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During the party's 2007 campaign, they received a £500,000 donation by millionaire businessman Brian Souter. Souter is known for hating homosexual people, posing with scantly clothed young girls and describing his northern English customers as "the beer-drinking, chip-eating, council house-dwelling, old Labour-voting masses".

During the party's 2007 campaign, they received a £500,000 donation by millionaire businessman Brian Souter. Souter is known for hating homosexual people, posing with scantly clothed young girls and describing his northern English customers as "the beer-drinking, chip-eating, council house-dwelling, old Labour-voting masses".

=== Failed independence campaign and Sturgeon regime (2014 - 2023) ===

=== Failure of independence campaign and rise of the Sturgeon regime (2014 - 2023) ===

[[Nicola Sturgeon]] became party leader and First Minister in 2014 following the resignation of Alex Salmond in 2014 in the wake of the pro-"independence" ''Yes Scotland'' campaign being unsuccessful the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Her premiership has been blatantly authoritarian, with commentators describing a merging of state and party similar to previous totalitarian regimes such as [[Hitler]]'s Germany or [[Stalin]]'s [[USSR]].<ref name="ts21" />

[[Nicola Sturgeon]] became party leader and First Minister in 2014 following the resignation of Alex Salmond in 2014 in the wake of the pro-"independence" ''Yes Scotland'' campaign being unsuccessful the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Her premiership has been blatantly authoritarian, with commentators describing a merging of state and party similar to previous totalitarian regimes such as [[Hitler]]'s Germany or [[Stalin]]'s [[USSR]].<ref name="ts21" />