Independence Taskforce News Today

As Samuel Beckett wrote: “Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.” The SNP and the Tories – as the lead voices of the Yes and No camps – are utterly bereft of ideas. They’ve run out of ways to make political progress on the constitution. The central problem is the collision of two seemingly immoveable objects: the mandate in the Scottish Parliament for Yes-supporting parties, and the refusal by Boris Johnson’s Westminster administration to grant a referendum....

SNP ministers insisted at the start of the coronavirus pandemic that official advice on the emerging threat should be “branded” as Scottish. Official minutes from one of the Scottish Government’s emergency operation meetings show ministers wanted people to know the advice was coming out of Edinburgh as well as London. Opposition parties said the public would be “baffled” by the sense of priorities, and said ministers should have been solely focused on tackling the developing ...

A high-profile campaigner will be announced to head up the taskforce and fire up the Yes movement THE SNP is ramping up the drive for independence with the creation of a dedicated taskforce to lay the groundwork for a new Yes campaign. The party’s campaign director Keith Brown said the group would bring together strategic direction and expertise which is the “final piece in the jigsaw” to help deliver independence. A “high-profile” campaigner to head the taskforce is expecte...

UNIONIST parties have launched a fierce attack on the SNP for announcing a new dedicated independence taskforce to lay the groundwork for a new Yes campaign. Keith Brown, the partys depute leader and campaign director, unveiled the initiative today saying the group would bring together strategic direction and expertise which is the “final piece in the jigsaw” to help deliver independence. A “high-profile” campaigner to head the taskforce is expected to be announced in the nex...

THE SNP have announced the creation of an “independence taskforce” against the backdrop of the Covid pandemic and a looming double-dip recession.

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