
Originally Posted by
NAE NOOKIE
"Nobody's a prisoner" ... Oh really?
There are 650 UK MPs in parliament of which 59 represent Scottish seats. Even if every Scottish seat was in the hands of the SNP, under this legislation 374 MPs from elsewhere in the UK would have to join those 59 in order to win a Scottish independence referendum vote.
Even if every MP from Wales and Ireland abstained you would still need 335 English MPs to support the 59 SNP MPs.
You pop down to the bookies mate and see what odds they would give you on a bill asking for an independence referendum getting through both the commons and the lords with that level of support required .... you would get closer odds on a double of Hibs winning the Champions league and Scotland the world cup within the next 10 years.
And I haven't even mentioned that if by some miracle ... and lets face it, it would be an honest to God miracle ... the legislation allowing a referendum did pass, that same bill will impose a 60/40 margin on a YES vote before it was accepted as a vote for independence by the UK parliament.
We aren't even talking about Westminster putting a bar on independence, we are talking about Westminster effectively preventing the people of Scotland from ever having the chance ( or the choice ) to vote on it again.
In all honesty, in spite of the fact that the source I was made aware of this bill from seems to be reliable, I'm still not convinced it isn't a joke or some sort of early April fools day prank. Because if it isn't and it gets passed into law IMO it's nothing short of colonialism minus the tanks and guns and once folk become aware of it ( I've never seen it mentioned anywhere in the media ) the backlash will be biblical.
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