Negotiating the winding slopes of Dundee Law with the SNP’s 50-foot-long battle bus last Saturday will prove a breeze compared to their promise to deliver another independence referendum.

There’s more chance of the bus winning the Le Mans 24-hour race than them fulfilling their pledge.

John Swinney’s promise of another referendum journey is aimed solely at those folk whose only destination in life is an independent Scotland but that battle is lost before a wheel turns.

Like his proposal to cap bus fares, the road to another referendum has little mileage with most voters, who face much more pressing issues.

The SNP may have driven the bus out of the garage but the campaign it’s helping to launch isn’t roadworthy for the mythical journey ahead, in which they claim independence is close.

‘Myriad of SNP failures’

Urging voters not yet registered to vote to do so, Mr Swinney claimed on X: “We are within touching distance of an SNP majority and........

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