[St Charles Owl]

I meant to add to my comments to Ritchie that one of the most glaring differences between the EU and this disunited Kingdom/union is the fact the EU would not turn on any of its members and dismiss a formal intention of testing whether that member nation wishes to leave the EU through a referendum vote!!! None of this unconstitutional bullshit such as "now is not the time" or a blatant, arrogant "you are not getting a referendum because my fascist govt says so and you can f### off and 'get back in your box' Scotland and the Scottish people/voters who want it" Now that is a huge difference between respect/pragmatic association and downright disrespect bordering on dictatorship towards a so called "equal member" of a union of devolved countries!!!????

Thats not wholly true though is it?? The EU has no jurisdiction over the internal politics of any of its members, especially with regards to referendum regarding membership, in fact its one of the reasons the EU stayed out of the Brexit referendum. And lets not forget they haven't exactly "turned on" Spain with regards to Catalan and its push for independence, in fact they have backed Spain to be able to do what it feels is right while sitting on the fence and talking about people's rights to self-determination - just words, no actions. And so far the UK government has allowed a Scottish Independence referendum in 2014, I get you want another one but the current government is not allowing it and the SNP are not pushing for a decision yet either so its a bit of a moot issue anyway.