A PRO-INDEPENDENCE voter's dilemma over which political party to join has sparked a cake-based bidding war involving some of Scotland's most senior politicians.

 

Katie McGarvey this morning revealed on Twitter that she was considering joining a party ahead of next year's Holyrood elections, but was torn between the SNP and the Greens. "Heart says Green, head says SNP" she wrote, before asking her 5,000 followers for help with her big decision.

Within minutes, Nicola Sturgeon made her pitch, with the First Minister saying: "I accept I might be a bit biased...but I hope I can persuade you to make it @theSNP."

Not one to take the first offer on the table, Ms McGarvey asked Green co-convenor Patrick Harvie whether he had anything to say. "I'm easily bribed," she added.

"I've been known to bake a cake for branch meetings. Would that do?" the long-serving MSP said. Supporters then supplied photographic evidence to back up Mr Harvie's claims.

"I don't think @theSNP can compete with cake. Nothing can compete with cake," Ms McGarvie said.

It led the First Minister to accuse Mr Harvie of a "low blow", saying he had launched an underhand bid at "striking at the heart of my inability to bake cakes".

Ms McGarvey said the episode had left her even more torn over who to join, before Kezia Dugdale confused matters further by entering the fray with an unlikely bid to pinch her for Scottish Labour.

"I'm just going to leave this here..." the favourite to become her party's leader wrote, alongside a picture of an impressive home made strawberry and chocolate effort.

An unimpressed First Minister responded: "Just so typical of opposition...let them eat cake!! Kate, @theSNP will never treat you that way."