independence and hit out at parts of the Government’s “domestic agenda”, such as reforms making it easier to change gender. He also said he had joined Alex Salmond ’s rival pro-independence Alba party.
An SNP spokesperson said: "David Baird lives in a parallel universe. A matter of weeks ago the SNP won a historic fourth straight term at Holyrood and secured more votes than any party in the history of devolution."Baird, a North Lanarkshire councillor in Mossend and Holytown, told the Record he joined the SNP 39 years ago when he was 16.However, he said he had left for Alba last week after claiming the SNP had become “intolerant”.He said the SNP had become like a famous scene in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which actor Donald.
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