According to Nicola Sturgeon there will be two elections this year. The first for the Scottish Parliament will take place in May and the second will be a referendum on Scottish independence. Elections normally involve lots of people meeting to hear campaign speeches and then lots of people travelling to polling stations, but both of these activities would be banned at the moment. How does Sturgeon know that they will be possible later this year? Scotland cannot even manage to keep schools open, yet in a few months we will be ready to separate from the United Kingdom.
There are a wide variety of opinions on Covid. Some people think lockdowns don’t work. They are probably correct. I think huge numbers of people who don’t think they are much at risk from the virus meet up with their friends and lovers no matter what the Government says. The only way to stop them would be introduce Chinese methods of surveillance or Japanese methods of rule following voluntarily.
But it matters little whether we agree or disagree with lockdown. Talk to the Government if you must, we are all going to be stuck inside with pretty much everything shut until things get better. It’s hard to believe under these circumstances that even one election in Scotland will be possible let alone two.
What could allow elections to take place? Last year lockdown was eased in May in England, but in Scotland we had to wait until late June for shops to open. Sturgeon will no doubt want to be equally cautious this year about everything other than the Scottish Parliament Election and indyref2.
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