MORE than half of all Scots want to see a Team Scotland at the next Olympics. Survation found 53% of voters wanted Scottish athletes to do their own thing, as they do at the Commonwealth Games, rather than as part of a Team GB. At the last games in Rio, Scottish competitors who took part individually or in team events had their most successful Olympics. Tennis star Andy Murray and rower Heather Stanning were among the four gold medal winners. Scots also took home seven silver medals and two bronze medals. At the Paralympic Games, sprinter Libby Clegg was responsible for two of the country’s five gold medals.
Actually, though it may seem contradictory – the answer could be yes to all the above. Let’s start with the poll commissioned by Scot Goes Pop and published yesterday which suggests more than half of Scottish voters would back the next Holyrood election being used as an “opportunity to vote for or against independence”. James Kelly interprets that as backing for the Plan B option favoured by Chris McEleny and Angus Brendan MacNeil which anticipates that Boris Johnson will “dae an Osborne” and keep saying no to indyref2 no matter the size of the SNP’s likely majority in the May elections.
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Ruth Davidson won Edinburgh Central in 2016 at Holyrood by a smaller majority than the number of votes the Greens won ALAN Crocket (Sunday National, January 17) is wrong in his one-sided call for the SNP to stand down on the list in favour of the Greens and others. The first fatal flaw is there is no guarantee that we will win as many as 70 seats out of 73. This is, I sadly fear, over-optimistic, especially as the Greens have confirmed they will be standing candidates in the constituencies. Has he forgotten that in 2015 David Mundell retained his Westminster seat over the SNP by a smaller majority than the number of votes the Green candidate won?
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