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T_i_B

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Thu Jan 30, 2020, 09:52 AM Jan 2020

UKIP says next job is to abolish Holyrood [View all]

Don't be surprised if this becomes a fashionable cause with right wingers before too long

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18190916.ukip-says-next-job-abolish-holyrood/

UKIP’s Scottish branch has said its new mission in the wake of Brexit will be to abolish Holyrood - by first getting elected to it.
The party said it wanted to make a “proper Unionist case” for reverting to the pre-devolution status of 72 MPs in Scotland and the country “governed exclusively” from London.

It said: “There is no current political party in Scotland making a proper Unionist case which, in our view, means a return to the pre-1999 position with Scotland... governed exclusively by The House of Commons.

“UKIP intends to fill this political gap by fielding candidates in each of the eight Regional Lists at the May 2021 Holyrood election in the hope of gaining in each case the 6% or so proportion of the vote which would lead to the election of an MSP.

“For too long the Nationalists and phoney Unionists have dominated the Scottish political scene.”
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