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For context, then, remember that THAT is the (sort-of) newspaper that was asking the First Minister questions on this video, ie not precisely a hostile inquisitor.
Sturgeon is clearly struggling to comprise her irritation and impatience at being requested extremely gently about independence. She rolls her eyes, grimaces, appears away and tries to depart greater than as soon as, dodging the softball questions.
Does she strike you, readers, as somebody enthusiastic and excited and getting ready to deliver Scotland its independence in lower than 18 months’ time?
(Readers could have famous how contrastingly comfortable and comfortable she’d appeared simply days earlier than, among the many nice and good of the British institution on the Jubilee bash.)
There at the moment are simply over three weeks till Holyrood closes for summer time recess, which implies any motion on a brand new indyref couldn’t even START till September. Subsequent September is the final credible date for a 2023 referendum. If there’s anybody left in Scotland who actually believes the method of securing one – full with passing the entire requisite legal guidelines, having the Electoral Fee take a look at the query, getting by means of a authorized problem and conducting a number of months of precise marketing campaign – might be accomplished in below 12 months, please get in contact as we’d wish to promote you this:
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(PS In case anybody doesn’t know, we at the moment have a Twitter account once more. We don’t count on it to final lengthy, however within the meantime you’ll be able to observe it right here.)
