This week’s revived row over the SNP’s finances is a case in point. In The Magnificent Seven, the bandit Calvera says contemptuously of the villagers he robs: “If God didn’t want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.” Granted, SNP chief executive Peter Murrell may not look much like Eli Wallach’s leering villain, but the accusation is that on his watch the same cynical attitude prevails, perhaps even the same disdain for the law. At issue is the fate of some £500,000 the SNP raised in the spring of 2017 for a second referendum campaign. .@ScotParl has backed #ScotRef and Tories say they'll block it.