09-11-2016, 11:31
(This post was last modified: 09-11-2016, 12:01 by hibeejim21.)
Well if thats the deal stop telling us we are 'equal partners' in the union that WE made possible. Just be honest with the scottish people and tell em the truth.
The key point here is may has already given us 'a constitutional crisis' by first acting without consent of Parliament and then by acting against the set party pro-Brexit manifesto. Sturgeon has taken a vow to represent scotlands interests,scotland voted to stay in the EU. Whats unfolding is perfectly natural,she isn't 'grandstanding' at all,she's just doing her job.
Its got nothing to do with whats 'proportionate' either,UK politics has never been built on that. If it was the UK wouldn't have a first past the post system.
Oh and the Scottish government have employed the services of Scottish advocates to observe this case because of course it was heard in the English high court which has no jurisdiction in Scotland It seems a reasonable course of action all things considered. This decision even if overturned by the UK supreme court does not impinge on the right of a similar case being brought before the Scottish courts . Sturgeon took the oath of office before the court of session in Edinburgh not the English courts, she is along with every member of the Scottish parliament regardless of party duty bound to uphold and defend the independence of Scots law which itself recognises the primacy not of UK law but that of the EU.
Once you take that on board,you realise that when English and Welsh voters elected to leave the EU they did not vote on the sovereignty of Westminster or on the status of Scots law within the UK nor on either the act of union or the devolution settlement. The tories have not thought this through believe me.
The key point here is may has already given us 'a constitutional crisis' by first acting without consent of Parliament and then by acting against the set party pro-Brexit manifesto. Sturgeon has taken a vow to represent scotlands interests,scotland voted to stay in the EU. Whats unfolding is perfectly natural,she isn't 'grandstanding' at all,she's just doing her job.
Its got nothing to do with whats 'proportionate' either,UK politics has never been built on that. If it was the UK wouldn't have a first past the post system.
Oh and the Scottish government have employed the services of Scottish advocates to observe this case because of course it was heard in the English high court which has no jurisdiction in Scotland It seems a reasonable course of action all things considered. This decision even if overturned by the UK supreme court does not impinge on the right of a similar case being brought before the Scottish courts . Sturgeon took the oath of office before the court of session in Edinburgh not the English courts, she is along with every member of the Scottish parliament regardless of party duty bound to uphold and defend the independence of Scots law which itself recognises the primacy not of UK law but that of the EU.
Once you take that on board,you realise that when English and Welsh voters elected to leave the EU they did not vote on the sovereignty of Westminster or on the status of Scots law within the UK nor on either the act of union or the devolution settlement. The tories have not thought this through believe me.