Keep that gravy train rolling. Don’t hold us accountable. Jam tomorrow.
It’s already off the table – as per the 2022 ruling.
The SNP will have to seek cross chamber consensus both in Scotland and across the UK – as was secured in 2011 – on a future independence referendum for there to be any prospect of independence in the future. Whether Tommy Shepard and his fellow cronies happen to be MPs past 2024 is really neither here nor there in deciding this.
Independence depended on the SNP showing people like myself that despite the shitshow going on in Westminster they could run a competent administration. They ended up in a cul de sac of their own making with poor policies and own goal after own goal . While polling for Independence is still high it is far from the biggest issue people are going to vote on at this years election.
Sadly Labour looks like it will get a large majority in the next election, Scotland would need a hung parliament to negotiate for a referendum.
It’s.no just off the table, its away in a camper van for the bank holiday weekend.
There isn’t even a table.
His thesis boils down to this sentence:
> If the SNP lose the election in Scotland, the debate on independence stops.
This is more accurate than a lot of terminally online people realise. Some will say “oh but the Greens” or “well there’s also the SSP” or some philosophical statement like “the movement is bigger than one party”. But the point is that in the broad public imagination of people not addicted to following political news, SNP = independence.
Naturally SNP MPs have a selfish interest to be reelected but personally I think Sheppard is one of the more honest ones.
Much like Quebec independence was stone dead 10 years after their knife-edge vote, there is a chance that the same will be true here _for all practical purposes_ soon, and I take no pleasure in saying that.
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Keep that gravy train rolling. Don’t hold us accountable. Jam tomorrow.
It’s already off the table – as per the 2022 ruling.
The SNP will have to seek cross chamber consensus both in Scotland and across the UK – as was secured in 2011 – on a future independence referendum for there to be any prospect of independence in the future. Whether Tommy Shepard and his fellow cronies happen to be MPs past 2024 is really neither here nor there in deciding this.
Independence depended on the SNP showing people like myself that despite the shitshow going on in Westminster they could run a competent administration. They ended up in a cul de sac of their own making with poor policies and own goal after own goal . While polling for Independence is still high it is far from the biggest issue people are going to vote on at this years election.
Sadly Labour looks like it will get a large majority in the next election, Scotland would need a hung parliament to negotiate for a referendum.
It’s.no just off the table, its away in a camper van for the bank holiday weekend.
There isn’t even a table.
His thesis boils down to this sentence:
> If the SNP lose the election in Scotland, the debate on independence stops.
This is more accurate than a lot of terminally online people realise. Some will say “oh but the Greens” or “well there’s also the SSP” or some philosophical statement like “the movement is bigger than one party”. But the point is that in the broad public imagination of people not addicted to following political news, SNP = independence.
Naturally SNP MPs have a selfish interest to be reelected but personally I think Sheppard is one of the more honest ones.
Much like Quebec independence was stone dead 10 years after their knife-edge vote, there is a chance that the same will be true here _for all practical purposes_ soon, and I take no pleasure in saying that.