SNP.

Former Lib Dem Minister Vince Cable will join Shadow Defence Secretary Clive Lewis MP, Green MP Caroline Lucas, Tommy Sheppard MP of the SNP, and others at a sold out event of 1000 activists from all the progressive parties in central London.

Until recently, the SNP even struggled to get its activists to take those elections seriously.

Since its launch and its exposure as a Brotherhood - linked organisation, the SIF (whose Chief Executive is also a Scottish National Party activist) has received # 215,000 from Alex Salmond's SNP administration.

They claim 13 Labour candidates received visits from Harriet Harman's «pink bus» but did not declare this in their local returns, with the cost instead included in the national return; that the Lib Dems used an election battlebus to transport activists to constituencies which was not included in the candidates» returns; and that the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, «used a helicopter to campaign for SNP candidates in 12 target constituencies — at a cost of # 35,000».

Labour activists / Councillors of my acquaintance have such a long standing and deep seated antipathy for the SNP they find it difficult to believe voters have switched.