Blow for Scottish nationalists as UK court rejects independence vote bid

[Emrys]

2. Indeed.

And irony, as a major factor that tipped the vote in the 2014 referendum was the threat that Scotland would lose EU membership if it voted for independence.

When the UK was an EU member, a mechanism was put in place (belatedly) that set out the process for any member state to leave.

Today's judgment decided that no such mechanism was put in place in 1707, when a band of corrupt politicians decided for the people of Scotland that they would enter a "union" with England. Indeed, the Scottish government is not even empowered to hold a consultative referendum on its voters' wishes. Westminster rules.

This leaves little legal alternative now except to make the next general election a plebiscite on the question of Scotland leaving or remaining in this unequal "union".

Various unionist politicians now have to live with their declarations from the past that Scotland does have the right to decide its own future if that's what its people vote for.