Letters / Independence can be achieved by declaring it
Wednesday of this week marked the 10th anniversary of the independence referendum. Remarkably, Wednesday also marked the SNP voting in Edinburgh with all theunionist parties against using 2026 Holyrood election as a future referendum!
The SNP used to be the answer, but their vote this week tells me that the SNP are broken.
Since the referendum ten years ago, instead of running Scotland well, the SNP lost their way with gender recognition, the hate bill, and other useless bills.
Mishandling policy in Edinburgh is bad enough, but the sole founding purpose of the SNP -independence for Scotland – has been ignored. With winning huge numbers of SNP MPs in Westminster elections they had the mandate, but they simply chose not to move independence forward.
The SNP stepped back from claiming what their voters instructed them to get.
With the SNP vote on Wednesday, independence has been downgraded, the SNP has independence as a wish list to be trotted out at election time, but no way to get it.
How to get independence?
Thankfully, there are many more independence supporting parties than when the SNP stood alone.
All votes for independence supporting parties should be counted across Scotland, and if there is a majority, then declare UDI, unilateral declaration independence.
We are in a ‘voluntary’ union that we cannot get out of. There is no other political option other than UDI. We cannot get independence through the courts, that was tried and failed. We will not get permission from the UK to hold a referendum, our big resource-free big brother is not letting resource-rich Scotland go any time soon. They need us more than we need them.
Polls already say that the support for independence is much higher than support for the SNP, no independence supporter should ever vote SNP again.
It is up to voters in Scotland who believe in independence to vote for an independence supporting party, and with a majority across Scotland, it is up to independence supporting political parties to carry out the instructions from the voters.
Get the job done! With a majority, declare UDI then invite Westminster to Edinburgh to start independence negotiations.
Brian Nugent
Hamnavoe
Burra
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