andrewducker | (Reply)

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That's probably fair comment.

It has the advantage internally to the independence movement of demonstrating that the current leadership are trying and externally of demonstrating serious and consistent majority support and probably establishes as a fact that the will of the Scottish people for self-determination is being thwarted by the English government.

Not sure that it gets you much further than that.

I personally would be uncomfortable about formally reading too much in to using the May '21 elections as a proxy plebiscite. I think it would be fair for the Unionist community to say that nobody asked them if the May '21 election was going to be a proxy for indyref 2 and they were voting about schools and Police Scotland etc and the reckoned quite a few SNP voters were too.