Of course it is the most popular option in Scotland. Unlike either independence or the status quo, it means whatever the person answering the question wants it to mean.
People might be mistaken as to what either independence or the status quo means, but that just makes them wrong. They cannot be wrong about "devolution max".
And that is why the whole concept is utter rubbish.
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Exactly. It's a yes-no question, independence or not.
ReplyDeleteWho cares what you think?
ReplyDeleteWhat is wrong with Scotland renegotiating its membership of the UK with the view to the repatriation of powers?
Ming Campbell was on tv yesterday calling for two rounds of referenda. One on independence and if that fails, then a referendum on the issue of more autonomy which he would campaign on yes. Unlike you, he is in government.
More Mystic Mog predictions I think from you: no SNP victory in 2007, no SNP government in 2007 as the unionist parties will keep them out of power, no more devolution, Alex Salmond is finished from 2009-2011, no SNP victory in 2011-----.
Keep it up!
Touched a raw nerve, I see. There is no such thing as "devolution max" and, what is more, you and your party wouldn't want it if there were. Would you...?
ReplyDelete"Renegotiation", indeed! You can't renegotiate membership of the EU, and you can't renegotiate membership of the UK. They are package deals. The British Parliament can, however, pass legislation overriding EU law (it has never done so, but it can), and can legislate to bind the actions of British Ministers when they legislate at EU level (likewise).
Whereas the body at Holyrood cannot legislate to override the Parliament of the United Kingdom; you voted for that if you voted Yes to devolution, and if you didn't agree with it, then you should have voted No. And of course there is not, nor ever will be, anything at level which remotely resembles the Council of Ministers.
Oh, and I don't think that you could come up with a better example of someone whom no one has ever asked about anything than Ming Campbell.
ReplyDelete"Whereas the body at Holyrood cannot legislate to override the Parliament of the United Kingdom; you voted for that if you voted Yes to devolution, and if you didn't agree with it, then you should have voted No. And of course there is not, nor ever will be, anything at level which remotely resembles the Council of Ministers."
ReplyDeleteLike the delegates of the state legislatures of the 13 colonies sitting as the United States in Congress I suppose.
Colonel Blimp of County Durham. Marching in his imperial jackboots over a map of the world from the confines of his bedroom - that is you sir!
You've finally lost it.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the American rebels, the least taxed people in any comparable place on earth, still thought that they were hard done by. So there is a bit of a comparison.
But honestly, read that last one over again, and you will see that it is time for a lie down.