Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Tuesday 28 June 2022
Once In A Generation
The Parliament of the United Kingdom should enact primary legislation to rule out any referendum on Scottish independence before 18th September 2044, 30 years after the last one.
Parliament cannot bind its successors, but this would make the point.
How come the people of Northern Ireland get a referendum on their destiny every seven years from when the first referendum is triggered by the Secretary of State? At least the Scottish People never engaged in political violence.
We have never needed you in Parliament more.
ReplyDeleteLet's do it.
DeleteHow come the people of Northern Ireland get a referendum on their destiny every seven years from when the first referendum is triggered by the Secretary of State? At least the Scottish People never engaged in political violence.
ReplyDeleteThey don't. There has never been one of those.
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