Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ya kasance memba na Jam'iyyar Scottish National Party na ɗan gajeren lokaci a lokacin da yake matashi, amma jim kaɗan bayan kafa "West Highland Free Press", wanda aka ƙaddamar a watan Afrilu 1972, ya shiga Jam'iyyar Labour kuma ba da daɗewa ba aka gayyace shi ya tsaya a matsayin dan takarar a Ross da Cromarty wanda ya kalubalanci a watan Oktoba 1974. Ya tsaya a wasu mazabu biyu na Highlands da Islands - Inverness-shire da Western Isles - a cikin 1979 da 1983 bi da bi. Wani mai adawa da rarrabawa, wanda ya yi imanin zai yi aiki da rashin amfani ga yankunan da ke kusa da Scotland, a shekarar 1978 ya kasance shugaban kungiyar "Labour Vote No Campaign", wanda ya yi kira da a kada kuri'ar "a'a" a zaben raba gardama na Scotland na shekarar 1979.
a kan ko za a sami Majalisar Scottish. Wilson ya kasance wani ɓangare na ƙungiyar da aka sani da "Highland Luxemburgists" (wanda ya haɗa da Margaret Hope MacPherson da Allan Campbell McLean), waɗanda suka yi ƙoƙari kowace shekara a taron jam'iyyar don zartar da ƙuduri don dawo da crofts zuwa mallakar jama'a. Koyaya, jagorancin Jam'iyyar Labour sun yi watsi da kudurin kuma sun goyi bayan 'yancin crofters don siyan ƙasarsu.