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When will the SNP admit its independence dream is over?

19 June 2024

10:47 PM

19 June 2024

10:47 PM

Line one page one of the SNP manifesto is, as promised, about independence. If the SNP wins a majority of seats it will ‘be empowered to begin immediate negotiations with the UK government to give democratic effect to Scotland becoming an independent country’. Well in your dreams. No one seriously believes that independence is coming, even in the SNP.

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