Comments on: The Receding Tape https://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/referendum/the-receding-tape/ Informing the Debate Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:45:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: jenny burnett https://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/referendum/the-receding-tape/#comment-5868 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:45:10 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/referendum/?p=619#comment-5868 Important to point out that these questions will not settle down, in particular due to the European Union, and especially if the vote in 2014 is not decisive. Scottish nationalism is a very destabilising force, distracting from first-order matters. As Bill Clinton pointed out concerning being Scottish and British “You can’t have 51/49, 52/48 debate about that every single year.”

‘Independence in Europe’ is a bogus offering. But then having a constitution is not the same thing as having democracy is it?

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