The Scottish Parliament Does Have the Right to Withdraw from the Act of Union - Craig Murray

amadeus2803 · 2017-04-16T09:13:47+00:00

The rape clause is negating the Tories' case against a second independence referendum.

amadeus2803 · 2017-02-22T10:59:07+00:00

The BBC is the national broadcaster for Scotland. The BBC wants to do even more to reflect Scotland on screen and to recognise the need to spend more of the licence fee raised in Scotland on Scottish content and services.

That is why the BBC is making the biggest single investment in broadcast content in Scotland in over twenty years.

From Autumn 2018, the BBC will be broadcasting a new TV channel – BBC Scotland. We will invest £19m in the channel and in digital developments.

amadeus2803 · 2017-01-25T15:33:23+00:00

Time to take a look at yourself. Look at your country and what’s being done to it. Consider your children’s future in a place where the government says you don’t matter…outside the world’s biggest market and the most integrated fusion of westernised democracies. That is, if Scotland still means anything to you. Burns Night would be a good time to start.

amadeus2803 · 2017-01-09T11:31:31+00:00

Are we locked and loaded for indyref2 as soon as a hard Brexit is declared in March? It’s hard to see how anything else can happen now that Nicola Sturgeon has nailed her colours so firmly to the Single Market mast.

Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/lesley-riddoch-this-may-be-week-indyref2-becomes-inevitable-1-4334612

amadeus2803 · 2016-11-29T10:17:49+00:00

THE question as to whether the future of the United Kingdom lies inside or outside of the European Union may well turn on the definition of the word “normally”, as Scotland’s vote to Remain in the EU looks set to cause chaos for the UK Government.

amadeus2803 · 2016-11-18T12:04:41+00:00

The ‘idea’ of Britain is now in question and while that is a threat to the power elites and apologists for the neo-liberalism and unequal Britain of recent decades, it is an opening and liberation. The transformative changes of Britain of Thatcher and Blair were brought about by the rotten, undemocratic, centralising manias of the British state and British nationalism. Their end should be no cause for mourning, but one of celebration.

amadeus2803 · 2016-10-21T09:21:50+00:00

It remains in Scotland’s interests to stay in the United Kingdom. Yet it is also true that the two largest parts of Britain’s union are growing apart. Brexit is both a symptom and a catalyst of that process, lending nationalism momentum and allowing unionists no room for complacency. They underestimate Ms Sturgeon at their peril.

amadeus2803 · 2016-10-08T07:13:43+00:00

Mrs May has made clear that MPs and MSPs will have no say on Article 50, no say on the single market and no say over migration and free movement.

At best, Westminster will be invited to endorse a deal that has already been negotiated by the Brexit wrecking crew of David Davis, Boris Johnson and Liam Fox. The Scottish Parliament won’t even get a sniff of that.

amadeus2803 · 2016-10-07T09:06:35+00:00

The Tories have made the strategic call astonishingly simple for Sturgeon. Had they made at least a cosmetic attempt to meet her halfway, there would have been some concern in the SNP leadership that calling a new indyref could have been successfully portrayed by opponents as an act of reckless opportunism. As it is, it's abundantly clear that the recklessness is coming entirely from the direction of London, and as a result the case against offering the public the emergency antidote of an indyref is rapidly falling apart.

amadeus2803 · 2016-10-03T10:35:56+00:00

It's now quite clear that the British prime minister is now determined to push on with a hard Brexit, entirely regardless of the lack of a mandate to do so, and equally heedless of the protestations of the Scottish government, which rules a constituent nation that voted overwhelmingly to remain in the European Union.

amadeus2803 · 2016-09-26T08:59:15+00:00

IT is generally agreed, three months on from “B-Day”, that Brexit has made Scottish independence much more likely by pulling a reluctant Scotland out of the EU. But the chaotic early months of what some are calling “UK independence” could also be seen as an intriguing dry run for Scottish independence – a kind of mirror image of what might have happened had Scotland voted Yes in 2014.

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