Scotland's Democrats vs Dodgy Coalitions
The UK Supreme Court stood up for democracy yesterday because its intervention in upholding the law has stopped Nicola Sturgeon from imposing a stitched-up referendum - regardless of wider public opinion.
Sturgeon and Harvie would have used a simple majority at Holyrood and a dodgy SNP/Green coalition to get their way and decide a whole range of vital issues cynically in their favour.
For example, the rules and questions (Remain/Leave vs Yes/No), should there be one vote or two (a la Brexit), is 50% plus one vote enough on such a big issue - and what precisely would a Leave vote mean for currency, pensions etc etc.
The point is that democracy in Scotland is not what Nicola Sturgeon and her new chum Patrick Harvie say it is - and any further constitutional referendums ought to command cross party support as they did in 2014.
Truth is the SNP are only in favour of a wider participative democracy and referendums when it suits their narrow purpose - otherwise we'd be having a Scottish referendum on Sturgeons' barmy 'Self-ID bill which the vast majority of Scots oppose, of course.
Scotland - What Price Democracy? (November 14, 2022)
All the opinion polls say that a big majority of Scots reject Self-ID and the absurd notion that grown assed men should be allowed just to declare themselves as women.
The same is true of assisted dying - the settled will of Scotland appears to be that people deserve a choice towards the end of their lives, so long as there are safeguards in place to protect the vulnerable.
