 | 'I can well remember, asking a staunch Conservative friend after the elections of 1974, who his new MP was, to which he replied, with a smile of clear delight and satisfaction, 'ItŐs Margaret Bain, actually.' Ian Goldie in the Scots Independent, 7 th April 2006. |  |
Margaret Ewing was such a feature of the Scottish National Party that she seemed almost permanent. I have one or two little personal memories that I would like to share.
My friend Andrew Kerr was on the phone the other day to point out that it was his father, the late Anthony J C Kerr, who, when he was a teacher at Biggar High School in the 1960s, had Margaret as a pupil and actually gave her and many others replied paid postcards about the Scottish National Party.
I can well remember, asking a staunch Conservative friend after the elections of 1974, who his new MP was, to which he replied, with a smile of clear delight and satisfaction, 'ItŐs Margaret Bain, actually.'
Shortly after that I arranged for Margaret to show my parents round the House of Commons and they were charmed by her obvious decency and enthusiasm.
My strongest recollection of Margaret was just at the end of one annual conference in Rothesay when she and a few others were sitting around relaxing and they began to sing some Scottish folk songs and songs of independence. I was astonished at her stamina and at the number of those songs that she knew, and at the stamina of that frail-looking girl.
The Scottish National Party has indeed lost a great figure.
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