tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post7186034392878644201..comments2024-03-28T13:00:53.517+00:00Comments on SCOT goes POP!: Scotland may not have declared independence yet - but it's just declared independence from the tyranny of "once in a generation"James Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01516007141763230886noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-6856172990385832102022-06-29T12:41:09.904+01:002022-06-29T12:41:09.904+01:00So here we go again....A plebiscitary election vic...So here we go again....A plebiscitary election victory in 2024, ignored by a UK government would give leverage to a referendum?? WTF!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-3065360394791823052022-06-29T02:21:57.452+01:002022-06-29T02:21:57.452+01:00The main advantage of using a UK GE is that we hav...The main advantage of using a UK GE is that we have the ability to benefit from the first past the post system so beloved of Westminster. In the words of Leon Brittan, no less, if at successive GE a majority of Scottish MPs are SNP then that is a legitimate basis for independences. <br /><br />Worh noting even Thatcher said “[a]s a nation, they [the Scots] have an undoubted right to national self-determination; thus far they have exercised that right by joining and remaining in the Union. Should they determine on independence no English party or politician would stand in their way”CaptainHaddocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-25649409992745646962022-06-28T17:31:24.425+01:002022-06-28T17:31:24.425+01:00So to be clear - it’s widely regarded that holding...So to be clear - it’s widely regarded that holding an election with a sole policy such as independence would in itself be a legal mandate to initiate independence?<br /><br />Is that how it works? “Only vote for us if you want independence?” And then if you get a majority you have a legal right to it? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-930120922627919768.post-48802083554046150742022-06-28T17:22:36.747+01:002022-06-28T17:22:36.747+01:00You write, "Incidentally, it's not totall...You write, "Incidentally, it's not totally impossible that an incoming Labour government in 2024 might refuse to accept an SNP victory as an outright independence mandate but would at that point finally accept that the issue has to be resolved, and offer a legal referendum as a compromise."<br />Absolutely not! The losers, with all their advantages, do not get the reward of a compensatory "IndyRef" and the opportunity of rewriting the rules, again.<br />That's one advantage of a plebiscitary, "one issue", election: everybody knows what they are voting for, and abstentions simply lower the threshold to be overcome.<br />I foresee all the pro-Independence parties forming an electoral coalition, and the Yoons would be insane not to do the same. What fun that would be to see, out in the open – giving us a de facto IndyRef. No need for a re-run when we win.<br />Robert Innesnoreply@blogger.com