Nicola Sturgeon
Posted on 02/26/2017 5:10:22 PM PST by Helicondelta
From the Sunday Times:
Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May are heading for a showdown over who has the right to call another independence referendum and when it should be held.
As the prime minister prepares to head north to speak at the Scottish Conservative conference this week, it has emerged that the SNP government raised the issue of a second referendum at a private meeting with her administration on Wednesday.
The first minister looks set to call a vote by the Scottish parliament — following next month’s SNP conference and triggering of article 50 — to strengthen her mandate to stage a second referendum. At her party conference, Sturgeon is expected to call for Holyrood to have the right to call a referendum.
While there has been no official statement from UK officials in this late hour on Sunday, the prospect of even more politcal chaos, not to mention the sudden possibility of Scotland declaring independence has sent cable into a tailspin, with sterling plunging 70 pips in thin trade, sliding below 1.24 on the news.
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Seems to be driven by Brexit.
Scotland not in favor of leaving the EU, but will be taken out with Britain when Britain goes unless Scotland splits.
Their oil reserves are partitioned in London.
Sturgeon is bluffing, she is not going to call another referendum.
As Brexit showed you should never call a referendum the result of which you are not sure of in advance and a second “No” vote would kill the idea of Scottish independence for two generations.
The Scots people certainly voted against Brexit but that does not make them keen on swapping the partner they have been with for nigh on 400 years for a mixed bag of nations that might not even exist as a coherent unit in 10 years time.
If Sturgeon were to call a referendum she would have to get a whole heap of ducks in a line first, Scotland’s debt/GDP ratio would preclude it from euro membership, there would be no guarantee that the Spanish, who are very nervous about regional independence movements, would not veto Scotland’s membership of the EU.
A hard border with England would be a logistical and economic nightmare for Scotland, meanwhile as she negotiates these elements the EU descends info further chaos and the sky does not fall in on post-Brexit Britain.
There is no doubt a lot of anger and hurt national self-consciousness among the Scots as they realise that their population of 5 million people means that they are largely an irrelevance when it comes to deciding the fate of the remaining 65 million people in the UK but these are the facts of life.
The UK is leaving the EU and for all their huffing and puffing the Scots and Northern Irish are going with them.
“What does Scotland have or produce”
Heroin addicts.
I'm not familiar with that use of the word, 'partitioned'.
Does it mean that part of the North Sea oil reserves are recognized as belonging to Scotland, while the rest belong to England?
Glas-Go
Caleavedonia
Priceless, mis amigo!
No, I meant that the oil revenue is partitioned in London.
If they break away, they will do fine, like Norway.
The remaining parts of the UK would move drastically to the right if it could off-load all the leftists in Scotland. Scotland can do its own thing without the English, which would be the more democratic and representative step anyway (hey, if Scots love the EU, that’s their choice). Without trying to oppose the more right-leaning English all the time, even Scotland might vary its politics more and become more conservative.
If it happens, I wonder if we can’t use that to inspire the California independence movement, so we too can lurch solidly rightwards as a country...
Haggis
Europe can’t get different kinds of white people to like each other but they want to turn their countries into third world havens.
Here it is in a nutshell.
Scotland has some oil, produces some timber, some ag products like barley and sheep and cattle. Thats about it.
The highlands do not like the English and the Lowlands would most likely break away and stay with England.
It all stems back to the 45 when they stomped the Scots. That was all well, but the dam English then went on a killing spree to end all. That and the Highland clearances really is the reason for this.
Like the Irish, the Scots NEVER forget. They are the most unruly bunch and now, they are extreme socialists for the most part-depends on the region of course.
Scots would be wise to sit back and watch the French Elections before voting to stick with the EU.
first of all,
I think the GB Pound is headed down, whatever.
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if Scotland leaves,
politics in London become
a lot more manageable for the Conservatives.
Haggis
I would think it would make it go up.
Wow, less than the population of metro Atlanta, where I live. But comparable.
You are correct. The hearts blood of Scotland and Ireland are here in the good old USA.
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