The SNP are desperate for a second vote asap. They know the increased powers coming their way will mean they can no longer pin all problems on "Westminster", and they will have to make unpopular decisions if they are to govern scotland effectively.
The UK should pass a bill prohibiting repeat referenda within a defined timeframe. Two full parliaments doesn't seem unreasonable.
Two parliaments isn't long enough. 4 would be better. There is no reason to have another ref earlier than this. They said it themselves, once in a generation. So FFS, leave it a generation.
You are correct. They would want it sooner rather than later, as otherwise they will be given enough rope to hang themselves.
And while, perhaps, Ms Sturgeon didn't actually say she would prefer another Tory government, I would be willing to bet she is quite happy with it. It plays right into her agenda of blaming the Tories for everything, including devolved matters.
The cult of the SNP is actually quite worrying from my perspective it looks a bit like if you're not SNP you're not for scotland.
They seem to have managed to make voting SNP the patriotic choice rather than the correct democratic choice.
I don't like Salmond at all either but he's right another one will come.
This is the problem. Apparently I wasn't a true Scotsman because I wanted to keep in the union. I was apparently a traitor to the country, flag and ancestors. Despite it being our ancestors who signed up to the union all them years ago.
I voted no because it was the democratic choice. I would never get a government I voted for otherwise. What the SNP supporters don't appear to realise is how a democracy actually works. I was forever accused of only voting for myself, and how selfish that was. But that is how it is meant to work. The result of voting for yourself is that the winners of the vote ARE the majority of the country. A point lost on many of them.
To be fair though, many of them are really quite stupid too. They appear to be of the opinion that they will get as good a result in the MSP elections next year as they did in the GE. They obviously don't realise how the voting system works in Scotland. I have no doubt they will do well, and have a majority in Hollyrood. But they will no doubt be disappointed when they only get a touch over 50% of the seats.
