@BelieveinScotland@mastodon.scot writes: “Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s refusal to accept Scotland's demands for a second referendum isn't just a betrayal of his own claimed key principle; it is as much a denial of reality as it is of democracy. Just like all his recent failed predecessors as PM, he doesn't give a damn about Scotland, its people, and their needs. Treating Scotland as a region of England rather than a sovereign nation and proving that there is no voluntary element to the Union is not going to make the issue of Scotland's independence go away. We are not asking for a referendum; we are demanding one. We are demanding the right of Scotland's people to choose Scotland's future. The "Celtic Exit" is underway; all three of the UK's Celtic nations are led by Governments that wish to end the UK. More and more of the people of those nations are now refusing to accept that they can be continually outvoted, ignored, and economically harmed by an overwhelmingly anglocentric Westminster Government. His own team encourages the media to call him the King of the North, which is about as egotistical as politics gets. What they haven’t considered is that it can take more than 3 hours to drive from South Scotland to Manchester and the real North of Scotland is 4 hours in the other direction. There were people in Scotland who thought Corbyn was the answer - he wasn’t. Then they thought getting rid of the Tories was the answer - it wasn’t. To be brutally honest, Burnham just isn't the answer; he's just the new face of the ongoing problem that no UK PM of any party gives a damn about Scotland. Scotland’s wellbeing will only be realised when all of Scotland’s problems and opportunities are fully in Scotland’s hands. Only independence offers the solutions Scotland needs.” https://www.believeinscotland.org/indyref_petition #ScottishIndependence #BelieveInScotland