Showing posts with label Indyref2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indyref2. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 09, 2024
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
‘Outright Democracy Denial’: Nicola Sturgeon Reacts to Supreme Court Ruling
Read the accompanying Guardian article here.
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The Guardian view on Scotland and the constitution: a crisis is brewing: A supreme court ruling against Nicola Sturgeon’s referendum plans clarifies the challenge ahead for unionists »
Saturday, October 22, 2022
'We're Not Giving Up' on Independence: Scottish External Affairs Secretary • FRANCE 24 English
Monday, October 17, 2022
Monday, October 10, 2022
In Full: Nicola Sturgeon Says Economic Case for Independence Will Come Next Week
Nicola Sturgeon says independence isn't a "miracle cure" for Scotland's economy, but claimed the country "can do so much better than this".
Closing the SNP's annual party conference in Aberdeen, Scotland's first minister said the economic case for independence will be published next Monday as she doubled down on her push for another referendum on 19 October 2023.
Nicola Sturgeon tells SNP conference: ‘We are the independence generation’: First minister promises ‘steady hand on tiller’ while offering reassurance to those opposed to UK exit »
Great speech, Ms. Sturgeon! Scotland deserves its independence. Doesn't Wales deserve independence too? Westminster is a shambles under the Tories; it would be no better under Labour, either. Westminster no longer speaks for the Celtic fringe in this dis-United Kingdom. The English wanted to go it alone; so let them do so! We in the Celtic fringe want to re-join the European Union as independent nations. The Welsh will never have true prosperity being ruled by Westminster. Don’t we in the Celtic fringe deserve better? – © Mark Alexander
Closing the SNP's annual party conference in Aberdeen, Scotland's first minister said the economic case for independence will be published next Monday as she doubled down on her push for another referendum on 19 October 2023.
Nicola Sturgeon tells SNP conference: ‘We are the independence generation’: First minister promises ‘steady hand on tiller’ while offering reassurance to those opposed to UK exit »
Great speech, Ms. Sturgeon! Scotland deserves its independence. Doesn't Wales deserve independence too? Westminster is a shambles under the Tories; it would be no better under Labour, either. Westminster no longer speaks for the Celtic fringe in this dis-United Kingdom. The English wanted to go it alone; so let them do so! We in the Celtic fringe want to re-join the European Union as independent nations. The Welsh will never have true prosperity being ruled by Westminster. Don’t we in the Celtic fringe deserve better? – © Mark Alexander
Nicola Sturgeon: Scottish Independence ‘Makes the Case for Optimism’
THE GUARDIAN: First minister uses SNP conference to promise steady hand compared with Westminster mayhem
Nicola Sturgeon giving her keynote speech on day three of the Scottish National party conference in Aberdeen. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Nicola Sturgeon has told the Scottish National party’s annual conference that independence makes the “case for optimism” in troubled times, and promised Scotland “a steady and compassionate hand on the tiller”.
The first minister spoke of the “massive responsibility of me and my government” to help Scots through the cost of living crisis, as she spoke to delegates in Aberdeen at the party’s first in-person conference since the pandemic.
Contrasting the UK government’s plans to “bundle [asylum seekers] on to planes like unwanted cargo”, Sturgeon emphasised Scotland’s international responsibility to stand with those in Iran, Afghanistan, Russian [sic], Belarus and Ukraine.
Sturgeon’s blunt assertion that she “detests” the Tories, made on the Laura Kuennsberg TV show on Sunday morning, attracted criticism from opponents and dominated Monday’s front pages, but she did not baulk at describing the tax cutting package announced by the UK government as “unconscionable”. » | Libby Brooks, Scotland correspondent | Monday, October 10, 2022
Nicola Sturgeon has told the Scottish National party’s annual conference that independence makes the “case for optimism” in troubled times, and promised Scotland “a steady and compassionate hand on the tiller”.
The first minister spoke of the “massive responsibility of me and my government” to help Scots through the cost of living crisis, as she spoke to delegates in Aberdeen at the party’s first in-person conference since the pandemic.
Contrasting the UK government’s plans to “bundle [asylum seekers] on to planes like unwanted cargo”, Sturgeon emphasised Scotland’s international responsibility to stand with those in Iran, Afghanistan, Russian [sic], Belarus and Ukraine.
Sturgeon’s blunt assertion that she “detests” the Tories, made on the Laura Kuennsberg TV show on Sunday morning, attracted criticism from opponents and dominated Monday’s front pages, but she did not baulk at describing the tax cutting package announced by the UK government as “unconscionable”. » | Libby Brooks, Scotland correspondent | Monday, October 10, 2022
Thursday, August 11, 2022
Tuesday, August 02, 2022
Liz Truss Dismissal of ‘Attention Seeker’ Sturgeon Will Horrify Scots, Says SNP
THE GUARDIAN: Tory activists cheered leadership favourite when she said first minister should be ignored
Liz Truss says she would ignore 'attention seeker' Nicola Sturgeon – video
Liz Truss has been accused of tarnishing the unionist case against Scottish independence after calling Nicola Sturgeon an “attention seeker” who ought to be ignored.
John Swinney, the deputy first minister and Sturgeon’s closest political ally, said Scottish voters would be “absolutely horrified” by Truss’s “obnoxious” remarks, made during a Conservative leadership hustings in Exeter on Monday evening.
“Unionist campaigners suggest that Scotland should be at the heart of the United Kingdom. How Scotland can be expected to be at the heart of the United Kingdom when the democratically elected leader of our country is, in the view of the person most likely to be the next prime minister of the UK, somebody that should be ignored is completely and utterly unacceptable,” he told BBC Scotland.
