Yeah sure.
The mandate for indyref2 is now cast-iron, having been voted for by the Scottish electorate in 2016,passed by a majority in Holyrood,and now triple locked by the fact of the SNP winning a majority of Scottish seats.It was in their manifesto as policy.
The SNP is strongly committed to giving Scotland a choice on our future at the end of the Brexit process.
The SNP Scottish Government has a clear mandate to offer the people of Scotland a choice. The SNP has won two elections – the Scottish Parliament election in 2016 and the General Election last year – with an explicit commitment in our manifesto on holding a referendum. The Scottish Parliament has also endorsed that position.
The Scottish Government will not introduce legislation for an independence referendum immediately. At the end of Brexit negotiations the Scottish Government will set out its judgment on the best way forward, and on the precise time scale of the people of Scotland having a choice on our future.
But dark castle if you believe the Scottish people are not sovereign and should not be treated as an equal partner in the union? May I remind you,
Lord Cooper’s much-cited judgement in McCormack vs the Lord Advocate (1953) where he stated that “the principle of unlimited sovereignty of parliament is a distinctly English principle and has no counterpart in Scottish Constitutional Law”. Equal importance must also be given to the Lord Advocate’s own concession, “admitting the Parliament of Great Britain could not alter or repeal fundamental and essential conditions of the Acts of Union.”
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