{"id":44078,"date":"2018-11-16T13:26:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T12:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=44078"},"modified":"2023-01-03T22:18:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:18:24","slug":"harvie-time-has-come-for-second-indyref","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=44078","title":{"rendered":"Harvie: Time has come for a second indyref."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The case for Scotland choosing its own future grows stronger with each day. The Brexit calamity gives the issue greater immediacy but, frankly, even if Brexit is killed off the past two years have proved beyond doubt the level of contempt Scotland is shown inside the UK.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>This has been a period of such confusion and chaos, but one thing is as clear now as it has ever been. Scotland will only get the strong future relationship we want with Europe \u2013 as the overwhelming majority voted for \u2013 if we\u2019re a full, independent member of the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m reminded of what the former Daily Record editor, Murray Foote, said when he came out in support of independence earlier this year: \u201cFor me, independence is about autonomy, allowing Scotland to meet success and failure on its own merit and not point an embittered finger of blame at anyone else.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Let\u2019s not go down with them. It\u2019s time we charted our own course, and offered the people of Scotland not impossible promises but a secure future as a member of our European family. It\u2019s time \u2013 once again \u2013 to say Yes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Patrick Harvie, co-convener of the <\/em>Scottish Green Party<em> (<a title=\"The National: Why the time has come...\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/17227414.why-the-time-has-come-for-nicola-sturgeon-to-act-on-independence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase;\">See also:<\/span><\/strong> <a title=\"Harvie pl\u00e4diert f\u00fcr neue Abstimmung.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=32202\"><code>01<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"The odd one out.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=20847\"><code>02<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"Zu Heiss gebadet?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=32264\"><code>03<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"RISE, neue Linke f\u00fcr Schottland.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=25033\"><code>04<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"Brexit-Minister zur\u00fcckgetreten.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=44068\"><code>05<\/code><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;\">||<\/span> <a title=\"Harvie: Johnson makes independence more inevitable.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=54112\"><span style=\"color: #ff8c00\"><code>01<\/code><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case for Scotland choosing its own future grows stronger with each day. The Brexit calamity gives the issue greater immediacy but, frankly, even if Brexit is killed off the past two years have proved beyond doubt the level of contempt Scotland is shown inside the UK. This has been a period of such confusion [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","entity-eu","entity-verc","issue-brexit","issue-good-news","issue-indyref2","issue-quotation","location-schottland","language-english","topic-politik","topic-selbstbestimmung"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44078"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75755,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44078\/revisions\/75755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}