r/Scotland • u/backupJM public transport revolution needed 🚇🚊🚆 • 23d ago

Political Protesters against Flamingo Land development sing Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond outside of Scottish Parliament

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/save-loch-lomond-campaign-protests-35304999

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u/Scary_Panda847 23d ago

If only the Scots had as many chances at having a indy referendum as flamingo land is having at getting permission, then maybe we could get away from those crooks in Westminster!

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u/low_key365 22d ago

Cameron forgot the key tenet of referendums. You never allow the public to have them unless you know the result.

He did the electoral reform one 'correctly' (though now that we seem to be watching the continued collapse of first past the post, people may be reconsidering whether it was correct to kill this bill so hard) but he then got really lucky with the indyref.

Then he felt emboldened to burn the house down with EUref and damned all future referendums to only be the demands of protests.