Despite a first consultation where 55 % of the voters had rejected self -determination in 2014 and the refusal of the London government, Nicola Sturgeon wishes to organize a new referendum by 2023.
Le Monde with AFP
The Scottish Prime Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, launched, Tuesday, June 14, a new campaign for the independence of Scotland, by revealing the first in a series of white buses pleading for a break with the United Kingdom . “After all that has happened, Brexit, COVID-19, [British Prime Minister] Boris Johnson, it’s time to present a different and better vision,” said M Me Sturgeon, during a press conference.
“It is time to talk about independence,” added the head of the SNP independence party, considering having “an undeniable democratic mandate”, in this sense, after the victory of his training in local elections in 2021.
Nicola Sturgeon wishes to organize by 2023 a new self -determination referendum in Scotland, despite a first consultation where 55 % of voters had rejected independence in 2014 and despite the refusal of the London government. She believes that Brexit, to which the Ecossans have opposed, has changed the situation and that the nation must, now, be able to join the European Union (EU) as an independent state. “Brexit has torn from the EU and the single market against our will, with enormous damage to trade, living conditions and public services,” she pleaded.
Boris Johnson opposes it
“In this crucial period, (…) We are linked to a British economic and social model which forces us to disappointing economic and social results, which will probably worse rather than improve outside the European Union ? “Launched Nicola Sturgeon. “Or do we raise, on the contrary, our eyes with hope and optimism and do we inspire from comparable countries across Europe?”
The first Document published Tuesday, which analyzes the performance of ten European countries like Ireland, Switzerland or Belgium, shows that these are “more prosperous, more just and more productive than the United Kingdom”, underlined the manager. “Why not Scotland?”, With abundant energy resources, an important food industry and a rich natural heritage, she insisted.
Other documents will follow in the coming months, on currency, public finances, social security, trade, defense and security, or even belonging to the EU.
Boris Johnson, who has the last word to authorize this referendum or not, is firmly opposed, believing that such a consultation can only occur “only by generation”. “This government has no respect for democracy,” said Nicola Sturgeon. “We have a Prime Minister without democratic authority in Scotland and without moral authority everywhere in the United Kingdom.”