The Scottish National Party (SNP) believes that it has arrived, which were buried, and the electoral debacle that starred in the party in the parliamentary elections of July last year. The current leader of the formation and head of the Autonomous Government of Scotland, John Swinney, presented this Wednesday in Edinburgh a new document of more than 100 pages, loaded with technical, legal and economic arguments in favor of the secession of the United Kingdom and titled “A new beginning towards independence” (A Fresh Start With Independencein its original English version).
“Independence consists in giving Scotland a new beginning, and an opportunity to build an economy that works for us. A future where decisions are taken by the people who live here,” Swinney anticipated in the social network its intervention, with which it intends to channel the debate of the Congress of the Party, which plans to start next Saturday and will focus on the internal debate on the independence aspirations of the training.
because he understands that with a labor government in London the political, historical and even personal residents that the Scottish population felt towards the conservative party, and towards the damage caused by Brexit, which Scotland rejected in its moment of plane has been significantly turned off.
The current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Labor Keir Starmer, has already made it clear, even before accessing power, who did not see other independence referendum during his mandate.
“Self -government has been useful for Scotland,” said Main Minister Swinney in Edinburgh. “But we have reached or we are about to reach our competence limits,” he added, to point out that autonomy begins to fall short for SNP.
The report clings to the conclusions recently prepared by the thought center Resolution Foundationwith great influence on the current executive of Keir Starmer, who point out that the average home in the United Kingdom would be increased its annual income by about 9,600 euros (just over $ 11,000) if the income and inequality of the country are equated with those of others of its environment of similar size. The SNP wanted to adapt that data to the Scottish reality, to conclude that, with independence, each family of the territory would be about 11,700 euros ($ 13,700).
“When we embark on the construction of a state nation in Scotland, everything suggests that we can approach those high productivity levels and the high living standards of the societies of our neighbors in Northwest Europe,” Swinney promised.
The report presented maintains the idea, defended in previous years, that an independent Scotland would enter the EU and maintain as a member of NATO, but it would be undo of the nuclear weapons that the United Kingdom maintains in its territory.
El factor Farage
The SNP leader, however, has also taken advantage of the fear caused by a reality that all surveys draw as an increasingly close possibility. , heads all polls, the political debate in the United Kingdom has been appropriated and has made both the Labor Government and the opposition of the Conservative Party adopt a reactive attitude, with proposals that even exceed the right to those launched by Farage.
“Given the direction to which Westminster [como se denomina en la jerga política inglesa al centro del poder en Londres, alrededor del Parlamento] They are trying to drag a day by day, the need for the Scottish people to consider an alternative future is increasingly pressing. It is urgent and essential, “he said.” The idea that Nigel Farage can be prime minister is very real, “he added.
Swinney has recovered the debate from Independence, with the intention of promoting a new attempt to referendum (the last was in 2014, and support for permanence in the United Kingdom was 55% compared to 45% of the separation) if the SNP retains the Scottish autonomous government in the May 2026 elections.
However, there is another more radicalized training sector, which wants the program with which these elections be firmer, and that a majority support for the SNP and the formations that support secession, such as green, is considered a secessionist mandate indeed.
His intention is to present an amendment to the text of the address in Congress that will be held in Aberdeen, in which it is clear that, if winning the next regional elections, a new referendum would not be necessary to proclaim independence.
“It will be the party to decide,” said Swinney. “These are my proposals, and I think they are correct for the party to advance,” he responded to critics.
