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A Labour management candidate has claimed that the UK ought to “look to Catalonia” for classes on methods to defeat Scottish nationalism.
Lisa Nandy made the feedback as she argued {that a} “social justice agenda” might beat “divisive nationalism”.
A whole lot of individuals have been harm when the Spanish authorities used force to attempt to cease the disputed independence referendum in Catalonia in 2017.
Nicola Sturgeon stated folks can be “mortified” by Ms Nandy’s remarks.
And Scotland’s solely Labour MP, Ian Murray, warned all the candidates within the social gathering’s management contest that they need to not “come as much as Scotland and speak about issues that you just’re not fairly certain what you are speaking about.”
In an interview with the BBC’s Andrew Neil Show, Ms Nandy stated that socialists internationally had been “crushed again and again” by nationalists.
She added: “We must always look outwards to different nations and different elements of the world the place they’ve needed to cope with divisive nationalism and search to find the teachings the place, in these transient moments in historical past in locations like Catalonia and Quebec, we have now managed to go and beat slender divisive nationalism with a social justice agenda.”
The Wigan MP was challenged by Neil, who put it to her that the SNP’s model of nationalism just isn’t “onerous proper” and as an alternative goes “hand in hand with social justice”.
Ms Nandy responded by arguing that it fits the SNP to maintain the argument about independence going as a result of it meant nobody in Scotland was “listening to their document, which is frankly appalling”.
And he or she stated she doesn’t need one other vote on independence as “I believe this nation has had sufficient of referendums”.
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A whole lot of individuals have been harm as Spanish police tried to cease the Catalan referendum in 2017
In a referendum on 1 October 2017, which was declared unlawful by Spain’s Constitutional Courtroom, about 90% of voters backed Catalan independence – though the vote was boycotted by most opponents of independence, and the turnout was solely 43%.
The referendum was marred by violent clashes as police used batons and fired rubber bullets in an try to forestall it going forward.
9 pro-independence Catalan leaders have been subsequently jailed for between nine and 13 years for his or her position in organising the vote, with the sentences sparking additional violent clashes between police and protestors.
In a blog post published after the interview, Ms Nandy stated that socialists in Catalonia have “for years been peacefully resisting the advance of separatists there”.
And he or she argued that “current indications counsel that their democratic efforts might properly succeed” and that there are “hopeful indicators their method of socialism and solidarity – which stands in stark distinction to the unjustified violence we noticed from the Spanish police working below the instruction of Spain’s then proper wing Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy – might but win out.”
Ms Nandy’s remarks have been raised within the Scottish Parliament on Thursday, with Ms Sturgeon saying that she assumed the Labour MP “hasn’t paid consideration to what has truly occurred in Catalonia in current occasions”.
The primary minister added: “If she had, she would certainly not have recommended that there are any constructive classes in any respect to be realized from that.
“Maybe Lisa Nandy ought to take the chance to make clear precisely what she did imply, recognise the priority that it has induced, and maybe even apologise for that.”
In the meantime, Mr Murray indicated his displeasure at Ms Nandy’s intervention as he formally launched his marketing campaign for the social gathering’s deputy management.
The Edinburgh South MP instructed journalists: “I say this to all management and deputy management candidates: Please do not come as much as Scotland and speak about issues that you just’re not fairly certain what you are speaking about.”
Ms Nandy is certainly one of 5 candidates who stay within the contest to interchange Jeremy Corbyn as Labour chief, with the winner being introduced on four April.