SCOTTISH PEOPLE SHOULD DECIDE ON INDEPENDENCE NOT LIB DEMS!

Given that anywhere between 60% and 80% according to opinion polls support a referendum on Scottish independence and given that the SNP have won the Scottish elections, while the Liberal Democrats have been beaten into fourth place by the Tories, the moral legitimacy of a referendum being held on independence has now been won.

The SNP and pro-independence parties did not win an overall majority of the Scottish Parliament. The SNP in those circumstances cannot make any direct moves forward to independence and everyone accepts that fact. However it is clear that the Labour party made independence the central plank of this Scottish election and that their negative campaign which flowed unimpaired through a compliant media has been rejected by the voters.

If the unionists believe in their case for the British union they should be willing to put the straight question of Scottish independence to the Scottish voters. If not, why not? Is it that they don't trust the public to decide in their favour? Labour have already tried to launch legal action to overturn the result of the elections, despite the fact it was their own decisions on the ballot papers that left the voters confused!

The fact is that independence support crosses all parties, including people in the traditional 'unionist' parties and their voters. The Liberal Democrats have no right to deny the Scottish people a democratic choice on independence. An independence referendum does not guarantee independence, it only guarantees that the Scottish public will decide on the future of their nation.

What's wrong with that?!