{"id":1237,"date":"2016-10-20T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:43:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:43:27","slug":"second-go-for-scottish-independence-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Second Go for Scottish Independence Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scottish Government isn&#8217;t taking no for an answer and has published a draft bill for a second&nbsp;independence vote&nbsp;in response to&nbsp;the Brexit result (majority of Scots voters voted to Remain in the EU).&nbsp;First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, announced that she intends to hold a new poll only two years after the narrowly lost YES vote in 2014.&nbsp;The eight-page bill sets out rules for the campaign and conduct of the poll&nbsp;and how votes are to be&nbsp;counted. 16 and 17 year olds&nbsp;plus EU citizens in Scotland will be able to vote. [&#8220;Scottish independence: draft bill published on second referendum&#8221; by Libby Brooks, The Guardian online, 20 October 2016 &#8211; link below]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2016\/oct\/20\/second-scottish-independence-referendum-bill-published\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Government isn&#8217;t taking no for an answer and has published a draft bill for a second&nbsp;independence vote&nbsp;in response to&nbsp;the Brexit result (majority of Scots voters voted to Remain in the EU).&nbsp;First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, announced that she intends&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16","wpcat-16-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}