Greens hail growing support for an independent Scottish republic | Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie has welcomed a new poll that has shown 59% support for an independent Scottish republic: “Monarchy has no place in a democratic Scotland”

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  1. 🎄 An early Christmas present from Norstat

    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This is the highest support for an independent Scottish republic has ever polled, with any pollster.

    🥀 It comes a week after another poll found that support for independence had increased to 54%, following Keir Starmer’s disastrous first few months as prime minister.

    💛 The poll also found that SNP/Greens are on course for a pro-independence majority in 2026.

  2. Why do people care what this irritating college dropout has to say?

  3. It’s the only way to secure our future.

    Getting England to let go will be difficult.

  4. I’m a(n?) SNP -> Green voter, but honestly I wish they would do a little bit _less_ of this sort of thing. One of the things that the right has going for it is that they hold the line on their important issues, and do a reasonable job of keeping the fringe stuff out of line (well, until recently at least. Reform is a great example of the Tories doing a good job of keeping themselves on point until they ate their lunch).

    Instead, I’m forced to associate with every fringe view that the parties that align with me decide to adopt, and it means that the parties are held to ransom by these things. I support so many of the things that the Scottish Greens do, and absolutely admire their principles on so many things, but there’s just too much baggage along with it for me to be vocal about it.

  6. > “The future that I want for Scotland is as an independent republic where power rests with the people rather than being passed down like a family heirloom”

    Yeah, about that. Do you know the number of MSPs that are married or related to other MSPs ? to councillors ? to other elected politicians like MPs ? There’s plenty of them, across most major parties. One of them even came out with the line “I was born into this Party”, when faced with discipline for going against policy.

    Since devolution, there’s been a fairly substantial move to create a political aristocracy, where power is indeed hereditary amongst a relative handful of families. And people seem just fine with that.

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