What Is The Wee Un On Aboot?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-43209765/nicola-sturgeon-rejects-offer-in-brexit-devolution-row
Can someone tell wee jimmy that Westminster does not need the Scottish "parliament"'s approval.

[Hopkirk]

They are the third largest party in Westminster

[ToraToraTora]

Hoppy she's talking about the Scottish "parliament" .

[youngmafbog]

Dont you find it odd that someone who advocates splitting from the UK objects to the UK splitting from the EU?

You would think as a lover of splits she would be all for it!

She is of course delusional.

[maggiebee]

Well TTT it is the Scottish parliament - no need to used inverted commas. What else would you call it other than by its proper name.

[youngmafbog]

Is this meant to be in Insurance ?

[ToraToraTora]

yes maggie but the UK parliament does not need their permission.

[Jackdaw33]

I fail to understand the SNP. They would gladly free themselves from the shackles of Westminster but happily put on the more iron shackles of Brussels. Crazy.

[albaqwerty]

SNP stands for the Scottish Nut Party.

[Voltage]

are you a member Albs lol

[albaqwerty]

pmsl, I'm completely, utterly independent lol

[New Judge]

"Ms Sturgeon told the Today programme it was "very likely" Scottish parliament will not give consent for the EU Withdrawal Bill unless the UK government changes its mind."

Fortunately the UK government does not need the consent of the Scottish Parliament for its EU Withdrawal Bill. The Bill withdraws the entire UK from the EU and the notion that a quasi-parish council can obstruct that process is fanciful. This was made quite clear when the Supreme Court dealt with the legal challenge to the Brexit process brought by Gina Miller.

The continued "delusions of grandeur" suffered by the minority constituents of the UK are a constant irritation. But it was always going to be so, Mr Blair’s ridiculous devolution arrangements were always going to cause far more problems that they solved which anyone with half a brain could foresee. The idea that small constituencies representing tiny minorities of the UK population should enjoy privileges not available to the majority was always going to cause division. Now we see the most important constitutional changes the UK has seen for decades bound up in red tape cause by those devolution arrangements.

The best thing the Scots can do is to hold a second referendum on independence. If they choose to split from the UK, good luck and goodbye. If they choose to remain their devolution arrangements should allow them to decide which day to empty their dustbins but in everything else they should be bound by the decisions of the Westminster Parliament.

[albaqwerty]

^^ agree.
He makes a lot of sense does NJ :-D

[Jackdaw33]

//...a quasi-parish council \\

Like it !

[ToraToraTora]

ED this seems to have got into insurance, can you move to news, thanks

[murraymints]

Scotland has already voted... Nicola is spouting her own doctrine again...she is fast losing ground up here and is trying to big up herself in an effort to rouse up the extremists again... I doubt it will be too long before she finds a knife in the back...

[Jackdaw33]

I notice that the fat fish-face seems to have faded from the scene since he lost his seat last June. To the Tories as well. Oh, the delicious irony.

[Hopkirk]

Alex Salmond has his own show on the talk radio station LBC