As if Scotland hasn’t suffered enough at the hands of the SNP, the luxury campervan party and its Green accomplices have now formally voted to back a second independence referendum. In Holyrood this evening, MSPs voted 72-55 to approve plans for another ballot, almost 12 years after the last one failed.
Of course, no such referendum could take place without Westminster’s say-so, and Sir Keir Starmer is in no mood to indulge John Swinney’s fantasies by granting a Section 30 order. Responding to the vote, a Downing Street spokesperson said:
The UK Government does not support independence or another referendum. Ahead of 2014 there was agreement across all parties, across civic society in Scotland and across the Scottish and U.K. parliaments that there should be a referendum. There is no such consensus now.
While the SNP harped on about another referendum, opposition parties in Holyrood today seized the moment to lay into the Nats for being just as rotten as the rest of them. Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar decried party members being ‘robbed’ after investing ‘hard-earned cash’ in the party.
Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay, meanwhile, lambasted Swinney for insisting he knew of no wrongdoing throughout the Peter Murrell embezzlement scandal. He accused SNP MSPs of a ‘painful lack of self-awareness’.
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