22 July 2005

Is the SNP gerontocratically challenged?

The Herald reports on the candidates for the SNP Presidency:
"At 62, Ms Ullrich is the youngest of the contenders, but yesterday she stressed her political experience as part of a pitch to party members.In an apparent reference to the heydays of Mr Wolfe, 81, and Mr Henderson, 69, being long behind them, she said: "My last role was as chief whip [until 2003]. That means that I know the pressures that exist today. Every day spent in the Union is another day of lost opportunities for my beloved Scotland." "

At the risk of sounding ageist, and bearing in mind that bloggers who live in glass houses should not call kettles black, is there no suitable candidate a little younger?

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