Double standards
The Lib/Dems have been accused by the SNP of double standards for proposing to overturn the results of the Brexit referendum while insisting that the Scottish Independence result should stand.
Kirsty Blackman, the SNP’s deputy leader at Westminster said Swinson was guilty of “utterly grotesque” hypocrisy and acting in a way that was “neither liberal nor democratic".
Of course, when the Lib/Dems and the SNP accuse each other of double standards, both are correct.
The Lib/Dems are guilty of double standards by suggesting that if they win an election this would give them a mandate to overturn the Brexit referendum while refusing to accept that argument when it comes to allowing the SNP to call another independence referendum - they have made clear that if they were in government they would reject any "article 30" request from the Scottish government for another independence referendum.
But the SNP are equally guilty of exactly the same kind of double standards and hypocrisy by supporting tactics to delay and block the result of the UK's referendum on leaving the EU which would have them screaming blue murder if such tactics were deployed against any vote by the Scottish people to leave the UK.
Just imagine if the Scottish people had voted "Yes" in 2014, or were to vote for Independence in any future referendum, and three years later Scotland were still in the UK because unionists were voting to delay, block and sabotage Scottish Independence in the same way that SNP politicians have voted to delay, block and sabotage Brexit. You'd hear the screams of outraged Scottish nationalists from as far away as Cornwall.
Personally I believe that both the vote by the Scottish people in 2014 and the vote by the British people should be respected and implemented, and I would not support any new referendum on either unless there were overwhelming evidence - far stronger than anything which exists to date - that the people of Scotland or the UK had changed their minds.
STOP PRESS - to reinforce that last point a new Survation poll has just revealed that 59% of Scots want Scotland to stay in the UK.
Kirsty Blackman, the SNP’s deputy leader at Westminster said Swinson was guilty of “utterly grotesque” hypocrisy and acting in a way that was “neither liberal nor democratic".
Of course, when the Lib/Dems and the SNP accuse each other of double standards, both are correct.
The Lib/Dems are guilty of double standards by suggesting that if they win an election this would give them a mandate to overturn the Brexit referendum while refusing to accept that argument when it comes to allowing the SNP to call another independence referendum - they have made clear that if they were in government they would reject any "article 30" request from the Scottish government for another independence referendum.
But the SNP are equally guilty of exactly the same kind of double standards and hypocrisy by supporting tactics to delay and block the result of the UK's referendum on leaving the EU which would have them screaming blue murder if such tactics were deployed against any vote by the Scottish people to leave the UK.
Just imagine if the Scottish people had voted "Yes" in 2014, or were to vote for Independence in any future referendum, and three years later Scotland were still in the UK because unionists were voting to delay, block and sabotage Scottish Independence in the same way that SNP politicians have voted to delay, block and sabotage Brexit. You'd hear the screams of outraged Scottish nationalists from as far away as Cornwall.
Personally I believe that both the vote by the Scottish people in 2014 and the vote by the British people should be respected and implemented, and I would not support any new referendum on either unless there were overwhelming evidence - far stronger than anything which exists to date - that the people of Scotland or the UK had changed their minds.
STOP PRESS - to reinforce that last point a new Survation poll has just revealed that 59% of Scots want Scotland to stay in the UK.
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