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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 Pax on Thursday July 07 2016, @06:21PM
Really? then explain the riots when the act of the union was passed? they happened in Edinburgh,Glasgow,ayr,Paisley, Kirckaldy, Dunfermline,Aberdeen,Dumfries .. which is to say.. all over Scotland.. then there were the Jacobite rebellions... oh and the 1820 radical risings and more..... to say Scotland went willingly into the union of the parliaments if a stretch at best and disingenuous at worst.
Into the union of the crowns.. yes.. that was King James... however even with the union of the parliaments , Scotland still retains it's own separate and distinct legal system.. still a country but without sovereign status.. this was not wanted by the populace however after the Darrien scheme's failure partly due to shit choice of trading goods and mainly down the English privateers(govt approved pirated who gave a commission back to the crown of their plundered goods) ,Scotland's lords,barons.. land owners were kinda low on funds, and as they served as the parliamentarians.. open to bribery.. which happened and is well documented.
The towns and burghs weren't that badly off financially but the landowners sold out for greed or in the words immortalised by Scotland's national bard... Robert burns "we were bought and sold for English gold, Such a parcel of rouges in a nation"
attitudes like that are part of why we want to fuck off to be quite frank.