Wednesday, 18 September 2024 marked the tenth anniversary of the independence referendum. Remarkably, Wednesday also marked the SNP voting in Edinburgh with all the unionist parties against using 2026 as a future referendum!
The SNP used to be the answer, but the vote this week tells me that the SNP are broken. They are a problem that independence supporters should not vote for.
Since the referendum ten years ago, instead of running Scotland well, the SNP lost their way with Gender Recognition, the Hate Crime bill, and other useless bills.
Mishandling policy in Edinburgh is bad enough, but the sole founding purpose of the SNP, which was independence for Scotland, has been ignored. When they had huge numbers of SNP MPs in Westminster elections, they had the mandate, but they simply chose not to move independence forward. The SNP stepped back from claiming what their voters instructed them to get.
With the SNP vote on Wednesday, independence has been downgraded. The SNP has independence as a wish list to be trotted out at election time, but no way to get it.
How to Gain Independence?
Thankfully, there are many more independence-supporting parties now than when the SNP stood alone.
All votes for independence-supporting parties should be counted across Scotland, and if there is a majority, then we make a Unilateral Declaration Independence (UDI).
We are in a ‘voluntary’ union that we cannot get out of. There is no other political option other than UDI. We cannot get independence through the courts, that was tried and failed. We will not get permission from the UK to hold a referendum: our resource-free big brother is not letting resource-rich Scotland go any time soon. They need us more than we need them.
Polls already show that the support for independence is much higher than support for the SNP, so no independence supporter should ever vote SNP again.
It is up to voters in Scotland who believe in independence to vote for an independence-supporting party, and with a majority across Scotland, it is up to independence-supporting political parties to carry out the instructions from the voters.
Get the job done! With a majority, declare UDI then invite Westminster to Edinburgh to start independence negotiations.
Brian Nugent, Party Secretary, Sovereignty