Craig Murray: London Will Never Give Independence – We Must Take It (20 Dec 2019)

London Will Never Give Independence 

– We Must Take It

by Craig Murray (20 Dec 2019)

Yesterday the Scottish Government published “Scotland’s Right to Choose", its long heralded paper on the path to a new Independence referendum. It is a document riven by a basic intellectual flaw. It sets out in detail, and with helpful annexes, that Scotland is a historic nation with the absolute and inalienable right of self-determination, and that sovereignty lies not in the Westminster parliament but with the Scottish people.

It then contradicts all of this truth by affirming, at length, in detail, and entirely without reservation, that Scotland can only hold a legitimate Independence referendum if the Westminster Parliament devolves the power to do so under Section 30.

Both propositions cannot be true. Scotland cannot be a nation with the right of self-determination, and at the same time require the permission of somebody else to exercise that self-determination.

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See also youtube of First Minister’s presentation:

Nicola Sturgeon | Statement on Scotland's Right to Choose (19/12/2019)