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SNP MSPs back second independence referendum
The SNP has faced accusations of treating voters with contempt after senior party figures suggested a second independence referendum could be held within five years of them losing the first.
Nationalist MSPs argued that defeat in the autumn 2014 vote will not settle the issue for a generation, as Alex Salmond has previously stated, if the result is close.
Instead they said precedents in Quebec in Canada and Malta showed a second referendum could be staged in a relatively short space of time.
But opposition parties attacked the ‘neverendum’ strategy, which is understood to have wide support within SNP ranks, and urged voters to frustrate it by handing the separatists an emphatic defeat in two years’ time.
Senior Nationalist figures have started considering a second vote despite the deal to hold the first referendum, signed by David Cameron and Mr Salmond, committing both sides to respect the result and “work together constructively in the light of the outcome.”
Patricia Ferguson, Scottish Labour constitution spokesman, said: “The SNP have let the cat out of the bag, they seem to want to hold referendums until they get the answer they want.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/s…endum.html
2012-12-23 13:47:54
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