Queen Urges "Keep Calm" As Scotland Seeks To Block Brexit
By Tyler Durden
“If there is a way to stay in the EU, I am determined to pursue it,” proclaimed Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in an interview with Greece's To Ethnos newspaper, noting that Scottish parliament is looking into legal grounds for a new referendum on secession from UK. This confirms JPMorgan's base case that Scotland will vote for independence and institute a new currency at that point. Shortly after Sturgeon's comments, The Queen made her first post-Brexit speech (ironically in Scottish parliament) urging Britons to “stay calm and focused,” pointedly noting “real leadership requires deeper and more dispassionate thinking in turbulent times.”
A nation divided…
Whih explains why Scotland is looking into legal grounds for holding new referendum on secession from UK, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is cited as saying in interview with Greece’s To Ethnos newspaper. As Bloomberg reports,
Other means are being examined in order to block Brexit include debate and vote in Scottish parliament, which would create constitutional issue for UK.
“We are in uncharted waters,” Sturgeon says, adding that “all options are on the table”
“Scotland will continue to consider EU citizens welcome to reside and work in the country”
“If there is a way to stay in the EU, I am determined to pursue it,” first minister says, adding that she is very satisfied from her exchanges with EU officials in Brussels.
Main motive behind decision of many Scots to vote against independence was that staying part of the UK meant staying part of the EU; that motive doesn’t exist anymore, “thus creating new conditions”
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Still, as we also cautioned previously, any veto or scuttling threat may be merely Scotland clutching at straws.
Scottish Secretary and Conservative MP David Mundell 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” and then said clearly that “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].”
It is unclear what the final legal determination will be on this subject, but if somehow Scotland does succeed in scuttling a historic referendum decision by the majority of the UK population, we urge Edinburgh to build a very big and vary tall wall on its southern border that Hadrian would be proud of (ideally without waiting for Mexico, or the UK, to pay for it).
Meanwhile, as all this takes place, the UK ruling class is in a state of crisis, with both PM Cameron and Chancellor Osborne having disappeared, while the opposition Labour party is undergoing a real time coup attempt, in which as we reported yesterday, party leader Jeremy Corbin has been firing random …read more
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