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| Scott2006 wrote: | The Scottish Independence Convention has how many active supporters/associates/members? If anyone knows please inform and enlighten me.
If it has 500 signed up for the online petition is that about 200 activists each with a total of 300 friends that could be bothered signing up?
IndependenceFirst was at one point 'flashmobbed' by a group from one of the Communist Parties and effectively taken over by entryism, according to a popular version of the facts.
A figure of 1 million voters signing up in Scotland to support a referendum is today as it was a few years ago an almost impossible mountain to climb. The political atmosphere is very different from almost 50 years ago when a different convention could command a far higher degree of respect and involvement.
The Labour supporting media would need to be enlisted to deal even handedly in refering to the group before the numbers of signatories rises. The SIC would need some heavyweight names associated with it before the media find it not in their best interest to marginalise it and then rubbish it.
The SIC will either be something that is kept on the back-burner and pushed to the foreground in the last few months before a vote is attempted in the Scottish Parliament on the consultative referendum bill proposal, or the SIC will be like the CSA effectively hijacked by one political party and allowed to fade out of existence when the next set of cross party figureheads a few years later tried/need to try to find some common ground. |
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