Tuesday, May 26, 2026

As "Self-determination Tuesday" dawns, is Andy Maciver right to say independence is now closer than it was on the day before the 2014 indyref?


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11 comments:

  1. I get a cold call and an email from an Opinion Pollster that I have never heard of a mere day after Murrell pleads guilty. Talk about the rancid stink of a long dead fish. The Sassanachs are at it.

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  2. Only boiled food is permissible in Australia.

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  3. Ok, the vote is in. So when will we know that it isn't self-deferential Tuesday?

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  4. I watched most of the speeches in Holyrood today. Rachael Hamilton's was the worst I think I've ever seen. The total negativity from the Tories and Labour was excruciating. Only to be expected, I suppose.

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  5. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y77gp9elyo

    Hi

    Any comment on the graph bbc scotland are using in these articles? I thought most polls showed yes ahead which this does show but what are they basing the line actually on? Surely there hasn't heen a flurry of no votes recently bringing it back to no?

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    1. It looks like they're including one recent poll that we didn't previously know about. (Or rather we knew about the poll but not that it had independence results.)

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    2. Okay thanks, I didn't know about that poll either.

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  6. Some Downing Street oik saying "The UK Government does not support independence or another referendum." is not the same as a formal denial by Westminster of the right to self-determination, and I presume the first further step is to force any such denial to be made in the House of Commons where it goes on the record (Hansard).

    There would of course then be further steps in an escalatory progression - not falling short of the ultimate sanction.

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    1. We'll see, but as usual it's the activists doing all the strategizing.

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    2. What is meant by the “ultimate sanction”?

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