Supporters of an independent Scotland will launch a new grassroots campaign on T...
EDINBURGH - Supporters of an independent Scotland will launch a new grassroots campaign on Thursday ahead of a possible second referendum on secession from the United Kingdom, hoping to harness Scottish voters’ anger over Brexit.
Under the crowd-funded initiative “Voices for Scotland”, which has some 100,000 supporters, clipboard-wielding activists will fan out across Scotland to try to boost support for secession to the 50-60 percent range. Britain is mired in political chaos after parliament rejected three times the withdrawal deal negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May and other EU leaders, and it is still unclear when or even if it will leave the bloc.“One of the things that ‘no’ or undecided voters said to me in 2014, in the run-up to that referendum was ‘why, what do you want to change, the UK is fine as it is’,” said Chapman.
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