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January 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Simon Walters, Mail on Sunday Political Editor
Last updated at 11:26 PM on 7th January 2012
David Cameron has warned Scotland’s First Minister about a referendum
David Cameron is heading for a showdown with Alex Salmond over the plan for Scotland to quit the United Kingdom.
The Prime Minister will confront Scotland’s First Minister after receiving new legal advice said to confirm Downing Street’s claim that Mr Salmond cannot hold a referendum without permission from Westminster.
Mr Cameron accepts that he cannot stand in the way of a referendum. But he intends to use the advice to wreck Mr Salmond’s plan to stage it in 2014 – the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, Scotland’s most famous military victory against England.
The row was taking shape yesterday as Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg branded Scottish Nationalist leader Mr Salmond an ‘extremist’ for trying to ‘yank Scotland out of the UK’ against the wishes of most Scots.
The Prime Minister is ready to use Westminster laws to force Mr Salmond to bring forward the referendum in the belief that it would stop him achieving an independent Scotland on the back of a tidal wave of Scottish patriotism.
The stand-off was compared last night by a senior Whitehall official to a ‘giant game of constitutional poker’ between the two men. It comes as the House of Lords is poised to debate new laws setting out the rules for a Scottish referendum.
The move, promoted by all party
backbench peers opposed to a breakaway Scotland, is designed to stop Mr
Salmond from dictating the timing of the vote – and the question on the
ballot paper.
Well-placed
Tory sources say Mr Cameron is ready to back the new laws in an attempt
to persuade Mr Salmond to discuss how and when the referendum should
be held.
One option is to include a so-called ‘sunset clause’ in the legislation that would set a deadline of 2013 for the referendum.
Alex Salmond wants a referendum in 2014 so people can decide if Scotland should become an independent country
‘We have always said that only Westminster can decide on referendums,’ said a Coalition insider. ‘The legal advice merely confirms that we were right to hold that belief.’
Downing Street maintains that Westminster’s power over referendums was established in the Scotland Act of 1998. The Prime Minister wants the referendum to be run by the Electoral Commission to ensure it is fair. Mr Salmond wants to offer two choices in it: an independent Scotland, or a slightly watered-down version.
Mr Cameron favours a single, straightforward ‘In or Out of the UK’ question.
Scots Tory peer Lord Forsyth, who is leading the campaign to keep Scotland in the UK, said last night: ‘The idea that we should decide the fate of the UK on the basis of the date of a medieval battle when we are in the middle of a financial crisis and youth unemployment of one in four would be laughable if it wasn’t so serious.’
Mr Clegg said Scots wanted more home rule, but did not want to leave the UK. ‘That is the mainstream of opinion. It is the extremists who want to yank Scotland out of the UK tomorrow, or say there should be no further change at all.’
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