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Scottish nationals have two supra-national citizenships. One is UK citizenship, the second is EU citizenship. In democratic referenda over the past two years, Scots have voted clearly to retain both citizenships.
Unfortunately it is not possible to respect both democratic decisions of the Scottish people, due to a vote by other nationalities. So where you have democratic decisions which cannot both be implemented, which does democracy demand should take precedence?
It is not a simple question. The vote to retain EU citizenship was more recent and carried a much larger majority than the earlier vote. In addition it was made crystal clear during the campaign that it may require the overturning of the earlier vote. So on these grounds I believe the most recent vote must, as an exercise in democracy, have precedence.
In these circumstances the announcement by the First Minister that she is initiating the procedure on a new referendum for Scottish independence from the UK, in order to retain Scottish membership of the EU, is a sensible step.
Source: Craig Murray
Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010.
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Saturday June 25 2016, @03:21PM
Fact is, if you had had the balls to vote out in the first place we wouldn't all be where we are now. The first IndyRef was the test bed for project fear, including the involvement of EU officials -
"the leavers have no plan"
"the leave figures are all wrong"
"it's a big scary leap into the dark"
And it worked on the you (twice). So our f***wit politicians thought if it works on the guys who stomp up freezing mountains in skirts with no underwear how could it not work on the lily-livered english, but just to be sure we'll up the fear a bit more, throw in some world war three, decline and fall of western civilization, can't possibly fail...
Now you (or some of you) say
"er, actually we've found our balls and we want to have another go at taking that leap through the other door we opened before but then didn't go through because it was too scary"
Oh no, you started this game of opening exit doors, it's your fault we opened this door, your fault the politicians and eurocrats thought that they could safely ask us if we really wanted to leave because we'd bottle it, and now we've taken a collective decision to go through, so you are bloody well coming with us.