Sturgeon Backtracking Over Settled Will Strategy
Alister Jack @ScotSecofState has previously suggested there should be no #indyref2 for at least 25 years
— Glenn Campbell (@GlennBBC) August 27, 2021
Here he suggests a different test - clear and sustained support for another referendum in opinion polls https://t.co/YDQuh3eCc1
Nicola Sturgeon nows say otherwise, but the suggestion of a 'settled will' approach to Scottish independence came originally from the SNP leadership - and here's a 2015 article from The Scotsman to prove the point.
SNP: 60% support needed before next independence referendum
The SNP will not seek another Scottish independence referendum until polls consistently show more than 60% of the public would vote to leave the UK, it has been claimed.
Sunday, 18th October 2015
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been playing down the prospect of an imminent re-run of last year’s ballot - which saw a 55%-45% victory for the unionists.
She has suggested that a new vote could be triggered if the coming in/out referendum sees Britain exit the EU in defiance of Scottish wishes.
But senior SNP sources are said to have told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Pienaar’s Politics that they have also set a “test” of polls showing at least 60% support for independence for more than a year.
British Polling Council president Professor John Curtice said he agreed that such a level of sustained support would be required to ensure Scotland voted to leave.
“I think one of the things that’s forgotten about the referendum last year is that there had never previously been a period in which the opinion polls had consistently pointed to a majority in favour of yes,” he told the programme.
Some nationalist supporters including Nicola Sturgeon now seem to be distancing themselves from this strategy, but it seems entirely reasonable given that it take a two-thirds majority just to make changes to the SNP's constitution.
Sturgeon claims Scottish Secretary 'making up constitutional rules' over referendum https://t.co/YVYmlv1nij
— Tom Gordon (@HTScotPol) August 27, 2021