Wow, the “article” was barely longer than the headline.
>POLITICAL parties should be pushed to include the abolition of devolved powers in their General Election manifesto to “100% guarantee” the Union, anti-independence campaigners have said.
Who are these campaigners? Using quotation marks around *2 words* (1 really) **and** not sourcing the quote to begin with? How disingenuous is The National trying to be?
Edit: Seems my adblock was blocking the paywall.
At every Scottish tory conference, a packed side room, led by the likes of Murdo Fraser, talk about how to abolish Scot devolution.
I’ve personally met Labour councillors and a couple of list named MSPs who started out super enthusiastic about devolution thinking it would be an eternal Labour run mayoral type office but are now fully fledged unionists who consider it a mistake and either has to be curtailed or scrapped altogether.
With the use of section 35’s and the determination to shrink or sideline Holyrood decisions, and the silence or its nod and wink approval by more and more Labour MPs and MSPs, it is now a very open secret that devolution has opened a Pandoras box of problems for London rule.
One voice saying it out loud masks the consent of a huge number of pro union politicians who only mutter it in the right ears.
Humza daring to speak to foreigners, the gender act, the football offences act, P1 testing, the named person scheme and more, all attacked by hysteria and lies and traducement simply because it was the SNP and Scotland having progression and individuality from the status quo that sees its power being drained at the border.
It’s an opinion I suppose. I doubt it’ll see many takers, devolution is popular across the board.
Nationalists want to abolish Holyrood too though? And replace with a full independent Parliament.
You only have to pop over to X (Twitter) and comment enough to get the streams of Unionist abuse, it’s not about labour wrestling control over Holyrood, it’s not about the Tories who frankly don’t really engage with the Scottish Government, It’s all about shutting down the Parliament and banishing the SNP. I do hope the SNP can get firing on all cylinders for the Scottish elections as a Labour victory will only lead to an erosion of devolved power.
So what? People who have an opinion think about pushing this opinion in an election. Hardly news.
Devolution is pretty popular. Is The National trying to push to its hard-of-thinking “readers” that this means the Scottish Parliament is going to disappear next year?
A real detailed analysis that I’ve come to expect from the national.
Narrator: *The parties didn’t.*
whats the issue here?
nationalists want to break up the union.
hard unionists want to abolish devolution
most unionists are on a scale of “carry on as we are” to “more devolution”.
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in any case, in a democracy, you put your position and ask people to vote for you. if we are going to attack people for doing what you do in a functioning democracy, I feel we have bigger issues.
You dont have to agree with them, you can vote for someone else, but this is just attacking a perfectly valid political position, even if you disagree with it (as I do).
This is a very fringe opinion and none of the serious, mainstream unionist outfits would ever publicly support it.
But be thankful that you have devolution. As I’ve said before, there are quite a few other places in the world where the ‘real’ leader would have soldiers in Holyrood while the SNP cabinet are all jailed and the party is disbanded and proscribed. Humza Yousaf would get the Navalny treatment and would occasionally appear on a webcam from an undisclosed place of detention.
The UK is not like that, and may God never make it so.
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Wow, the “article” was barely longer than the headline.
>POLITICAL parties should be pushed to include the abolition of devolved powers in their General Election manifesto to “100% guarantee” the Union, anti-independence campaigners have said.
Who are these campaigners? Using quotation marks around *2 words* (1 really) **and** not sourcing the quote to begin with? How disingenuous is The National trying to be?
Edit: Seems my adblock was blocking the paywall.
At every Scottish tory conference, a packed side room, led by the likes of Murdo Fraser, talk about how to abolish Scot devolution.
I’ve personally met Labour councillors and a couple of list named MSPs who started out super enthusiastic about devolution thinking it would be an eternal Labour run mayoral type office but are now fully fledged unionists who consider it a mistake and either has to be curtailed or scrapped altogether.
With the use of section 35’s and the determination to shrink or sideline Holyrood decisions, and the silence or its nod and wink approval by more and more Labour MPs and MSPs, it is now a very open secret that devolution has opened a Pandoras box of problems for London rule.
One voice saying it out loud masks the consent of a huge number of pro union politicians who only mutter it in the right ears.
Humza daring to speak to foreigners, the gender act, the football offences act, P1 testing, the named person scheme and more, all attacked by hysteria and lies and traducement simply because it was the SNP and Scotland having progression and individuality from the status quo that sees its power being drained at the border.
It’s an opinion I suppose. I doubt it’ll see many takers, devolution is popular across the board.
Nationalists want to abolish Holyrood too though? And replace with a full independent Parliament.
You only have to pop over to X (Twitter) and comment enough to get the streams of Unionist abuse, it’s not about labour wrestling control over Holyrood, it’s not about the Tories who frankly don’t really engage with the Scottish Government, It’s all about shutting down the Parliament and banishing the SNP. I do hope the SNP can get firing on all cylinders for the Scottish elections as a Labour victory will only lead to an erosion of devolved power.
So what? People who have an opinion think about pushing this opinion in an election. Hardly news.
Devolution is pretty popular. Is The National trying to push to its hard-of-thinking “readers” that this means the Scottish Parliament is going to disappear next year?
A real detailed analysis that I’ve come to expect from the national.
Narrator: *The parties didn’t.*
whats the issue here?
nationalists want to break up the union.
hard unionists want to abolish devolution
most unionists are on a scale of “carry on as we are” to “more devolution”.
​
in any case, in a democracy, you put your position and ask people to vote for you. if we are going to attack people for doing what you do in a functioning democracy, I feel we have bigger issues.
You dont have to agree with them, you can vote for someone else, but this is just attacking a perfectly valid political position, even if you disagree with it (as I do).
This is a very fringe opinion and none of the serious, mainstream unionist outfits would ever publicly support it.
But be thankful that you have devolution. As I’ve said before, there are quite a few other places in the world where the ‘real’ leader would have soldiers in Holyrood while the SNP cabinet are all jailed and the party is disbanded and proscribed. Humza Yousaf would get the Navalny treatment and would occasionally appear on a webcam from an undisclosed place of detention.
The UK is not like that, and may God never make it so.