Scotland's Democrats vs Dodgy Coalitions

The UK Supreme Court stood up for democracy last week 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. 


But Nicola Sturgeon is not keen on listening to public opinion on these issues - not through a referendum or even asking a question on the back of Scotland's census which the Scottish Government managed to screw up completely of course.

Yet we hear non-stop from Team Sturgeon about Indyref2 even though all the opinion polls say Scots voters are set firmly against another referendum at this stage - not least because it would be a stitched-up affair between the SNP and Greens.

So what price democracy and the 'will of the people' under Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP?




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