Pete Wishart: Trolling the Yes Movement?

I can only imagine that Pete Wishart is trolling the Yes movement when he gave his “little bit of advice” to those who are extolling some kind of Plan B route to independence in the event of the SNP failing to gain permission from Westminster to hold a new independence referendum, as there has been no shortage of discussion of how a Plan B would operate, and I’ll type this slowly so that Pete can understand it.

There is nothing to stop the SNP including in their manifesto that should they win a majority in the Holyrood election (or indeed any forthcoming Westminster election) then that would taken as permission from the Scottish people for the SNP to commence independence negotiations with London.

This was (pre-devolution) the commonly accepted route to independence and is the exact same tactic that the Lib-Dems used when they said they would cancel Brexit if elected.

By using every election as a de-facto referendum this bypasses the hurdle of having Westminster veto every request which the SNP make.

The down side to this approach is of course that the SNP may lose the support of some voters who choose their party for competent governance within the union, something I’m sure is not lost on the likes of Mr Wishart who barely clung on to his seat in 2017.

There is gradualism and glacialism, and at the present time the SNP appears to have adopted the latter, and the internal infighting over seats, candidacies and list positions suggests to me a party happy to govern North Britain, not one which is kicking down the barriers to creating an independent Scotland.