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Former SNP deputy leader Jim Sillars has accused the First Minister of leaving the independence movement “stranded” and at risk of splintering as a new Alliance for Independence party is being set up in a bid to win regional list seats in next year’s Holyrood election.

Oh shut up... Ms Sturgeon has a pandemic on her hands. If the SNP is to splinter so readily then perhaps they are not qualified or capable of taking a nation to independence.

Mark Flett The Tories, Unionists and Brit Nats have struggled to convince anyone that the UK Government is anything other than the shambles that they are, and Scotland, FM, Scotgov have outperformed them. So here we have a change of tactic... and it is clever in the extreme.

Douglas Martin

Just like the last time. And the time before. And so on.

Peter Dunford Jim Sillars, if I can remember, was respected by the Scottish people when he was in Holyrood, unlike the First Minister. She would do well to listen to someone with experience, but will she? No! Of course the FM will detest any one offering support to Salmond.

Anne Mackie Wee Eck will be waiting to pounce. I never liked him, but as a politician he could eat Nicola!

Robert Baird

There’s an independence movement? Who knew?

Jimi Marshall

Popcorn in, let the show begin.

Pauline Downie So much talk about independence. But not a single word about how to resolve the outstanding intractable problems that caused it to fail in 2014. Not a word to excuse the lie that