Labour got a lot of things dreadfully wrong in the UK election, but there was one thing they did right: they ruled out cooperation with the SNP on the principle that you can't have a secessionist movement involved in governing the country they want to destroy.
Lots and lots of people scoffed at that stance, saying that post-referendum the SNP were no longer a secessionist threat; instead they were a progressive force.
I have detailed elsewhere the facts demonstrating that the SNP's record is, in fact, anything but progressive.
And now today brings the completely unsurprising news that the secessionist genie isn't going back into the bottle:
Alex Salmond hails ‘staging post to independence’
The SNP’s landslide of Scottish seats in the UK general election is a “staging post” on the road to independence, Alex Salmond said yesterday.
http://www.scotsman.com/...
Of course Salmond is the EX leader of the party. However, he, and his enthusiasm for secession, are going to be leading the new SNP cohort in Westminster, while Sturgeon is safely far away in Holyrood. Not that there is a huge amount of difference between them on this point, anyway: Sturgeon began talking about rerunning that "once in a generation" referendum
almost immediately upon taking up her new office.