Corbyn’s left-wing party set to back Holyrood’s right to unilaterally call independence referendum

by 1DarkStarryNight

15 comments

  1. An interesting development for Scottish politics. Unlikely to affect the Hollyrood election much but could take significant votes away from SNP at a Westminster election

  2. It’s funny that even Thatcher agreed with this.

    While you don’t need to agree with independence itself I find it difficult to get my head around why someone wouldn’t want Scotland to have the right to choose, other than forcing them to stay.

  3. I’ll believe that when I hear them say it publicly. Corbyn has stated he’s against Scottish Independence. It would be great to hear he’s changed his position, but I’d have to hear it from the horses mouth.

  4. Corbyns handler (Putin) has decided that his previously held belief that Scotland doesn’t have a right to independence isn’t conducive to the overall strategy of destabilising Europe.

  5. I’ll be honest, this isn’t worth the absolute Nightmare we would have with Corbyn at the helm on foreign policy, without mentioning that once again an independence vote would come down to the wire.

    Hopefully people don’t follow Reforms playbook and vote for this out of just protest

  6. I mean, I still want independence and governance from a Scottish-based party—so, I’ll vote SNP for our election.

    This is pushing to vote Corbyn for the UK election.

  7. That’s nice, but I doubt this party will get more than a few seats in the next GE. That’s just inevitable in our current system.

  8. Wonder if they will run candidates for the next elections in Scotland and Wales?

  9. Corbyn wants to give Scotland the right to choose but was anti brexit. Fucking idiot.

  10. They can call what they want but the Scottish High Court have already declared such a referendum illegal.

  11. Telling ya they have just been waiting for the right moment. I was thinking about this new party and how it could be just what we need across the whole fo the UK but I can’t vote for a party who doesn’t support independence or at least the right to make the choice, he knows with the state o the SNP just now this is gold in Scotland

  12. We should have as many single issue referendum as we want until we get the decision I want after that we shouldn’t have anymore because it would just create too much uncertainty.

  13. Another pro indy party would be good.

    For Unionism.

    One of the biggest advantages the snp has is its concentration of the nationalist vote.

    It gives them disproportionate power.

  14. Good and correct.

    There is no moral or democratic reason to forever deny Scotland another chance to have its say on whether it stays in the union or not.

    Increasingly the default Unionist position is to deny all referenda forever and it undermines the very idea that the union is working in our best interests. If you’re so sure that the Union is the best for us, why lock off all means by which we might decide on whether to stay or not?

    This is an abusive situation Scotland is stuck in.

  15. This probably isn’t true, lot of people just throwing shit into the wind. Corbyn’s even backtracked on starting a new party, even this headline says ‘project’.

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