peacefulpete I left the SNP because it has gone soft on independence, the leader is a liar who should have been removed from office, and they are increasingly incompetent. I don’t agree with their self-certification policy for trans people either, but for me that is a minor issue. Scottish independence is much bigger than one party. As I said, there are many Labour voters who support independence too.
Of course you are correct that the SNP has evolved over the decades. Nowadays it is left-centre party, to the left of other mainstream parties in the UK. Anti-SNP partisans try to imply that SNP don’t have a left-centre past, and that they are not entirely peaceful by distorting the actions of some in the SNP nearly a century ago. The only people that find these sorts of slurs relevant are extreme unionists largely talking to themselves. It has no legitimate place in the conversation about the majority of Scots who now want the country to be independent. It’s a desperate attempt to deflect from the basic issue of democracy - that a majority vote for independence should be respected.