Stuart Nicolson: Securing independence can help Scotland tackle global problems

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Stuart Nicolson: Securing independence can help Scotland tackle global problems
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Far from being a distraction as opponents claim, securing Scotland’s sovereignty is a way to tackle the global problems we are all facing

It’s been almost a year since the UK Supreme Court ruled that Holyrood does not have the unilateral power to hold an independence referendum.

So that’s that then was pretty much the Unionist response – Scotland is boxed in and there is no way to a legal referendum. Except, of course, that is nonsense. There is a way, as the vote of 2014 shows; it just involves democracy being respected, and ultimately that is the course which must prevail.

Ignoring that question is an impossibility, but in addition to addressing it, at least as much effort needs to go into the “why” of independence.

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