People’s Right to Choose - Respecting Scotland’s Democratic Mandate

As an amendment to motion S6M-07429 in the name of Angus Robertson (People’s Right to Choose - Respecting Scotland’s Democratic Mandate), leave out from “; believes that” to end and insert “, as expressed in the referendum on 18 September 2014; believes that the Scottish Government must give priority to resolving the crisis in the NHS, which is having a hugely negative impact on staff and patients alike, with unprecedented treatment backlogs and BMA Scotland warning that patient safety is “at risk every day” in emergency departments; further believes that Scottish Government time must be further dedicated to resolving the ongoing disputes with nurses and teachers, providing more help with the cost of living crisis, ensuring councils are able to provide essential services, implementing proper funding and services for long COVID patients, closing the poverty-related attainment gap and delivering on Scotland’s net zero targets; condemns the fact that parliamentary time has been used to promote party political wants over what the country needs, and calls on the Scottish Government to stop work on any planning for a future independence referendum, in order to redirect time and money to tackling the urgent problems that Scotland faces today.”