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Originally Posted by 007stuart
David Cameron just said on TV, with regard to losing Rochester by-election
"If you don't win something, it doesn't mean you should just give up and not continue to fight for something you believe in"
Dave, remember the Referendum and how you tell us all to get back in the box and accept the result.
Double standards or what!
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Not really. Continuing to fight to win seats in Parliament implies acceptance of the agreed five year schedule of elections. Continuing to fight for Scotland to leave the UK, on the other hand, has no constitutional basis. All we have to go on there is the SNP's white paper, which called the 2014 referendum a once in a lifetime event, and the words of Alex Salmond, who expressed similar sentiments only a week before the vote.
Everyone who voted in Rochester understood that they were electing an MP only until next May. Everyone who voted in Scotland in September understood that they were voting in a once in a generation, if not once in a lifetime, referendum on the nation's constitutional status.
It's only the duplicitous Nats who have spent almost every day since then, trying to find excuses to wriggle out of a commitment they made when they thought they wouldn't have to honour it.