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Due to COVID-19 restrictions, no audience members were present in the room and the panel was socially estranged. Instead, Edinburgh residents asked questions via a video link.
The panelists were discussing a poll published earlier this week that found record levels of support for Scottish independence.
A STV / Ipsos MORI poll found that 58 percent of Scots wanted to leave Britain, compared with 42 percent who opposed.
However, Susan, a member of the Edinburgh audience, urged politicians to focus on the coronavirus epidemic.
She said: “I would like to know who is requesting all these opinion polls right now.
“The UK is currently facing an economic and health crisis of epic proportions and surely constitutional issues are simply utter irrelevance at the moment, can’t we just focus on what really matters at the moment as a UK.”
In 2014 Scotland voted to remain part of the UK with 55% of the vote compared to 45%.
Before that poll, Ms. Sturgeon said it would be a “once in a lifetime opportunity.”
However, a few years later, the nationalist politician demanded another referendum.
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Surgeon’s push for a second referendum was also criticized on Question Time by Ian Wood, a Scottish businessman and philanthropist.
He argued: “We had a referendum five years ago, it is an incredibly important question, we should not address it again.
“What has gone completely wrong in the last two or three years is that we have a Scottish government that is generally antagonistic and negative about a whole range of things that could happen with the UK and Scotland working together.
“We don’t have a decentralized government that only deals with Scotland at all.
“We have a decentralized government that is focused on independence.”
Recently, the SNP government introduced a new wave of coronavirus restrictions for parts of Scotland.
Pubs and bars in the densely populated central belt are required to close unless they also serve food.
Also on the panel was Douglas Ross, leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, who criticized the SNP’s record.
He commented: “Nicola Sturgeon is a very good communicator.
“She is in Scotland every day doing the daily briefings but when it comes to the details we still have the highest R rate in the whole of the UK, the highest percentage of nursing home deaths anywhere in the world. United Kingdom, one of the highest per capita mortality rates in Europe “.
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