SNP wants one thing

IT will come as no surprise that the wave of SNP candidates hoping to descend on Westminster remains utterly obsessed with breaking up the United Kingdom.

However, the language used only months after more than two million Scots rejected separation is jarring.

One candidate predicts the UK’s economy will implode and Scotland will become independent; another talks of twisting Westminster’s arm to deliver another vote; a third insists he would never accept anything l ess t han independence. Such comments should act as a wakeup call for nicola Sturgeon and voters.

The First Minister has promised to resist calls from her own party to hold an early referendum. crucially, she will know the country as a whole is still recovering from a long and bitter two-year campaign and would not welcome a rerun. But the SNP has more than quadrupled in size to more than 100,000 members since the no vote and there would be considerable anger if the 2016 Holyrood manifesto contained no mention of a second vote.

That is why voters should not be fooled by the First Minister’s claim that this General election is not about independence. every nationalist MP sent to Westminster will go there with one overriding aim – to break up Britain. THE language may have been less than prime ministerial. But there can be no doubting David cameron’s passion as he warned that Labour’s tax and spending plans would be disastrous for people’s lives, urging voters to tell Mr Miliband to ‘stick them where the sun don’t shine’. it’s as if he is just waking up to the true scale of Labour’s threat – with or without its allies in the hard-Left SNP – to everything this country has achieved. Let’s hope it’s not too late. in Britain’s hour of need, nepalese Gurkhas have rallied again and again to our aid. Today, after the catastrophic earthquake, it is their country that needs our help. The Mail knows those who can afford it will donate generously to relief appeals. in the true spirit of voluntary giving, we never forget our friends.