Sturgeon’s independence dreams in tatters as Galloway predicts Salmond will break up SNP

Alex Salmond to launch a break-away party claims Galloway

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Nicola Sturgeon’s hopes of leading an independent Scotland are over, according to George Galloway. The former UK MP told RT that the controversy surrounding the Alex Salmond inquiry may well have ended the SNP’s chance to bring independence to Scotland. Mr Galloway went onto predict that the SNP would fail to win a majority at the May elections.

He also suggested that Alex Salmond could even lead a break-away independence party as the Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP “withers on the vine”.

The former UK MP pointed out that independence was surging ahead in the polls – before this week.

He said: “Support for independence is now down to 52 percent against 48 percent, but only if you don’t include the ‘don’t knows’.

“And the ‘don’t knows’ broke 9 to 1 against independence at the last referendum.”

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Mr Galloway continued: “The SNP have lost a third of their support according to today’s polls, including 20 percent of their own voters.

“The SNP will not now win a majority in the elections in May, and their independence project is farther away than it ever has been since the referendum in 2014.

When the RT UK host asked if this ordeal could “tear the SNP apart,” Mr Halloway responded: “Yes I think you might see two SNPs emerge out of all this.

“Alex Salmond is so superior to those who have taken over from him. He was in very fine form today.

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“I suspect we may have an Alex Salmond Independence Party emerging out of all this while the Nicola Sturgeon SNP might well wither on the vine.

“In the immediate future, the prospects of an independence referendum are laughable.

“And the possibility of an SNP majority in the elections in just 80 days time is equally unlikely.”

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Mr Galloway added: “The cause that Salmond cares for will endure – there will always be people in Scotland who want independence – but the SNP as the vehicle for it died today.”

Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross echoed this, saying that Nicola Sturgeon could be gone “within weeks”.

A recent Ipsos Mori for STV found Nicola Sturgeon’s popularity had dropped 16 points amid the ongoing SNP civil war over Alex Salmond inquiry.

More than a third of those polled said that the row had made them think less favourably towards the SNP, including more than a fifth of those who voted for the party at the last general election.

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