Johnson, Scottish independence referendum a “once in a generation” vote; Sturgeon, “we'll be back soon”

Monday, January 4th 2021 - 05:00 UTC

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Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a “once-in-a-generation” vote. Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr program, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was “a good sort of gap.” Read full article

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Boris has a point, that was the agreement in the last Scottish referendum only a handful of years ago and Salmond and Sturgeon both the Scottish fish stood side by side advertising this to their electorate from 5 million people and in front of the elelctorate of the rest of the UK from about 60 million people.
The 5 million tail should stop trying to wag the 60 million dog all the time, the little ones have come out of the EU with the rest of us so now let us get on with it and do some work, enough of referendums, we got the local elections and that is it for a long time please shut up after that for a few years.
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The UK is more than just England and “little ones”. If isn't a collaboration amongst the four nations then really what use is it?

If the UK really wants to modernise and strengthen its governance now that it has devolved some responsibilities, it should be looking at a slightly more federal structure instead of a quasi-unitary state and look at abolishing the defunct House of Lords and replacing it with a body more balanced it representing the four nations.
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