Scotland has voted NO to stay in the United Kingdom after voters decisively rejected independence. But I am not shocked and saw this coming…
As Peter Hitchens recently wrote “the poor Scots are threatened with currency collapse, bankruptcy, irrelevance and isolation” and for such bad tactics, the only reasonable real option that the Scots had in my estimation is a NO vote.
Who would have the balls to vote YES in the face of all these threats and surely, if the UK holds a referendum over its EU membership, I am sure the EU will employ this ridiculous tactics which works.
Currently, results in from all 32 council areas had the “No” side winning with 2,001,926 votes over 1,617,989 for “Yes”.
Following this, Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond has called for unity and urged the unionist parties to deliver on more powers and UK Prime Minister David Cameron has come out to say, he was delighted the UK would remain together and said the commitments on extra powers would be honoured.
Mr Cameron said the three main unionist parties at Westminster would now follow through with their pledge of more powers for the Scottish Parliament.
Also, he announced that Lord Smith of Kelvin, who led Glasgow’s staging of the Commonwealth Games, would oversee the process to take forward the commitments, with new powers over tax, spending and welfare to be agreed by November, and draft legislation published by January.
So it is not all bad for the Scots as they stand to make good gains from this referendum, even though to me, the tactics used by the UK and other NO supporting States were pretty undemocratic…
This post was published on September 19, 2014 9:49 AM
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