"In all honesty they are just as bad as the rest of them"
This will definitely be their downfall. It's very much getting to see behind the curtain & seeing all the smoke & mirrors being deployed. It is quite something how the collective discipline has absolutely crumbled. And seeing how cynically they use certain issues for political gain.
The DR story, if true, does highlight the hypocrisy & paper thin claims of moral righteousness they've been pushing over the Salmond claims. If they've got a serving MP (or 2) behaving inappropriately, surely all the frantic activity from 2017 onwards had them well prepared on how to handle any complaints? Wasn't that the whole point of a rushed process? And senior SNP office holders put in quite a shift at the time of the 2017/2018 revelations so of all the parties, they'd be well placed to deal with complaints by now. 🤨
That's the problem with setting yourself up as one thing, when it's not accurate. If there had been genuine desire to improve reporting & investigation processes for the sake of complainants (knowing the power disparity involved) then anything that comes up would be easily handled because they'd spent so much effort improving their internal systems & would be able to rattle off a response that would demonstrate how seriously they took matters etc.
This, as with the Salmond stuff, demonstrates the willingness to still politicise & weaponise a process that should be impartial & should allow complainants the means to address work place harassment without fear of the impact on their livelihood. Because if they're only interested in doing that when it's politically expedient for them to do so, that's still a huge problem.
This is likely to get worse over the coming weeks with the election. There's probably so many stories being sat on, ready for deployment at the point it's going to be most damaging. And the SNP/Sturgeon really only have themselves to blame.