A thread for Scots who want to be in the EU, and are considering independence as a path. What it boils down to is this; @theSNP are cowards, who don't trust Scottish Voters to make informed decisions, or rather; they know if you were informed it would expose their lies.
Brexit is their justification for independence. An independent Scotland's potential for EU membership is critical to their electoral claims.
Knowing if, how and when it might be possible is absolutely in the public interest. In your interest, OUR interests as europhile Scots
They have a detailed, taxpayer-funded, feasibility study into the timeframes of meeting the Acquis and, by extension, the Copenhagen Criteria - the #CopenhagenReport
It's existence was uncovered by a freedom of information request.
The SNP are fighting tooth and nail to prevent YOU from seeing the study YOU have paid for about what YOUR vote would actually mean.
They believe we, Scottish voters, are mushrooms; to be kept in the dark and fed shit until we are harvested.
Step back and think of this general question; from the US to UK to Scotland to Spain to Cuba - why do governments hide reports from their voters?
Is it ever because they would support government claims - or is it always because they would expose them?
You wouldn't, I hope, buy a house without getting a survey done and reading the report.
Please take the same care with your vote.
The strategy is familiar to you.
Not just from Brexit.
In fact it's the oldest con in the book.
The old-switcheroo
They want a pig-in-a-poke Referendum.
Only after the votes are in will they let the cat out of the bag that EU membership isn't quick, easy, certain or even - with keeping the pound, possible.
And there will be no going back; no confirmation vote once the lies are exposed.
If they win, YOU will be told "we will deliver independence as the will of the people; EU membership wasn't on the ballot"
They are working hard to present independence as a choice between unions.
It's not.
The choice is in the UK, or out of both unions.
The damage of Brexit PLUS the damage of Scexit.
J'accuse @NicolaSturgeon You are a coward who says it's 'not in the public interest' for us Scots to know the truth.
They were fully prepared to take us out of the EU with a yes vote in 2014.
The SNP are not a pro-EU party.
They didn't even bother to get legal advice on our EU membership before publishing the whitepaper.
The SNP are not a pro-EU party.
They suppressed the parliamentary committee findings into an independent Scotland's potential EU membership because they were politically inconvenient. We still don't have them 6 years later.
For a start every SNP politician, every opening of parliaments, wears a white rose to honour their founding faither Hugh MacDiarmid, author of 'plea for a Scottish Fascism'
@MhairiHunter Then there are the cover-ups about the EU. The party is, and has done, everything it can to keep the truth from Scots about if, how and when we could meet the Copenhagen Criteria.
@MhairiHunter Then there's the poor quality of SNP politician we get. Derek MacKay, Margaret Ferrier, Michelle Thompson, Natalie McGarry, Mark McDonald...
You never know when your representative my be jailed, disgraced or simply dissapear... With no refunds
Super poll? Super pollocks more like!
The 64% they got for the headline was stretching it a bit!
First thoughts on the findings;
Was there nobody under 22 questioned?! 100% of their respondents recorded how they voted in 2014.
Either their sample isn't representative, with no first time voters, or it's piss-poor survey question design.
On that point as well; If their sample *does* include first time voters, then at best their claim of swing in previous no voters is unsound.
And only 1% of sample said they wouldn't vote, but we know only about 80% max ever vote.
Seems unsound.
Politicians ask for your trust that you vote then they'll deliver on the mandate you give them; whether that's to stop brexit, put Scotland first, scrap council tax or a 3rd, 4th, 5th mandate for an indyref2... Or an oven-ready deal.
If you are interested in the potential of a iScot in the EU, you'l find this an informative and, I hope, a useful resource. I can promise if you read it, you will be better informed than most UK politicians!
This detailed study looks at the positions, paths, promises and problems & links to primary sources from the ScotGovt, Holyrood committees, The European Commission, EU publications & law, as well as secondary sources like quotes from politicians & media.
I analyse the process and different proposals, busting many myths, mistakes and misconceptions. It is a long read, so it has been broken down into these sections that can be individually book-marked and referred to... Here we go!