THE SNP conference is now in its second day. The highlight of Sunday was the adoption of an independence strategy for the next Westminster General…
The strategy states that page one line one of the party's manifesto for that election will declare:"A vote for the SNP is a vote for Scotland to become an independent country."
This strategy has been criticised by some who say that it remains vague on what will happen if the Westminster Government simply refuses to recognise that a pro-independence mandate has been won at the ballot box.Government would be highly likely to do so, just as these parties refused to accept, and still refuse to accept that the current Scottish Parliament was elected with a cast iron and incontrovertible mandate for another independence referendum.
The constitutional question in Scotland then becomes, not a question about whether Scotland is better served by independence or by the continuation of Westminster rule, but an existential question about the continuing existence in Scotland of democracy itself. In this crucial respect, it's not the SNP which will be tested by the next Westminster General Election, but the Labour and Conservative parties and their willingness to respect the democratic choices of the Scottish electorate.There's no denying that the SNP has an uphill struggle. The British media is ranged against not only the SNP as a party, but the very idea of Scotland's right to self-determination.
The continuing party conference of the largest political party in Scotland did not even rate a mention. What we have just now is a ridiculously biased media which does its utmost to marginalise and ignore the independence issue despite – or more likely because of – the fact that it is the preferred constitutional option of half of the Scottish population.
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