Scotland’s Sturgeon To Seek Second Independence Referendum, Expects Vote After Fall 2018

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As discussed earlier, moments ago Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced she would seek steps to set out a new independence referendum. Sturgeon, speaking from Bute House, the first minister’s official residence in Edinburgh, Ms Sturgeon said ‘it is important that Scotland is able to choose our own future at a time when the options are clearer than they are now, but before it is too late to decide our own path.”
STURGEON: WILL TAKE STEPS TO LET SCOTS DECIDE ON INDEPENDENCE STURGEON: WILL SEEK SCOT PARLIAMENT NEXT WEEK FOR SECTION 30 SCOTLAND TO TAKE STEPS TO NEW INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM NEXT WEEK STURGEON: EARLIEST POINT FOR VOTE IS NEXT AUTUMN – BBG STURGEON SEES SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE VOTE FALL ’18 TO SPRING ’19 Of the headline above, perhaps the most important is that Sturgeon sees the next Scottish independence vote to take place between fall 2018 and spring 2019, thus providing a substantial time buffer from when the UK is expected to submit Article 50, which could come as soon as this week.
Sturgeon said ‘What Scotland deserves is the chance to decide our future in a fair, free and democratic way’ and added that “I will now take the steps necessary to make sure that Scotland will have a choice at the end of this process.”
She also said the Scottish National Party’s mandate for a second referendum ‘is beyond doubt’ after the result of last June’s Brexit vote, in which 62 per cent of Scottish voters backed remain.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Mar 13, 2017.