IF the latest opinion polls are anything to go by, it looks like Labour are going to win the next Westminster election in Scotland.
support each hovering around one-third – but the merciless logic of the first-past-the-post electoral system, from which the SNP have benefitted since 2015, might now swing the result, in terms of seats, the other way.
Free school meals, Scottish Child Payments, Baby Boxes, Best Start Grants and the expansion of free childcare show what can be done, even with limited fiscal powers, if the political will is there. One might reasonably argue that the referendum bill would have ended up in the Supreme Court anyway, sooner or later, but the SNP should have been prepared for that institutional stand-off, mobilising people in the words of the supporters of the 1832 Reform Act: “The bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill.”
Besides, whichever trigger we use, a referendum or a parliamentary majority, the main question is the same – does Scotland really have the right and ability to decide our own constitutional future, or are we to continue under Westminster’s sovereignty? To deny and – if necessary – to defy the sovereignty of Westminster takes boldness, steadfastness and intransigence. It means being willing to take the initiative and escalate the political pressure on the British State.The SNP are an independence party or they are nothing. They need to prove they are serious about taking the steps independence will entail.
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