Hmmm. You say its fluff but you have not countered it all. Yes you can give sound bites, "unsustainable", "will of the people" etc etc etc but that is just hot air. Empty rhetoric. I put it to you to explain in precise detail how you will get a referendum without an SNP majority.
Let's game the scenario,
SNP MINORITY PLAY
- SNP minority and forms coalition with SGreens
- Coalition asks for Section 30
- Boris J says no
- SNP appeal to Court of Session to have Section 30 approved
- Judges refer to precedent and say no precedent for minority referendum
- Boris J spends next 5 years ripping the powers from Holyrood including undermining Judicial Review so that in 2026 the Section 30 decision can't even be challenged in court!
then
SNP UNOFFICIAL MINORITY PLAY
- SNP calls unofficial referendum
- Boris J challenges it in court and wins due to precedent that minority parties don't get referendums!
- Scot Government can't use Civil Service, instruments of Government, electoral commission etc for unofficial ballot giving it about the same status as a YouGov poll.
- End game for Indy in the short-medium-long term
or
SNP MAJORITY PLAY
- SNP majority asks for Section 30
- Then either
- a. Boris J knows he will lose in court so negotiates a referendum OR
- b. Boris J rejects Section 30, SNP refer to Court of Session and Section 30 approved
- IndyRef2 held!
As for Trident and its removal. It is would be a good thing but what you fail to see is it will be used as a mechanism to rip powers for Holyrood. Things have changed. Fisheries and the Internal Market Act shows powers devolved to Holyrood can be recovered. Both May and Johnson's Governments see Scotland as a territory not polity and that will be amplified after this election. The English are spending £50 odd billion on Trident and are not going to let a little institution like Holyrood block it when they can just tear powers away.
To me your post just tells me everything - Independence will be lost by nats undermining nats. Every vote for the SGreens is a vote against an IndyRef, to shift powers from Holyrood to Westminster and twenty more years of English Tory rule. That is what you are voting for even if you don't see it.