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“You cannot hold Scotland in the union against its will”, First Minister Sturgeon reminds Boris Johnson
Johnson and his government have repeatedly said they will not give the go-ahead for another referendum on Scottish independence Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday that he could not keep Scotland in the United Kingdom against the country's will.
Johnson and his government have repeatedly said they will not give the go-ahead for another referendum on Scottish independence, but Sturgeon said after the Scottish National Party won 48 of Scotland's 59 seats in the UK parliament, her party had been given a mandate for one.
“If he thinks ... saying no is the end of the matter then he is going to find himself completely and utterly wrong,” Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.
“You cannot hold Scotland in the union against its will ... If the United Kingdom is to continue it can only be by consent. And if Boris Johnson is confident in the case for the union then he should be confident enough to make that case and allow people to decide.”
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Read all commentsIf there is another referendum, the nationalists have to give the Scottish people to decide how to end this uncertainty for ever: WHICH PARLIAMENT DO THEY WANT TO KEEP: EITHER WESTMINSTER OR HOLLYROOD? This is the real cause of permanent instability, two parliaments is obviously in this case an incompatible proposition.
Dec 17th, 2019 - 01:01 pm 0The English shouldn't allow anything else or anything less, we can't have a generator of moaning and instbility infesting our union threatening with their incompetence, demands for more funds and always talking of independence and betraying the union put in place by a Scottish King.
The Parliament in Edinburgh can't lightly expect to have a referendum every five years, Tony Blair's 1997 break up of the Union is the source of permanent instability, Scotland agreed that the last referendum was a “once in a lifetime” or in a “generation”.
This 1997 idea of a need for a useless tier of government for a small country of five million is another great disaster for the UK by the Labour Party which also disposed of the Imperial super power in 1945.
What is wrong with a councillor for local issues and and MP for national issues? Why more?
Is Sturgeon saying that 1 Scottish vote is worth five or ten (or whatever) English votes and that the English have to do what the Scots say on top of subsidizing them?
As a nation ALL the voters of that nation voted to leave the EU, without the Scottish leave vote we would have lost, so we leave and we shut up.
Damn, Livepeanuts. Threatening the Scots with direct rule by Boris and his tax-evading buddies so they can join England in miserable austerity? Are you trying to drive Scotland out of the union?
Dec 17th, 2019 - 02:27 pm 0(And it was a nominally Scottish queen who helped put the union in place.)
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