Tuesday, March 28, 2017

It's official, it's decisive : an independence referendum is the will of the elected Scottish Parliament

Scottish Parliament vote on holding an independence referendum :

Yes 69 (53.9%)
No 59 (46.1%)

The BBC argued that the 55%-45% vote against independence in 2014 was "decisive", so as this is very much the same sort of margin, I look forward to the same word being used (as opposed to "narrow", or something along those lines).

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    1. No, no, no. Decisively narrow!

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    2. Or, as Ruthie would have it, Divisively Narrow!!

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  2. I must check the polls at the start of the 1st Ref to see what the gap was then.

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  3. The Express had "narrowly", and the Guardian laid stress on her "monority government. So, no bias there then!

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  4. "minority" Damn no edit function!

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  5. It will be interesting to see whether Aldo and his secretive friends manage to tie this up in the courts as previously claimed.
    Our parliament represents the democratic will of the people of Scotland who elected parties to Holyrood based on promises made in their respective manifestos.
    The SNP manifesto was quite clear on this matter and anyone seeking to thwart the democratic will of the Scottish electorate will first of all fail in the courts and secondly deservedly earn the condemnation of democrats in Scotland.

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  6. Bring it on, not all of us want another referendum in this ever so short generation later. I am sick of all the disgraceful nastiness towards the English. It would serve us all better if the SNP spent some time improving things in the country instead of playing politics.

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    1. Hmmm. In this case, "bring it on" seems to be code for "don't bring it on, block the democratic will of our elected parliament instead".

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    2. I am a member of the SNP. I am getting a tad bored with saying that I do not have any sort of disgraceful nastiness towards the English. Their institutions, however, suck.

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    3. Yes, my English friends generally loathe and despise the Tories, the Establishment and the Westminster Government at least as much as I do. After all, they're getting them full-on and unadulterated, with no Holyrood running some interference and trying to alleviate some of the misery.

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  7. Unfoetunately no to limited chance of this happening. Will need to see (a) no soft Brexit / access to single market being negotiated and, given the delay on timing (b) another decisive SNP triumph in the ensuing Scottish elections. Suspect (a) will happen; and - if not - (b) becomes much harder

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    1. Hard brexit required. Put the EU gravy train beaurocracy into the shitheap of history. All pensions for this lazy bunch of bastards should be cancelled.

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  8. Given the Greens, mainly, stand only on the regional list it's only looking at the combined vote tally there that the legitimacy of the vote can be judged. Between them the SNP and Greens have more votes than all other parties who won seats and their own combined total at constituency level. The two parties that voted for indyref2 represent a majority in a supposedly PR elected parliament.

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  9. So far only a monkey has commented on the Scottish parliament vote. Let's wait and see what the organ grinder says when the Section 30 order is OFFICIALLY submitted.

    Meanwhile let us give May and her wee ranty, shouty monkey a real bloody nose in May 17 election.

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  10. Two million voted tae remain in the Union. How decisive is that Nat sis.. ..But it was an MI6 fiddle!

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