Use it or lose it

Pro-independence activists are demanding Nicola Sturgeon “use the mandate” at the SNP autumn conference to call for a second referendum. A fringe group, Scotland Land of the Brave Saor Alba, has shared an invite with its followers to attend the party’s showpiece event in October at the Glasgow SEC with the hashtag #Usethemandate.

The Unionist parties outnumber the SNP in Holyrood. No mandate. Scotland has more than our fair share of Westminster MPS: that’s how ‘unfair’ the Union is.

Andy Mac

There’s no overwhelming demand from the people of Scotland for another referendum. The 2014 Scotland independence referendum result does not mean the losing side have to accept that the campaign for Scotland’s independence has been shut down forever. They are perfectly entitled to continue to argue for independence and to try and overturn the 2014 result.

Rocabarraigh

It does mean they have to accept their defeat. They have to be getting on with their lives and allow the rest of the people of Scotland to be getting on with theirs.

World Wide Football Fan

It would be appreciated if they’d do it more quietly though – the majority of folk are fed up to the back teeth with it. We only recently had the one and only ref.

Bertyfish