“So, I think Liz Truss has with one silly intemperate intervention fundamentally undermined the argument that she tries to put forward that Scotland somehow can be fairly and well treated at the heart of the United Kingdom.” » | Severin Carrell, Scotland editor | Tuesday, August 2, 2022
If Nicola Sturgeon is an “attention seeker”, what are you, Ms. Truss? Not only are you an attention seeker, but you are also a turncoat. You were raised in a Labour-voting household, became a staunch Liberal Democrat, pro-EU, and a Remainer to your very core. Then, when you saw that it might be to your advantage to join the Conservatives, you turned coat yet again and became a staunch Conservative Brexiteer! And you have the nerve to call Nicola Sturgeon an attention seeker. It would seem to me that it is indeed you, Madame, who are the attention seeker, not Nicola Sturgeon.
That comment about Nicola Sturgeon was extremely unwise. In a few words, you have alienated many Scots. Moreover, if I am not greatly mistaken, you have given Nicola Sturgeon an enormous boost in her quest to separate from this England-dominated Union.
It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that if you win this Conservative leadership race, we Brits have a very rough, stony and bumpy road ahead. We Brits would all be well-advised to fasten our safety belts. – © Mark Alexander
Liz Truss has been accused of tarnishing the unionist case against Scottish independence after calling Nicola Sturgeon an “attention seeker” who ought to be ignored.
John Swinney, the deputy first minister and Sturgeon’s closest political ally, said Scottish voters would be “absolutely horrified” by Truss’s “obnoxious” remarks, made during a Conservative leadership hustings in Exeter on Monday evening.
“Unionist campaigners suggest that Scotland should be at the heart of the United Kingdom. How Scotland can be expected to be at the heart of the United Kingdom when the democratically elected leader of our country is, in the view of the person most likely to be the next prime minister of the UK, somebody that should be ignored is completely and utterly unacceptable,” he told BBC Scotland.
“So, I think Liz Truss has with one silly intemperate intervention fundamentally undermined the argument that she tries to put forward that Scotland somehow can be fairly and well treated at the heart of the United Kingdom.” » | Severin Carrell, Scotland editor | Tuesday, August 2, 2022
If Nicola Sturgeon is an “attention seeker”, what are you, Ms. Truss? Not only are you an attention seeker, but you are also a turncoat. You were raised in a Labour-voting household, became a staunch Liberal Democrat, pro-EU, and a Remainer to your very core. Then, when you saw that it might be to your advantage to join the Conservatives, you turned coat yet again and became a staunch Conservative Brexiteer! And you have the nerve to call Nicola Sturgeon an attention seeker. It would seem to me that it is indeed you, Madame, who are the attention seeker, not Nicola Sturgeon.
That comment about Nicola Sturgeon was extremely unwise. In a few words, you have alienated many Scots. Moreover, if I am not greatly mistaken, you have given Nicola Sturgeon an enormous boost in her quest to separate from this England-dominated Union.
It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that if you win this Conservative leadership race, we Brits have a very rough, stony and bumpy road ahead. We Brits would all be well-advised to fasten our safety belts. – © Mark Alexander
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Nicola Sturgeon Seeks Supreme Court Ruling on Scottish Independence Vote
THE GUARDIAN: First minister tells MSPs she wants to hold second independence referendum on 19 October 2023
Nicola Sturgeon gives a statement on independence referendum in the Scottish parliament at Holyrood in Edinburgh on Tuesday. Photograph: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images
Nicola Sturgeon has asked the supreme court to rule on whether the Scottish government can hold a non-binding referendum on independence, without having Boris Johnson’s permission to stage one.
The first minister said on Tuesday the lord advocate, Dorothy Bain QC, has written to the supreme court in London asking it to hold a hearing on whether the Scottish government has the legal powers to hold that vote.
She told MSPs her government wanted to stage a second independence referendum on 19 October 2023, using the same question put to voters in 2014: “Should Scotland be an independent country.”
In a statement at Holyrood, Sturgeon said that if the court ruled that that would not be a lawful use of her government’s resources or breached its constitutional powers, the Scottish National party would make independence its only policy at the next UK general election. » | Severin Carrell, Scotland editor | Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Schottische Regierung plant neues Unabhängigkeitsreferendum im Oktober 2023: Die schottische Regierungschefin Nicola Sturgeon will ihre Landsleute im Herbst des kommenden Jahres erneut darüber abstimmen lassen, ob Schottland ein unabhängiger Staat werden soll. … »
Nicola Sturgeon has asked the supreme court to rule on whether the Scottish government can hold a non-binding referendum on independence, without having Boris Johnson’s permission to stage one.
The first minister said on Tuesday the lord advocate, Dorothy Bain QC, has written to the supreme court in London asking it to hold a hearing on whether the Scottish government has the legal powers to hold that vote.
She told MSPs her government wanted to stage a second independence referendum on 19 October 2023, using the same question put to voters in 2014: “Should Scotland be an independent country.”
In a statement at Holyrood, Sturgeon said that if the court ruled that that would not be a lawful use of her government’s resources or breached its constitutional powers, the Scottish National party would make independence its only policy at the next UK general election. » | Severin Carrell, Scotland editor | Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Schottische Regierung plant neues Unabhängigkeitsreferendum im Oktober 2023: Die schottische Regierungschefin Nicola Sturgeon will ihre Landsleute im Herbst des kommenden Jahres erneut darüber abstimmen lassen, ob Schottland ein unabhängiger Staat werden soll. … »
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