Thread by @BingoDemagogue

@MhairiHunter I'd argue lying about there being EU legal advice in 2014, then using our money to cover up the lie, then surpressing the committee findings was controversial.

@MhairiHunter Selecting a small subset of years of figures to base the whitepaper"s hopelessly optimistic economic model on; that was controversial.

@MhairiHunter Having two nuclear reactors in Scotland, but no processing or storage for the waste - all done in England, and glossing over this when it would cost billions and be dangerous for centuries in an independent Scotland: that's controversial

@MhairiHunter Nicola Sturgeon claiming we could join the EU using the pound, when it makes it impossible to close chapter 17 of the EU acquis, on monetary policy; that was controversial.

@MhairiHunter Making election promises to scrap council tax and cancel student debt, then not delivering them; that's controversial.

@MhairiHunter Making an uncosted £8 billion pound promise to double pensions, based on a flawed comparative analysis; that's controversial.

@MhairiHunter Using LSE analysis that Brexit harms trade to argue for independence, when the LSE analysis goes on to say independence would be worse for trade; that's controversial.

@MhairiHunter Having different spokespeople insisting there are different currency policies to different audiences at different times; that's controversial

@MhairiHunter Complaining we are out of the Single Market, when 35 SNP MPs abstained on a vote that would have kept us in (it lost by 6) THAT'S controversial

@MhairiHunter Using Holyrood to freeze council tax with threats if funding cuts, when the democratic control of council tax legally sits with councils; that's controversial.

@MhairiHunter Derek Mckay still claiming thousands in expenses and salary after resigning in disgrace for sexting a teen; that's controversial!

@MhairiHunter Your Mismanagement of hundreds of millions of pounds of public money; that's controversial!

@MhairiHunter Your cutting drug support services in Glasgow, even being warned it would cause deaths, then using those deaths to try and score politicial points; that's controversial

@MhairiHunter Sending patients *who.had.tested.positive.* back into care homes to die and infect others *THAT* is controversial

@MhairiHunter Producing annual audited accounts to a high standard, then allowing ministers to lie to constituents on personal accounts by directly contradicting them for political reasons THAT'S controversial

@MhairiHunter Annually wearing a white rose in homage to founding member and SNP author Hugh MacDiarmid, author of 'plea for a Scottish Fascism' - that's controversial

@MhairiHunter Promising Scots we could have a currency union AND 'full control of Economic levers' when they are clearly mutually exclusive; that's controversial

@MhairiHunter Pressuring victims of sexual assault to keep quite by ambushing them, with the perpetrator present, THAT is controversial

@MhairiHunter I could go on Mhairi, there's a hundred other examples.
But we are in agreement; anyone who thinks the SNP didn't used to be controversial has a faulty memory.

It's a symptom...