Our current efforts are simply doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Step one is mobilising the people behind the parliament’s decision and popular campaigning to drive public opinion to unassailable levels.
Let’s just remind ourselves: Scotland is not a state, the UK is. Scotland does not have an army, the UK does. Scotland does not have bank reserves, the UK does. If anyone is seriously thinking that we can just win a majority at an election and then start running an independent country, they’d better get their thinking caps on to work out how we can succeed where the Catalans did not.
A better strategy would be to cast the 2029 election as a contest between the rights of the people of Scotland, and those who would deny them. Build a broad coalition of parties and independents behind the Right to Decide and run out of town every parliamentary representative who stands in the way.
That way we could recreate the results of 2015 but with a bigger mandate than 49%. And rather than those numbers being a consolation prize after losing in a mass referendum, they would be explicitly standing behind a demand for a new one.