Are the old SNP fault lines cracking open again?

ALL eyes are on Labour with a suggestion of a breakaway from the hard Left of leader Jeremy Corbyn, but has no one seen the old fault lines cracking open in the SNP? The Nationalists are so afraid of a split between the gradualists who want to sleepwalk us into independence and the hardliners who want a breakaway now, that they won’t even discuss their Growth Commission at the SNP conference. Paul Conroy, Glasgow. WHAT is the SNP afraid of by not debating its own Growth Commission report at conference? T. Sanderson, Glasgow. THE SNP’s Growth Commission report was dressed up as though it was an independent assessment of how we would cope with independence. In fact, it was an SNP affair and not a document published by the Scottish Government. We were told it was going to be warts-and-all as the SNP was really serious this time. It was going to look at all the unanswered questions from 2014 and give it to us straight. There was going to be a national conversation about it and it was going to fire up the independence debate. And now the SNP won’t even discuss it at its own conference! With all their shouting and marching after defeat in 2014, the Yes mob didn’t notice that it’s over and even the SNP, the supposed cheerleader of independence, is running scared. Nicola Sturgeon has no remit to call for Indyref 2 and even if she did, she would lose again. CHRIS LOGAN, edinburgh.