Scotland Again Demands Independence Referendum

The Guardian reports:

Nicola Sturgeon has challenged Boris Johnson to give Scotland the powers to hold a second independence referendum after the Scottish National party won a landslide in the general election.

The first minister said she had won “a renewed, refreshed and strengthened mandate” to call for a fresh independence vote after winning 47 of Scotland’s 59 Westminster seats, 11 more than in 2017.

SNP strategists said the significance of its victory, which has echoes of its remarkable landslide in 2015 when it won 56 seats, was given greater weight by the contrast with the election result in England where the Tories won a significant overall majority.

Scotland’s Choice https://t.co/TWMy6RaoV5

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Westminster is broken.

It doesn’t have to be this way. We can build a better, fairer, more equal country.

An independent country.

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— The SNP (@theSNP) December 12, 2019

To all those folk in England tweeting that they now want to move to Scotland… #YoureWelcome #PlentyOfRoom #KettleIsOn pic.twitter.com/8ayK3yDPyz

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