Scotland to UK: Stop silly distraction

As the British government seeks to set a date for the referendum on Scotland’s independence prior to Scotland’s proposed date of 2014, the Scottish government has called on Westminster to stop meddling in the issue as such acts would further fan Scottish people’s desire for independence.

“The more they try to dictate the terms of the referendum from Westminster, the more unpopular the anti-independence parties will become, and the more popular independence will be,” said Bruce Crawford, Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Parliamentary Business and Government Strategy.

Crawford’s comments were made after the British government’s secretary of state for Scotland, Michael Moore, urged for the referendum to be held in September 2013.

“We have published a detailed timetable to hold the referendum in autumn 2014, and that is when it shall be held,” said Crawford in response as the Scottish government called Moore’s suggestion a ‘silly distraction.’

The meddling form Westminster comes as a group of senior constitutional academics revealed earlier this month that the Scottish parliament holds the legal right to organize the referendum without interference from the British government.

The constitutional academics revealed that, under the current provisions of the Scotland Act, Holyrood has the legal authority to arrange the conditions of a referendum on Scotland’s independence.

The end to Scotland’s 300-year-old union with the UK will have serious implications for the British government including the gradual loss of its nuclear weapons.

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