The Full English with Alexander Brown
Scotland on Sunday
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00:26 Hello and welcome to the Full English, a show that combines politics with somehow not having
00:30 an independence referendum yet. Which Nicola Sturgeon promised? Last Thursday? Maybe the
00:36 plans are in the garden, but never mind. There's a new independence strategy, let's get into
00:40 it. This week the First Minister Hamza Yousaf
00:42 unveiled Indy Strategy 1000, which says getting a majority of seats is a big enough mandate
00:47 for independence. A watertight argument given they've got more seats than that now and
00:52 still haven't been granted a second vote. A gap between SNP pledges and delivery, who
00:58 could have possibly thought it? Could call it an attainment gap, eh?
01:03 The problem is, between the Supreme Court case and a plummeting support for the party,
01:07 the SNP have run out of road when it comes to independence. The UK government isn't
01:10 minded to do it, shock. And moving the goalpost to getting 30 odd percent of the vote isn't
01:15 just unrealistic, it's not democratic, which the party seem to care so much about. How
01:20 can the SNP possibly say they have a mandate when 60% of the country doesn't vote for
01:24 them? Still, I'm sure the reason is because of Labour or the Tories or Westminster. It's
01:29 somebody else's fault. It's always, always somebody else's fault.
01:32 So what have we learned? Firstly, the independence strategy of the week, excited for the next
01:38 one. And secondly, that Dr Lisa Cameron doesn't support it or end independence at all. The
01:43 shocks keep on coming. Until next time, eyebrows on the ground, and you haven't.
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