I came across an SNP leaflet titled Vision and contains the following little survey:
Do you think?...
Scotland should…
1 Be able to decide to bring our troops home from Iraq?
2 Be like Ireland and have a voice and votes in the European Union?
3 Be given the choice over Scotland’s future in a referendum?
4 Be like New Zealand and introduce a decent pension to drive down pensioner poverty?
5 Be like Norway and invest a share of our oil revenues in a fund to benefit future generations?
If you answered YES to one or move above, perhaps you should find out more about the SNP and our ambitions for the future of Scotland.
Interesting….. I think Wendy may have answered YES to question three just the other day. No?
4 hours ago
5 comments:
As an SNP supporter, I notice that you are strangely quiet on whether YOU support any of these ideas...
Are you FOR asking the people what their view is on the future.
Or do you think the people don't have a right to decide whether Scotland becomes independent, or has a massively more powerful parliament.
Your leader David Cameron seems to think that the Lisbon Treaty (which in comparison to independence is a fairly trifling issue) should be ratified by the People.
Why is it then your party thinks the people still don't have a right to decide on whether they want a Union with England, a mere 301 years after it was first foisted on them?
Are you afraid of the answer you'd get?
Thanks for the comments.
The Scottish Conservatives stated in our manifesto, as did the Lib Dems and Labour, that we were against an independence referendum and people voted for us.
Let me start by stating my political allegiancies! The last Scottish Parliament elections was the first time I'd voted SNP and their performance and straight forward approach only makes they grow on me all the more. Previously, I'd voted for the LibDems, but I couldn't bring myself to vote for the rubbish they were espousing at that last election!
Back to the blog post and comments at hand...
You're not answering the question! Simple yes or no please. Please don't give us the politician's BS answer.
Wee Wendy has come around to the idea, as have her noobLabour minions, so who knows what else has change since the election.
The referendum will happen in the lifetime of this parliament, so the Tories need to get into the mindset that the people will be deciding this issue and Annabel and her croonies will have to be campaigning to save the union or perhaps that should be, "Just say no!" (to independence). You'll most likely be just as successful as the other campaign that uses the same phrase!
Factually very true.
And very "clever" answer; mainly because you didn't answer.
Why don't you support asking the people? It is their right. Polls aren't always the be all and end all, but they regularly show 80-90% want a referendum, even if far less are in favour of independence (sad though that is).
Your party has proposed a change to the constitution of Scotland; probably a fairly big change in the form of that dratted commission.
Yet you don't want to ask the People.
My only question is why do the UK have a right to be asked over the Lisbon treaty, which in reality is fairly minor compared to either "devolution max" or full scale independence, yet the Scottish people don't have a right to an independence referendum that the overwhelming majority favour.
People decided at the last Scottish Elections when the majority of voters voted for a Unionist Party. Many of these people will be feeling a tad betrayed by Wendy and Labour at the moment.
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