Can you imagine the brexiter reaction if anyone in Brussels had said no, you can’t have a referendum? Fair’s fair now, let’s be serious. Scotland has a right to choose or else the UK cannot possibly be sustained.
No. Because holding a constituional referendum is a reserved power as well you know. Article 50 reserved it to the UK. Scotland Act reserves it to the UK. Alyn also knows this perfectly well. As I say, it's an industry now, easy jobs from bitter slogans.
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Repeating legal aspects does not change in particular the moral or deeper argument behind justifying a second referendum. If somewhere else in the world you justified resistance to self determination “because the parent government said so” that wouldn’t be seen as justification
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Ok so here it is. Nation states are legal. Committments to human rights, democracy, and freedom are underpinned by the rule of law. Actually very few countries prospered after an aggressive succession, precisely because of foundation of that state on selective respect of the law
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