Urquhart on referendum

HIGHLANDS and islands list SNP MSP Jean Urquhart has urged people in Shetland to actively join the debate over Scottish independence.

Welcoming first minister Alex Salmond’s announcement that an independence referendum will be held in autumn 2014, she said that holding it any sooner would deny people the right to consider the importance of constitutional change properly.

“It is also right that 16 and 17 year olds should be allowed to vote in the referendum,” she said.

“The SNP has long believed that people who are entitled by law to work full time, get married and pay taxes should have a say in how their country is run and in the future of that country.”

Mrs Urquhart, who came third in the vote for Shetland’s seat at Holyrood last May, will be in the isles this weekend to participate in the Alting debate on the pros and cons of independence, to held at the Tingwall primary school, on Saturday evening.

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