The General Secretary of Alex Salmond’s Alba Party has called for Westminster to be ground to a halt and for peaceful direct action to be held in the new year.
Alba’s General Secretary Chris McEleny says that “it is time to act to bend Westminster to the will of Scotland”.
McEleny said “As we look to 2023, in what will be a pivotal year, the Independence movement must use every democratic, and constitutional route open to us, including parliamentary disruption, diplomatic initiative and direct action on the streets to assert the right of the people of Scotland to decide our own constitutional future.”
Scottish MPs could grind Westminster to a standstill every single day until Westminster accepts Scottish democracy
Chris McEleny
The comments from Alba’s General Secretary are an indication that the pro-independence party intend to up their campaign activity into the new year.
Commenting today (Thursday) ALBA Party General Secretary Chris McEleny said:
“The ruling by the Supreme Court to reject, not just the Scottish Parliament’s legal right to hold an Independence referendum, but to go even further, in denying the ancient nation of Scotland’s right to self-determination will go down as one of the key defining moments of 2022.
“But we should be in no doubt that the Supreme Court ruling and the UK Government’s ongoing refusal to transfer the power to the Scottish Parliament to hold an Independence referendum pose challenges to the Yes movement which we have a duty to meet head on.
“Either the Westminster Parliament is sovereign or the people of Scotland are sovereign. It cannot be both.
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