Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon has set a date for a new independence referendum, to be held in October 2023. She confirms that she wants to start it through a pact with the government of London, as happened with that of 2014. The Conservative Executive is in its lowest hours. Sixty ministers and deputies have succeeded in expelling Boris Johnson, who will remain in office until his successor is elected. But on matters as important as the unity of the Kingdom, the ‘Tory’ stance is not changing: they are simply not going to facilitate another Scottish referendum. His argument is solid: the result of the previous referendum, favorable for sustainability, must last at least a generation. The independents are revolting against this pause and, as has happened in other processes of disintegration, they are trying to hold referendum after referendum until they win and never again consult the people on this transcendent issue.
In this way, the skilled Scottish lawyer at the head of the Edinburgh government will go to the UK High Court to decide whether or not to recognize the right to these consultations. If that fails, he confirms that he will present the next regional elections as a secret referendum.
Without the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, the constitutional system would not be threatened head-on. Brexit has given wings to supporters of an independent Scotland. In this region, 62% voted to stay in the EU in 2016 and the pro-independence parties won a clear victory in the 2021 elections. The secessionist argument is not just to break with England. In the midst of a major crisis, they are seeking to better and more favorably manage Scotland’s interdependence with the rest of Europe.
Brexit has cut the British off from their natural market and Boris Johnson’s populism has undermined democracy. There is a lack of a suggestive life project to join from the north.
But Sturgeon’s real roadmap is to go no further than the law and strengthen his leadership by calling for another referendum that will be rejected. It is aware that in Europe the attempts to breach the territorial integrity of a state, as happened in Catalonia in 2017, have ended badly and no EU government supports it.
The European club incorporates an anti-secession regime in its rules, principles and policies. The Scottish leader simply sticks to the nationalist script of always asking for more and clashing with an outside enemy. They rule better against London.
Source: La Verdad
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