Weekly podcast discusses how the UK Government's refusal to engage with existing mandates for independence and the First Past the Post (FPTP) electoral system will lead to strategic voting and a lack of democratic representation. SNP co-leaders express frustration and emphasize the need to remove the Tories from office in the next election.
Weekly podcast that the UK Government’s refusal to engage with existing mandates for independence and the First Past the Post electoral system will cause issues for the
“I feel very frustrated by the fact that this debate has now kind of focused on the next General Election,” Slater said.“One is the UK Government has for years ignored the mandate that we have in Scotland for another referendum.“And the other thing is it's a first-past-the-post electoral system, so not very democratic people end up voting strategically instead of voting for what they want.
“I believe in independence, I can make a good case for it, I can show how being an independent country within“We could build the kind of fairer, greener, more Scandinavian style economy that we know we want to do – that’s the vision that we have.Both co-leaders argued that putting forward a positive case for an independent Scotland is the key to securing independence.
“So we need to continue to recapture that spirit of inspiration that I remember so strongly from 2014 and the run up to it.”We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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