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Old 13-10-2016, 05:03 PM #10
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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier View Post
The SNP have always been clear about their desire to leave the UK. The party were voted into power democratically with that being known. Therefore, the majority voted for a party who they knew would try for independence. That - along with the drastic change of circumstances in the UK since the first vote - is a very clear mandate for them to do everything in their power to pursue that goal.
As someone from Scotland do you see the strangeness in the situation of seeming to want to swap the UK for the EU a supserstate with less democracy, more beaurocracy, where Scotland would be lost with virtually no say over its laws? It seems a bizarre choice to me.
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