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Originally Posted by Chris
Not the point, and never was. Such a pity that the separatist movement has descended so quickly into the very weasel-worded duplicity it accuses Westminster politicians of.
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It’s entirely the point. No generation of voters is permitted to bind the rights of the following generations in this manner, any more than the voters that put us into the EU could be entitled to claim we could not withdraw. Are you claiming that the mandate for a referendum would be stronger if a party other than the SNP led the calls and won the election?
What is unusual is that the proposal is for a referendum closer to 10 years after the previous one. However if that’s what people vote for they are entitled to time and time again until people get bored of it. If the opposition are ineffective at portraying that as a waste of time, or distracting from getting on with day to day business, or portraying their own vision for Scotland within the devolution settlement then that’s unlikely to change.