Read More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-s ... s-35788489The SNP will undertake a fresh drive for Scottish independence but not "browbeat" voters into backing change, party leader Nicola Sturgeon has said.
In September 2014, the electorate north of the border voted 55% to 45% to stay part of the United Kingdom.
The politician admitted that many had not "found our arguments compelling enough" to choose to leave.
The new strategy will begin in the summer, after May's Holyrood election and June's EU referendum.
It's a sop to appease the hardcore secessionist base of their support. The referendum was largely lost on economics and the recent GERS figures and the current oil price would make it even more difficult for them to win a referendum in the next few years. Anyway, the SNP may be liars and hypocrites, but they know that they wouldn't last long if they had to stand by their own record rather than shifting blame for their failures to the evil English/Westminster/Tories. And of course, the Scots aren't idiots, they know they're on a cushy number where they get to enjoy the economic safety net of being part of the union while electing a political leadership dedicated to using the threat of secession to get a better funding deal at the expense of the rest of the UK.The Armchair Soldier wrote:SNP Spring Conference: Party to Build New Case for IndependenceRead More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-s ... s-35788489The SNP will undertake a fresh drive for Scottish independence but not "browbeat" voters into backing change, party leader Nicola Sturgeon has said.
In September 2014, the electorate north of the border voted 55% to 45% to stay part of the United Kingdom.
The politician admitted that many had not "found our arguments compelling enough" to choose to leave.
The new strategy will begin in the summer, after May's Holyrood election and June's EU referendum.
So much for "once in a generation", eh?
..you can't keep stringing them along forever though, how many times can she stand in front of them at the annual cult gathering and promise to get another referendum?, at some point, crunch time will come, and she will have to follow through on her promise of another referendum.Pseudo wrote: It's a sop to appease the hardcore secessionist base of their support. .
Cooper wrote:..you can't keep stringing them along forever though, how many times can she stand in front of them at the annual cult gathering and promise to get another referendum?, at some point, crunch time will come, and she will have to follow through on her promise of another referendum.Pseudo wrote: It's a sop to appease the hardcore secessionist base of their support. .
As far as independence goes I don't think that she's got that little time, but I equally don't think that she's got as much time as Parti Québécois had either. To my mind the only things that'll put the nationalists back in their box is either a failed second referendum or a non-Conservative government. Sadly, the SNP leadership know that and are putting a lot of effort in to ensuring neither of those things happen.I'd say she's got until the next elections in 2020 to build the case for it and assuming they win a majority, as seems likely, it will have to be within 18mths of that or there will be trouble.
We'll get one of these days, buddy.SKB wrote:The areas favouring independence ("Yes") were: Dundee, Glasgow, North Lanarkshire and West Dumbartonshire. Coincidently, these areas all have a large population of 'Scots' from Irish migrant origins.
Could indy Scotland even meet the accession requirements? EU probably less willing to bend those rules after the whole Greece saga. Also the prospect of a border between an EU Scotland and an outside rUK pretty much smashes the SNP's continuity argument. Last time round it was all about indy Scotland and rUK both in the EU so no problems. That's categorically no longer on offer. Might make the SNP less likely to go through with indyref 2, instead using it as a means of forcing the UK gov't to back Scottish interests in the negotiations.RetroSicotte wrote:You would be right if the Indy movement was fuelled by that kind of logical economic thinking.
Unfortunately, it's not.
Again, you're assuming Scottish independance is about logic and facts.Engaging Strategy wrote:Could indy Scotland even meet the accession requirements? EU probably less willing to bend those rules after the whole Greece saga. Also the prospect of a border between an EU Scotland and an outside rUK pretty much smashes the SNP's continuity argument. Last time round it was all about indy Scotland and rUK both in the EU so no problems. That's categorically no longer on offer. Might make the SNP less likely to go through with indyref 2, instead using it as a means of forcing the UK gov't to back Scottish interests in the negotiations.RetroSicotte wrote:You would be right if the Indy movement was fuelled by that kind of logical economic thinking.
Unfortunately, it's not.
Also what happens if we go the "Norway" EEA route with continued single market access? Would that cool tempers north of the border?
