[jfman]

People who don’t want to change constitutions, naturally, want to raise the bar to make it harder for those to do so. Such anti-democratic moves are commonplace against revolutionary change.

Nobody is advocating an independence referendum every 5 years. However that’s the spectre that unionists put forward as if nationalists think that’s something to fear. There’s a sizeable proportion that would gladly hold one every five years until they win. There’s no vote winner from the SNP within such fear-mongering.

I don’t think the vast majority find the political system in Scotland particularly unstable. In fact it’s the most consistent period of government since devolution began. A government that, as the First Minister pointed out to Baroness-to-be Davidson, will gladly go to the polls on its record next year.

Seph is in the thread to the Seph-jfman peace accord applies to not go round in circles over the EU. I’m sure we can all reliably predict what we’d all say next...

A confident and bold Labour Party would shift to independence neutral - it’s for the people of Scotland to decide as and when. That’d pull the rug from under the SNP. However, those are two qualities the party doesn’t have.