Submission Documents: By Councillor Susan Aitken:- "Scotland's right to choose. Council notes the outcome of the 2019 UK general election, in which all of Glasgow's MPs and a majority of Scotland's MPs were returned on a manifesto that noted the Scottish Government's mandate to offer the people of Scotland the right to choose their own future in a new referendum on becoming an independent country. Council recognises that Glasgow wholeheartedly rejected ruthless Conservative austerity and isolationism which threatens jobs, sustainability and wellbeing and regards that the new Conservative Government's recklessness decision to delay its budget until 11th March is another example of the disregard in which it holds Scottish devolved and local government and Scottish communities. Council believes that it is a fundamental democratic principle that decisions on Scotland's future should rest with the people who live here. Council believes that the UK Government's continued refusal to acknowledge any circumstances in which the Scottish people would have the right to make a choice about their constitutional future is fundamentally undemocratic. Council further believes that both the UK Government and the law should now recognise the constitutional and political reality: that decisions about whether to hold a referendum on Scotland's constitutional future are for the Scottish Parliament to make as the democratic voice of Scotland. Council instructs the Chief Executive to write to the Prime Minister to (a) express its alarm at the unacceptable UK budget delay and (b) to demand that they agree the transfer of power that would put beyond doubt the Scottish Parliament's right to legislate for a referendum on independence as outlined in the Scottish Government's paper "Scotland's Right to Choose: Putting Scotland's Future in Scotland's Hands"." Help Icon

This is the list of documents available for the submission By Councillor Susan Aitken:- "Scotland's right to choose. Council notes the outcome of the 2019 UK general election, in which all of Glasgow's MPs and a majority of Scotland's MPs were returned on a manifesto that noted the Scottish Government's mandate to offer the people of Scotland the right to choose their own future in a new referendum on becoming an independent country. Council recognises that Glasgow wholeheartedly rejected ruthless Conservative austerity and isolationism which threatens jobs, sustainability and wellbeing and regards that the new Conservative Government's recklessness decision to delay its budget until 11th March is another example of the disregard in which it holds Scottish devolved and local government and Scottish communities. Council believes that it is a fundamental democratic principle that decisions on Scotland's future should rest with the people who live here. Council believes that the UK Government's continued refusal to acknowledge any circumstances in which the Scottish people would have the right to make a choice about their constitutional future is fundamentally undemocratic. Council further believes that both the UK Government and the law should now recognise the constitutional and political reality: that decisions about whether to hold a referendum on Scotland's constitutional future are for the Scottish Parliament to make as the democratic voice of Scotland. Council instructs the Chief Executive to write to the Prime Minister to (a) express its alarm at the unacceptable UK budget delay and (b) to demand that they agree the transfer of power that would put beyond doubt the Scottish Parliament's right to legislate for a referendum on independence as outlined in the Scottish Government's paper "Scotland's Right to Choose: Putting Scotland's Future in Scotland's Hands"." .

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