You write that you are for independence. What other party can you see making that happen before Westminster’s Internal Market Bill attempts to make it entirely impossible.
Sometimes you have to get behind a movement to attain an end — once the end is attained, work within the new conditions to make it thrive. Churchill was recognised and lauded as the man to get UK thru WW2 — the post-war election he was voted out.
The electorate wanted a new party to control the new vision. Step One is achieving independence. Step Two is an entire realignment of the Scottish Political Landscape.
There will always be a right-of-centre group, but Scotland’s natural Social Democratic values can be fully expressed.
Westminster MPs return to fight for a place at Holyrood. Scottish Labour can revert to its traditional values once again free from London monetarism, and once again be attractive to its traditional voters. Jackie Baillie can serve in a party with true Scottish interests at heart. The SNP will fracture into two (or more) parties.
Perhaps current political divisions will melt and find politicians coming together in new groups of shared interest.
Who knows the potential? However, without Step One there is no Step Two. Instead it’s a continuation of Westminster values where social democracy (Labour & Lib Dems) is becoming more and more an irrelevance — Hartlepool voting Tory, first time in its electoral history not returning Labour. Is that what we’re destined to be a part of if we cannot pull together and make Step One happen?
At the stage it shouldn’t be about narrow squabbling over particular political leaders or political events, it should be about a vision of the future for our children and grand children. We owe them that.