This week's Community Column is written by Ross Greer, Green Party MSP for the West of Scotland.

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Last week Holyrood supported the Scottish Government seeking what’s known as a Section 30 Order.

This would give us the temporary power to hold a referendum.

It’s a step that is clearly needed if we’re to give Scottish voters a choice about their own future.

The Tories are denying reality when they say there is no mandate for asking for this power.

There is clearly a pro-independence majority in the Scottish Parliament and Green MSPs have always supported grassroots democracy; it’s one of the founding principles of our movement.

In a situation where the votes of 2014 and 2016 cannot both be delivered, it is right that the people – and not a government they did not elect – choose where we go from here.

Following the devastating Brexit vote last June, Scottish Greens consistently called for Scotland's Remain vote to be respected.

By contrast, the Tories have been nothing short of reckless and destructive in their actions since. They have taken a Leave vote across the UK, won on no clear prospectus, as a mandate for ripping us out of the Single Market, which even Leave campaigners promised not to do and which flies directly in the face of the manifesto they were elected on in 2015.

And Labour’s opposition hasn’t been worth the name.

Even when amendments to protect the millions of citizens from the rest of Europe currently living here were stripped away, they voted through the Article 50 bill.

For Jeremy Corbyn to announce that the ‘real fight starts now’ after his party rolled over to a Hard Right Tory agenda is frankly pathetic.

It's clear that not everyone who voted No in 2014 is willing to see Scotland dragged along with the agenda of Tory right-wingers who want to do away with workers’ rights, environmental protections and the principle of free movement.

Whilst it would be wrong to characterise every Remain vote as being tantamount to a Yes vote, it would be wrong to portray every 2014 No vote as an endorsement of what the UK is now set to become.

We believe that the people of Scotland should make this choice of two futures, not a Tory government we did not elect.

Now that government is trying to block our right to self-determination, the question for Labour and the Lib Dems is who will they stand with, Scotland’s elected parliament or the Tories at Westminster?