WESTMINSTER is seeking to deny the “democratic right” of people in Scotland to choose their own future, leaving them permanently trapped in the Union by refusing to sign a Section 30 order or devolve powers over constitutional matters to Holyrood.
During an interview on the BBC Scotland’s Sunday Show, Martin Geissler accepted without question Andrew Kerr’s rather unusual claim that the UN right to self determination might not apply to developed Western democracies.
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Has some group in Westminster asked the BBC to try to create yet another diversion on Scottish independence by initiating a debate regarding the situation with colonies seeking independence that led to the 1960s UN resolution, compared to the current position of Scotland? The Unionists must be grasping for any kind of straw if they think that the Scottish Government will be unable to raise Scotland’s right to self-determination at the UN because the United Kingdom is a voluntary union between the countries of Scotland and England so Scotland cannot be a colony.
John Jamieson
South Queensferry
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