SNP must hold new Scottish Independence Referendum now while Prime Minister May still needs her 13 Scottish Tory MPs for Hard Brexit vote in Westminster New poll shows half of all Scots (49%) want Independence and/or full Home Rule, according to a new opinion poll carried out on behalf of Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party (www.SIRP.Scot). The survey, carried out between 24-28 January 2018 by the independent polling company Survation, (encl) asked voters what their voting intention for Scotland’s constitutional future would now be. The results were: Full independence 32% Keeping the current situation 36% Devo-Max 17% Don’t know 16% Mark R Whittet
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Glaswegian glamour model and fellow un-elected, re-jected, anti-democratic British Unionist Lords to have more say on Scotland’s future in Brexit than elected Scottish MPs
Today (25 Jan 2018) members of the House of Lords – including the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Wales and the shadow spokesperson for Northern Ireland and Scotland – will debate the role of devolved administrations <ie the Scottish Government> in the Brexit withdrawal from the EU and future opportunities for ‘strengthening the union’. This is because the minority-Tory British government lied about – and failed to give – MPs in the House of Commons a vote on post-Brexit return of devolved powers from Brussels. Instead – as the Brit-Govt Minister for Scotland (David Mundell) has confessed – these powers over
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Now the time comes closer for Scottish Independence Referendum following Brexit omnishambles in London, Brussels, Dublin and Belfast
Now the time comes closer for Scottish Independence Referendum following Brexit omnishambles in London, Brussels, Dublin and Belfast Not now, but soon will be the time for a second Scottish Independence referendum given the vastly-changed political landscape following last night’s Brexit omnishambles by the British government. Mark R Whittet, (LLB, BA) Leader of Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party said today: “The entirely-unsurprising collapse of the London-led ‘negotiations’ over Brexit with the EU has clearly exposed the double-dealing duplicity of the Tory government in Westminster, which wants a ‘Brexit cake and eat it’ policy of leaving N. Ireland in the EU customs
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The REAL GERS report shows Scots richer per head than UK in Independent Scotland
The REAL GERS report shows Scots richer per head than UK in Independent Scotland See full report: http://tinyurl.com/y9qjf343 Commenting today on the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland 2016-17 (GERS) report, Mark R Whittet, Leader of Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party (www.SIRP.scot) said: “The GERS report was expressly designed by a Tory-run Brit-Govt to create confusion and to paint a one-sided picture of why Scotland is ‘too poor, too wee, too stupid,’ etc to be Independent. “The GERS report should be shown the ‘red card’ and kicked into touch – permanently. “Only with an independent economic study – including the real data
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GERS report should be shown the red card, says Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party
The annual Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland 2016-17 (GERS) report has been published today. Commenting, Mark R Whittet, Leader of Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party (www.SIRP.scot) said: “Whatever statistics are published in this report, they will not paint the whole picture. “The GERS report was expressly designed by a Tory-run Brit-Govt to create confusion and to paint a one-sided picture of why Scotland is ‘too poor, too wee, too stupid,’ etc to be Independent. “The GERS report should be shown the ‘red card’ and kicked into touch – permanently. “Only with an independent economic study – including the real data on
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Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party tells ex-SNP MP Michelle Thomson (and other potential Holyrood MSPs): ‘Come and join us’
Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party is asking former SNP MP Michelle Thomson – and other potential Holyrood MSPs and supporters) to join us in ‘evening up the odds’ in favour of a Scottish independence referendum. Thomson was elected SNP MP for Edinburgh West in the 2015 general election, taking the seat from the Liberal and was immediately appointed as the party’s business spokeswoman. However, she resigned the party whip in September that year following allegations about past property dealings and did not stand in the June 2017 election. Last week, the state prosecution system said Thomson had no case to answer
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Tory Brexit will hit Aberdeen and Edinburgh economies TWICE as HARD as rest of UK – so SNP MUST collaborate in progressive alliance with Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party to maximise Indy-MSPs in next Holyrood election
OFFICIAL: City of London report says that Aberdeen and Edinburgh will suffer twice as much as UK average in Tory-led ‘hard’ Brexit’ The economies of every major British city are set to decline under the ‘hard Brexit’ plan being forced through the parliament by the Brit-Govt. But the economies of the oil and gas based Aberdeen-Grampian and financial services-based Edinburgh-Lothian regions are set to fall by twice as much as the UK average, according to the findings of a new report published today (27 Jul 2017) by a London-based think-tank. And Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party (SIRP.scot) leader – Mark R
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Coalition of EVEL taints outcome of British parliament election
Commenting today on the British general election result, and the following statement from the Electoral Reform Society, Mark R Whittet, Leader of Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party, said: “There is now a Coalition of EVEL (English Votes for English Laws) haunting the outcome of this Anglo-Scottish election. “Because of EVEL – rushed through in a fit of pique by the last Tory prime minister after the SNP tsunami with 56 seats in the 2015 election – none of the newly-elected British Unionist MPs in Labour, Tory or Liberal parties in Scottish seats will be able to vote on English health or
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SNP attack Labour for anti-Independence election pact with Tories* – but Sturgeon refuses to form progressive alliance with Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party
(* SNP party political statement, below, refers) Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party has accused the SNP of ‘double-standards’ by failing to respond to an offer to form a progressive alliance. Mark R. Whittet, Leader of Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party – who is the SIRP prospective parliamentary candidate for Edinburgh West – said: “It is completely two-faced of the SNP to lambast Labour for urging Tory voters in Edinburgh South to vote for Labour to defeat the SNP, when SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has not replied to the offer from Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party to join with us in a progressive alliance
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‘Contaminated SNP’ urged to stand down from Edinburgh West election battle
The SNP is a ‘contaminated political brand’ and the party should not put up a candidate to fight the highly marginal Edinburgh West seat at the UK general election on 8 June. Soon after winning the seat at the last election for the SNP, the £-millionaire MP Michelle Thomson become involved in allegations relating to her property business interests. Now the newly-established Scotland’s Independence Referendum Party is urging SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, to not put up a replacement candidate in place of Thomson – who has since been suspended from the party. Mark R. Whittet, the
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