Lord alone knows what agricultural or animal welfare arguments the SNP were planning to deploy had the 90-minute hunting debate actually taken place. Were they really going to suggest that chasing a fox to a gun with two dogs is moral, but doing exactly the same with three or more dogs isn’t? The reality is that those in the SNP do not know what they think about the nitty gritty of hunting arguments. And that’s because they really don’t care. As far as they are concerned there is nothing moral about this fight; for them it is a political scrap pure and simple. It is one they deserve to lose, and one in which, happily, they might get more than they bargained for.