Commenting today on the news that Catalan Independence politician Clara Ponsati is preparing to hand herself in to Polis Scotland on the issue of a European arrest warrant from Spain, Mark R Whittet (LLB, BA), Leader of Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party said; “This shocking abuse of democratic process of the European arrest warrant system by Spain is intolerable and should be resisted by Scotland’s courts and government. “Can we imagine the British government handing over Sergei Skripal to Moscow on a European arrest warrant if Russia was part of the EU? Or London handing over the war-time Polish government-in-exile in
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Monthly Archives March 2018
Time for new Scottish Independence referendum as new poll shows most Scots (60%) believe they will be worse off when UK leaves the EU
With six in 10 Scots (61%) fearing they will be worse off as a result of leaving the EU in a UK-led Brexit, the time is fast-approaching when a new Independence Referendum for Scotland is needed. Commenting on the results of the IPSOS MORI poll, Mark R Whittet, leader of Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party, said: “The 2014 Scottish independence referendum was based on Tory-led Brit-Govt lies that Scotland would be worse off outside the UK, and that the only way Scotland could remain in the EU was to vote ‘No’ to independence from England. “As recently confirmed by official Brit-Govt
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Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party (SIRP) calls on the SNP to work together in a progressive alliance and stand aside in Aberdeen Donside as its shamed MSP quits party
Following the decision of Aberdeen Donside MSP Mark McDonald to quit the SNP – but continue to sit as an Independent MSP in the Scottish parliament – it is unlikely that the SNP will hold the seat in the next Holyrood general election. Even though McDonald held the seat in 2016 for the SNP with a 56% share of the vote, his admitted inappropriate behaviour towards women is likely to alienate at least half of the majority (ie the female-SNP vote). And voters in general do not like Holyrood or Westminster MPs clinging to seats by quitting their party after unethical and/or
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