With COP 26 now firmly in the rear view mirror of our politician’s electric cars, fed as often as not by nuclear and gas-generated power, our media can begin to turn once again to our immediate concerns. Those inconvenient but entirely predictable matters like A&E or ambulance waiting times that impact us right now. The SNP failures we are already feeling the pain, paying the price and waiting in ever growing queues.
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To sum up, the accused was allowed to deflect, distract and deceive (or alternatively reveal downright ignorance of facts or process) and all because of the incompetence of the prosecution’s advocates’ strategy from the get-go.
Of course the prosecution sees it differently. The Scottish Conservative leadership will claim they halted the Sturgeon juggernaut and deprived the SNP of a mandate to hold a second referendum. Well, only if you accept the Ross-Davidson definition of how a mandate might be obtained.
The Scottish government has no legal competency in holding a referendum that can force a larger body (of which it forms only eight per cent) to allow it to secede.
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