andrewducker: (whoever invented boredom...)
andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2011-05-10 08:53 am

Shooting yourself in the face

Apparently David Cameron is being advised to take control of the Scottish situation by preempting the Scottish government holding a referendum and announcing it themselves.

Right now I feel pretty much neutral about Scottish Independence. I can see positives and negatives.

But if a Westminster government starts trying to manipulate what happens because of the election up here, I'm going to be voting in favour of it, and so will an awful lot of other people. Because it's exactly that kind of behaviour which has a fair chunk of the population wanting independence in the first place.

[identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com 2011-05-10 10:05 am (UTC)(link)
Well, there's no sign of Cameron actually having made a suggestion that he would consider doing this yet. But it's certainly an idea that's spreading through Conservative opinion - there were a couple of comments on the Conservative Voice article Andy linked to yesterday saying the same thing.