Billy Wolfe:
I was a friend of Billy's in the later days of his involvement with the SNP, despite my Catholic background.
I found him to be honestly passionate about Scottish Independence and I got the impression that he was more in favour of it for Scotland than for himself, than he had been in the late 70s early 80s.
This seemed to be due to the fact that he was not going to be on the gravy train now, so where it stopped was largely academic to him.
He was a great font of knowledge on the processes and constitution of the SNP, as well as really good laugh when telling tales of how he had watched people elbow each other out of the way to the slippery pole.
Mostly, what I would say in response to digging up Billy's objection to the Papal visit, has been said on pprune many times before.
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.