A FORMER leader of the SNP has warned the party against insisting on a quadruple lock on the result of an in-out referendum on Europe.
Gordon Wilson, who led the party from 1979 to 1990, said it was a risky and unnecessary gimmick.A FORMER leader of the SNP has warned the party against insisting on a quadruple lock on the result of an in-out referendum on Europe.
Gordon Wilson, who led the party from 1979 to 1990, said it was a risky and unnecessary gimmick.“Then the UN, the EU and other countries might legitimately think twice about recognition of Scotland in the face of federal opposition from rUK to a unilateral declaration of independence by Scotland even after a successful second referendum,” he added.
“It will give opportunities to London for procedural delays and obstruction and more importantly cause the Scottish public fear voting Yes.
“It is not as if the fundamental rights of the Scottish nation to self-determination can ever be diluted by Westminster or the SNP so much as that the SNP would lose the moral right to exert them in any crisis.”
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