Yet it is difficult to see how it could be better presented than it was by Euro-MP Winnie Ewing in her presidential address at last year's conference.
They say a week is a long time in politics but Madam Ecosse's now celebrated "we are haunted by the ghost of our European Past" speech is as topical today as it was almost 52 weeks ago.
Judge for yourself...here are some of the highlights:
Thus we were far aheado of the very recent idea of Eurocitizenship.
The first Act of King Robert the Bruce involved joining the Hanseatic League and Scotland traded with European countries from every port.
In 1707 Scotland and England made a treaty.
In this bargain we got England and lost Europe.
Of course the bargain was not made by the people - there was no universal suffrage - but by noble houses - traitors within the gate.
Honourable voices (Belhaven and Fletcher) spoke eloquently:"I see an ancient nation stripped of her rights and privileges even of her very name."
The treaty was to create a new nationality - Britishness.
But it is no easier to create a new nationality than it is to destroy one.
Our sense of being Scottish and European was to be subsumed in the pride of being British; in pride of conquest and of Empire.
As Benjamin Franklyn summed it up so well: "England you have caught Scotland fast and have treated her with the upmost contumely Our European past lies there in our consciousness waiting for its time to come."
All three unionist parties seek to put the label of poverty on Scotland. Their system of accounting is transparently dishonest. They put identifiable expenditure on one side but fail to put revenue from taxes on the other side. New constitutional situations in democratic societies lead to vast infusion sof investment. Money would pour in. New iniatives would flourish and the talents of our people would be released. Do you remember the threats? 'Don't vote SNP or companies will close?'
A majority voted unionist and companies closed and are still closing. Apart from those economic measurements people live in fear of not getting a job or losing the job they have. We could with our wealth create a just society for all our citizens. Surely, in an independent Scotland we would not allow the same degree of sleaze and greed.
Surely Scottish MPs would not expect cash for questions?
Surely we would not allow 5000 Quangos to continue to drain power away from our local authorities.
Surely in our Scotland, parties would not fight elections with mendacious manifestos; because in Scotland our peoples prefer a bit less affluence for much less public squalor.
Surely we would not allow such enormous parts of our land to be in the hands of absentee landlords.
Scotland's partnership with England means we are smeared with a rottenness of deep selfish interest from the South.
Our Steel industry was sold out.
The Euro Commission are on record as stating that if Scotland had been a Member State, Ravenscraig would not have been closed.
Our fishing industry has been sold out to Spain.
We are bound in a partnership which has opted out from Euro Social Policy.
The UK is a Banana Monarchy where our cheap labour is meant to attract industry...but which still seems to prefer Ireland!
We have to think of ourselves as a European Member State and be ready to put forward a European agenda.
Our young people have no difficulty, they know they are Europeans. Europe is not their threat but their opportunity.
That is what the SNP needs most.
Meanwhile - Watch this space, for we will be bringing you the highlights and the big decisions in Highlander's special Conference Coverage - reports and round-ups direct from Eden Court, Inverness.
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