"I accept democracy, I accept the vote" (Image: BBC QUESTION TIME/GETTY )
The SNP have continued to campaign for Scotland to leave the UK, despite losing the 2014 independence referendum. Nicola Sturgeon’s party is also hoping to overturn the 2016 Brexit referendum result. A number of audience members took aim at the nationalist party on Question Time last night, which was broadcast from Elgin in northern Scotland.
One commented: “I’m proud to be Scottish but if the SNP Government want to make an independent Scotland more appealing to me why don’t they get on with governing the country properly first?”
Ms Sturgeon has threatened to speed up plans for a second independence referendum if the UK Government pushes ahead with a hard-Brexit.
She has previously said there should be another vote before the current Scottish Parliament term finishes in 2021, despite Alex Salmond describing the 2014 vote as a “once in a generation opportunity”.
Speaking to ITV’s Robert Peston on Wednesday Ms Sturgeon said a hard Brexit would “certainly see a lot of people want to bring that choice for Scotland to be independent as close as possible”.
