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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2016, @07:32PM
> there's an emerging meme (that I think sounds plausible) that this entire Brexit is an internal stuggle for Bojo to become PM.
Not really. He was going to be the bridge builder, reuniting the two halfs of the tory party. Graciously implementing the will of the British people when they voted to remain.
Then leading the tories into the next General Election.
Before the campaign staarted, he was mostly an EU supporter.
He has gone extremely quiet as he tries to figure out how to salvage his position after actually winning.
He is far too toxic now to reunite the Tories.