After years of false promises, the SNP still has no route to a referendum, says James Mitchell holyrood.com/comment/view,a…

Been making the need for clarity and consistency on agreed rules on this for decades. Unilateral declarations are just means of avoiding challenging questions involved in prospectus - and yesterday’s pointless rehash on economy doesn’t even begin to do that.

Foothills? At this rate the summit *might* be reached in a century if we’re lucky. The tough part always comes after the foothills.

Indeed. Commission on Local Tax Reform, co-chaired by Labour COSLA President and SNP Minister, in 2015 concluded that the ‘opportunity for reform cannot be missed again’. The excuses just keep coming…

Wonder why he didn’t share his ‘secret plan’ with her all those years she led the SNP - was he keeping it for his return or has he had some great revelation? John Swinney’s been spending too much time with Donald Trump.

The Independent Budget Review Group report 2010 raised the need to address this very issue. And many have raised this repeatedly since (+ indeed before). We’ve heard Ministers say this many times. John Swinney’s mantra for some years was ‘pace and scale’ of change was required.

Basic stuff. If not known would be bad enough. If known and still spouting this nonsense is shameful.

More silliness from the SNP fundamentalist wing. Fortunately nationalists willing to engaged think very differently and engage constructively.

James Mitchell Al has blocked me Prof There is a route. By agreement between our UK Gov and ScotGov. We just had an election in 2024 👇 Swinney proudly displayed the first page of the slim manifesto document, which reads “vote SNP for Scotland to become an independent country”. SNP lost

The political myths surrounding MacCormick vs the Ld Advocate is fascinating - certainly mobilised opinion but legally… but then ‘sovereignty’ is one of those concepts that should be filed under theology, not politics.

Much study + debate including evaluations of English experience exist. 50+ were later closed (subject of a study). Questions: what evidence considered/lessons learned before announcement; who consulted; how were opportunity costs considered; what implementation plans exist?

Not held = not exist?