The Greens’ co-convener Patrick Harvie has launched a charm offensive with “no’ voters, saying independence is the best way to end austerity Colin HattersleyPatrick Harvie called on the Scottish Greens to prepare for a second independence vote as he appealed for those who voted “no” to “join our cause”. The party’s co-convener told its conference in Perth there was an “unresolved democratic deficit” between the 2014 vote for Scotland to remain in the UK and the EU referendum, in which 62 per cent of Scots voted to remain. He accused the Better Together campaign of “pulling the wool over people’s eyes” in the independence campaign. He made a direct appeal to Labour “no” voters to join the independence movement to deliver nuclear disarmament…

Source: The Times October 21, 2016 23:26 UTC