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NICOLA Sturgeon started the election by announcing a vote for the SNP would be a vote for a new independence referendum.
Launching her party’s campaign, the First Minister vowed: “My intention is that the people of Scotland will decide Scotland’s future in an independence referendum next year.”
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And she added: “At this election, we have a precious opportunity to secure the right to choose that future.”
A few days later her manifesto promised: “Before the end of the year, we will demand that the UK Government transfers the necessary powers under The Scotland Act to ensure the decisions about the referendum can be taken by the Scottish Parliament.”
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The party’s pledge to somehow “Stop Brexit” took a very clear second place.
Now the emphasis has changed. It’s quite clear demand on the doorsteps for more referendum division has not been quite as high as the SNP hoped.
And while Ms Sturgeon claims she wants IndyRef2 next year — or IndyRef2020 as she used to be keen to call it — she now seems to be limiting the expectations of her party faithful.
Today, she reminded indy hardliners: “A referendum, if it is to be capable of delivering independence for Scotland, has to be legal, it has to be accepted in terms of its legitimacy and I’ve never shied away from that.”
Ms Sturgeon has turned down the volume because there seems to be a waning appetite for her referendum message.
SNP support is soaring in the polls, but it comes as support for independence falls — down to below the 45 per cent which lost the 2014 referendum.
None of that will matter on Friday. Ms Sturgeon will claim every vote as a public endorsement for all her policies, from Brexit to tackling the drugs crisis, to scrapping Trident and starting IndyRef2.
A General Election is not a referendum. It’s not black and white. Voters have to accept the whole basket of policies, or none at all.
So think carefully before you decide.
We’ll all pay
SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell has promised to “end austerity” in a speech setting out Labour’s priorities for its first 100 days in government.
He says he will stand the economy on its head inside three months.
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His campaign of renationalisation — taking train companies, Royal Mail, the water industry and the big six energy firms into public ownership while providing free wifi for all by grabbing part of BT — will cost most of us nothing, he says.
And we can crank up the spending on public services and social security while only the top five per cent will have to pay.
It sounds great — but who do they expect to believe it? No one believes there is such a thing as a free lunch.
And no one has forgotten what happened the last time Labour got to play with the economy.
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