London Will Never Give Independence - We Must Take It

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.
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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.

I was trying to find the right words to discuss the document.

The situation here is pretty psychotic? simile suicide? misplaced precision? cognitive dissonance?

I am frequently told that this paper is all just a cunning ploy, and that when the Tory Government rejects - as it will reject - this servile request to grant Scotland the powers to hold a referendum, the Scottish Government will go to court to say it has the right to a referendum.
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The truth is there is no route to a referendum by legal challenge in the UK courts. The UK Supreme Court has already ruled that Westminster, the "Crown in Parliament" is sovereign, that the Sewell Convention has no legal force and that any powers that the Scottish parliament has, and indeed the very existence of the Scottish Parliament, is entirely at the gift of Westminster. The clue is on the tin.[?!] It is the UK Supreme Court.

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