We should call an election and leave England
THE Westminster Government’s interference in the Gender Recognition Bill in Scotland is absolutely appalling and unprecedented.
A majority of elected MSPs debated and passed this legislation.
For Westminster to directly intervene is an attack on devolution and all it stands for.
I note that all the usual suspects who criticise our attempts to obtain independence are looking rather sheepish just now.
The Scottish Government should move to dissolve the parliament and call an election immediately.
We can then measure the extent to which the electorate wish to proceed: to allow Scotland to continue to be a region of England or whether we have the strength to make our own way in the world like other similar sized nations and become independent in our own right.
MA ( Glasgow)
MS Sturgeon recently stated about the SNP Scottish Government: “We will be vigorously defending ... the ability of MSPs, democratically elected, to legislate in areas of our competence. In short, we will be defending Scottish democracy.”
In short, First Minister, on August 2021 democracy was eroded in Scotland by those who they were elected to defend!
Green Party members appointed to govern and their projects are ill thought out - eg to leave oil and gas in the North Sea and moves to restrict the whisky industry could further wreck Scotland’s economy!
Division has grown within Green and SNP ranks, and with the voter, by the denial by Government of incompetence in many areas.
Lack of open accountancy to those who pay the salaries of MSPs only darkens the already murky waters of trust.
Not resigning when all they touch is further eroding Scotland’s cash flow and opportunities to remove food banks, pay decent salaries and bring industry to Scotland’s shipyards.
Not to remove Blackford, Yousaf, Swinney, Sommerville and FM as incompetent is damaging to the Greens/ SNP, and more importantly to the Scottish nation they purport to represent! Resolution time 2023!