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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: 1) by khallow on Saturday June 25 2016, @04:47PM
A lot of us in Scotland were pissed off about that, people in your position, born Scot I assume, living abroad who couldn't vote yet the 'white settlers' up here (500,000+ of the fuckers) could?
What's wrong with that? You ignore a huge can of worms here. If you're opening up the vote to the outside world, then why shouldn't the whole of the UK vote? Only True Scotsmen should be allowed to vote? Who gets to decide what is a True Scotsman?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 25 2016, @05:50PM
That's easy -- 9 out of 10 Scots agree that no true Scotsman would vote for continued subjugation to London.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 25 2016, @06:22PM
..Who gets to decide what is a True Scotsman?
Not who, but what. I give you those most radical of inventions..the Birth certificate and Passport, you know, the things which details wee things like place of birth and nationality, I'm sure someone somewhere [nrscotland.gov.uk] must have this info [www.gov.uk].. The passport only comes into play for Scots living/working abroad, as a means of verifying they are still full UK nationals for the purposes of the vote (if you've given up your nationality, even partially, then you've already made your choice..)
so, not so hard.
(Score: 1) by Pax on Saturday June 25 2016, @07:29PM
NAAAH.. it's a matter for people REGISTERED TO VOTE IN SCOTLAND at the relevant time..... simple as that.