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Should Westminster Allow Indyref2?
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I think they should let wee Jimmy get it out of her system once and for all.
I think they should let wee Jimmy get it out of her system once and for all.
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"...that [another referendum]would be undemocratic as the established principle goes."
The "established principle" (if there is such a thing) is that it is bad form to hold a second or subsequent referendum on the same question before the result of the first has been implemented. It may be acceptable (and in fact be de rigueur when the "wrong" answer is returned) in the rest of the EU but not here in the UK. It's not the way things are done because it is insulting to those whose decision had been ignored.
The result of the first Scottish Independence referendum has been implemented. To ask the same question again six or seven years after the first plebiscite is just about acceptable.
"It's up to them though..."
No it's not, pixie. Any referendum (to have any effect) has to be sanctioned by the Westminster Parliament.
The "established principle" (if there is such a thing) is that it is bad form to hold a second or subsequent referendum on the same question before the result of the first has been implemented. It may be acceptable (and in fact be de rigueur when the "wrong" answer is returned) in the rest of the EU but not here in the UK. It's not the way things are done because it is insulting to those whose decision had been ignored.
The result of the first Scottish Independence referendum has been implemented. To ask the same question again six or seven years after the first plebiscite is just about acceptable.
"It's up to them though..."
No it's not, pixie. Any referendum (to have any effect) has to be sanctioned by the Westminster Parliament.
"Ok, nj. But why are we not allowed one?"
I don't think that you're being denied one, pixie. Ms Sturgeon obviously does not want a second referendum to end in similar failure (which would probably kill the issue for a generation or more). I think she's simply picking the right time. I don't think Westminster will refuse her request (at least I hope not).
I don't think that you're being denied one, pixie. Ms Sturgeon obviously does not want a second referendum to end in similar failure (which would probably kill the issue for a generation or more). I think she's simply picking the right time. I don't think Westminster will refuse her request (at least I hope not).
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