The European Movement in Scotland has repeated it’s call for a second EU referendum.
David Clarke, Vice-Chair of leading pro-EU campaign group, the European Movement in Scotland, said: “The European Movement in Scotland (EMiS) welcomes the fact that Scotland has voted decisively in favour of pro-EU/Remain parties in the European Parliament elections.
“It now urges the UK government and MPs in Westminster to take Scotland’s interests and wishes more fully into account during negotiations with Brussels and to organise a second referendum on EU membership as the only way to end the three-year-old Brexit impasse.
“EMiS is delighted that outright ‘no deal’ parties, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party and UKIP, mustered just 16.6% of the vote in Scotland while pro-Peoples Vote parties trounced them with 61.9%.
“The Brexit Party won 31.6% in the UK but less than half of that in Scotland where it scored 14.8% and won just one of its overall 29 seats. Four Scottish MEPs – Alyn Smith, Christian Allard and Aileen McLeod of the SNP and Liberal Democrat Sheila Ritchie – back the positions we at EMiS have consistently promoted over the years.
“Scottish Labour saw its vote virtually halve to just 9.3%, its worst result ever – a direct consequence of its UK leadership’s equivocation over the EU and, above all, a second referendum. This has been acknowledged by David Martin who lost his seat after 35 years and has been a long-standing friend of this movement.
“We therefore call upon UK Labour and the Scottish Labour Party to reverse their stance so far and to openly demand a Peoples Vote, with the option of Remain on the ballot paper.
“We also urge Ruth Davidson and the Scottish Conservatives, who won just 11.6% of votes, to honour the clear message from Scottish voters and endorse a second referendum.”
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