Democratic outrage if Scotland’s future is up to Andy Burnham
It is a democratic outrage that Scotland’s First Minister is having to write to Andy Burnham to lay out a democratic process for the people of Scotland to decide our own future, say the Scottish Greens.
Scottish Green Co-leader Gillian Mackay said:
“It is a democratic outrage that the First Minister is having to write to the Prime Minister in the first place.
“The right to hold a democratic referendum should rest with the people of Scotland. If a majority of elected MSPs in the Scottish Parliament vote to hold a referendum then that democratic mandate should be respected.
“We have already endured far too many years of obstruction, hurdles and political games from UK governments terrified of allowing the people of Scotland to decide their own future.
“It has gone on for far too long. The Scottish Parliament should have the power to trigger that referendum, rather than a UK Government hundreds of miles away.
“I hope that the Prime Minister responds in good faith and that he lives up to the promises he has made to decentralise power and end the tired and broken ‘Westminster knows best’ approach of his predecessors.”