A referendum might be a good thing for people in Scotland, they could debate if they want to still be a part of the UK and lay the issue to rest. It would be a sad day for me if Scotland was no longer a part of the Uk but even so if I think it wont happen people in Scotland have a right to determination this for themselves and to be able to state such things openly. Even so I find it unlikely that there will be a referendum, as sixty percent of Scotland's parliamentarians, seem to oppose independence.
Well...there have been developments:
The political story due to become the biggest in the UK, and the one that should really strike fear into Gordon Brown and the entire British Labour movement, is nothing to do with Boris or Ken or Dave, but Wendy.
The Scottish Labour leader, Wendy Alexander, in a genuinely jaw-dropping moment, has signalled support for a referendum on Scottish independence. And she wants it now. The calculation is that the SNP would lose a popular vote on the constitution, putting to bed any debate over independence for a generation and skewering Alex Salmond into the bargain. It's also precisely the opposite of what Alexander has been arguing ever since she assumed the leadership.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/07/scotland.scotlandApparently Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish Nationalists who head the Scottish Parliament, is playing it very carefully. It is what his party wants and has been working toward, but he is taking time to scrutinize the legal aspects to ensure there is no possibility of the goalposts being moved, as happened when Margaret Thatcher held the same referendum, but refused to grant independence by using legal jiggerypokery. One of the reasons the Scots do not vote Conservative...
