I didn't say it wasn't related.
The permanency of the Scottish Parliament is in the Scotland Bill, just because an amendment requiring a referendum should a Westminster government ever decided to dissolve it does not stop that.
Do you really think that it will be dissolved? Before now it could have been done but it hasn't? Ever thought why? Because it would cause absolute havoc. I'm afraid the SNP are trying to have their cake and eat it. They are in the position where they can paint anything where they don't get what they want as the evil Tories being obstructive. Do they really think that they will just get whatever they want. I'm no friend of the Tories, what Maggie did in Scotland with the poll tax was despicable, however that was repealed and replaced. Unlike the miners whose pits were closed, (I apologise for Bossmark too, I didn't get around to replying to his explanation and how he was personally affected), but the SNP were not too long ago know as Tartan Tories. I wonder why that is? Just that they have been politically astute to occupy the middle ground vacated by Labour. They make a big fuss about this amendment but don't see too much complaining really how FFA didn't go through. I bet Swinney is breathing a sigh of relief. Though I am also sure that if FFA had been granted the SNP would have found some way to twist it to show how the Tories were screwing Scotland by hanging the potential £7.6 billion deficit around Holyrood's neck.
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