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Sturgeon making an uncharacteristic (despite what the tories or the press say) attack on Westminster in her statement to Holyrood - opposing the situation in which ScotGov is hampered in its covid response, the refusal of extra borrowing powers, imposition of a migration system that is unjust and will harm Scotland, the unnecessary damage of Brexit, etc. and says should become independent.

ScotGov to publish a draft Bill, setting out proposed terms and timing of an independence referendum, as well as the proposed question.

Long overdue in the eyes of many within the Sottish independence movement Jim although my own personal opinion was "it's all about the timing" - implanting the vision for a future economic recovery, post pandemic, but changing the programme for govt to a radical one of a fairer, greener country (and the challenges ahead) with a Scottish referendum bill attached to it as the "spectre" of Brexit gets closer and closer and these Tory/Brexit extremists are hellbent on stupidly pushing through this catastrophe on top of the economic catastrophe of COVID19. Also remember that Scotindy campaigning has been almost non-existent and rightly so because of this unprecedented crisis period, something none of us have observed in our lifetime. The various factions of the Scotindy movement are prepared and "ready to go" knowing that there is a positive "mood swing" in the Scot population that seems to be steadily hovering and will move positively to another level of positive support for Scot indy. My hunch is that the impending Brexit outcome will be the "flame that lights the touch paper" for the Scotindy movement to mobilise. However, caution must be uttered re the imposed restriction of the pandemic on the country. One must ask, "When will this crisis end eh"? There are, of course, other imaginative ways to channel the message to the country but taking it "en masse" to the towns and cities would be perfect.