Will Nicola have another shot?

deeireland · 25 June 2016 20:35

Buzzer:

Jazzandy:
It’s not up to Nicola. Westminster has to call a referendum and I believe the last one was billed as ‘once in a generation’. Simples!

That’s it then its not happening and she will grow old and her ■■■■■ will heal over and hopefully her mouth before that.

There’s something ■■■■ about her I think !
Maybe it’s because I hadn’t seen the wife in a 9 days.
Edit.thought you meant her faluga
Edit. A ■■■■■ in Ireland is a faluga.
Edit .a faluga in Ireland is a fanny

shugg · 25 June 2016 22:32

How would it be if ■■? we had an other referendum and she didn`t win she would consider her position and go , which she should have done the last time . As a proud Scotsman and an even prouder Brit I have yet to meet a fellow Scot who likes her ,there are time when I think she is about to take over the whole country .

bewick · 26 June 2016 13:57

I’ve just read in the MOS that Brussels has told Nicola to go and “■■■■ up her kilt” as there is no way that they will or can allow an area of an EU member country to remain in the EU when that member State leaves and if, a big if, Scotland did gain Independence it would have had accept the Euro and a "hard " border with England and, of course, as the article suggests She will have to accept being told what she can and can’t do by the EU, the very thing She is trying to get out from under by wanting independence from the UK, If I were a Scotsman I know which side I would prefer my bread to buttered on and it wouldn’t be the side of the EU !! But then both the Southern Irish and the Scots ( in the main) will go against anything the English propose even if it means cutting their noses off, which is sad but a reality and Nicola is going down this road so good riddance to her. Cheers Bewick.

buzzer · 26 June 2016 14:13

As someone said to me this morning, maybe the English should have a referendum vote on as to weather we want the Scots or not and get rid of them with no further monetary assistance from Whithall rather than let them have a vote again, fair idea I reckon Buzzer.

bewick · 26 June 2016 15:05

Buzzer:
As someone said to me this morning, maybe the English should have a referendum vote on as to weather we want the Scots or not and get rid of them with no further monetary assistance from Whithall rather than let them have a vote again, fair idea I reckon Buzzer.

Hear hear ! bring it on ! Cheers Bewick.

blue_estate · 26 June 2016 17:18

Look at what rubbish she come out with now

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told the BBC that Holyrood could try to block the UK’s exit from the EU.

She was speaking following a referendum on Thursday which saw Britain vote by 52% to 48% to leave Europe.

However, in Scotland the picture was different with 62% backing Remain and 38% wanting to go.

SNP leader Ms Sturgeon said that “of course” she would ask MSPs to refuse to give their “legislative consent”.
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However, Scottish Secretary David Mundell said he “personally” did not believe that Scotland could block Brexit.

In an interview with the BBC’s Sunday Politics Scotland programme Ms Sturgeon was asked what the Scottish Parliament would do now.

Ms Sturgeon, whose party has 63 of the 129 Holyrood seats, said: "The issue you are talking about is would there have to be a legislative consent motion or motions for the legislation that extricates the UK from the European Union?

“Looking at it from a logical perspective, I find it hard to believe that there wouldn’t be that requirement - I suspect that the UK government will take a very different view on that and we’ll have to see where that discussion ends up.”

Could Scotland block Brexit?

By BBC Scotland’s political editor Brian Taylor

I think Holyrood blocking Brexit is unlikely in that the power arises because the Scottish Parliament has to implement European legislation.

It is not a power that arises with regard to the things that matter, which is the single market and the EU treaties.

I also think that politically there would be a huge resentment from Westminster and England.

If, for example, Scotland had voted “Yes” to independence in 2014 and the Westminster parliament used the blocking mechanism to stop that, one can understand the anger in that regard.

It is a possible political scenario, but in terms of it being a likely political scenario, I think not.

When Ms Sturgeon was asked by presenter Gordon Brewer whether she would consider asking the parliament not to back such a motion of legislative consent she replied “of course”.

She added: “If the Scottish Parliament was judging this on the basis of what’s right for Scotland then the option of saying look we’re not to vote for something that’s against Scotland’s interest, of course that’s got to be on the table.”

David Mundell
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David Mundell: ‘We have to respect the result on Thursday’

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Conservative MP Mr Mundell, who also spoke to the Sunday Politics Scotland programme, said: “We have to respect the result on Thursday, even if we don’t like it - it was a UK wide vote - it was a vote by people across the UK.”

Asked about the possibility of Scotland stopping Brexit, he said: "What we need to see is the legal mechanism that we go through to get to a situation of the UK leaving.

“I personally don’t believe the Scottish Parliament is in position to block Brexit, but I haven’t seen the legal documentation that you refer to in your interview with Nicola [Sturgeon].”

Following the programme, constitutional law expert and Conservative MSP Adam Tomkins tweeted that Holyrood had no power to veto the UK’s withdrawal.

Mr Tomkins - who backed the Remain side of the referendum campaign - said that while Holyrood had the power to withhold consent, that was not the same as blocking.

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Earlier on Sunday, Ms Sturgeon said that she and her colleagues would begin talking to Brussels officials next week about Scotland remaining in the EU.

The day after the full result was known, the Scottish leader confirmed that a second Scottish independence referendum was back on the table.

In September 2014, people in Scotland voted by 55% to 45% to stay a part of the UK.

Following the UK’s decision on 23 June to leave the EU, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced his intention to resign and a number of Labour shadow cabinet members have quit - with more resignations expected - in protest at Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership over the EU referendum.

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