Comments on: Click your fingers, close your eyes and… http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/04/29/click-your-fingers-close-your-eyes-and/ Not a real vee Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Richard Thomson http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/04/29/click-your-fingers-close-your-eyes-and/comment-page-1/#comment-77039 Richard Thomson Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:59:08 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/04/29/click-your-fingers-close-your-eyes-and/#comment-77039 That's not how I took it. Commenting on whether Scotland could return to the UK post-independence (presumably meaning the reinstatement of the Union of the Parliaments), Salmond said: "It can vote to become independent and it can vote if it so chooses to become un-independent, that's the prerogative of a nation and Scotland, of course, is a nation. "It's a country - it has the right of self-determination. So no, it's not a one-way street, theoretically a country could do that." And theoretically, I suppose it could. However, its also about as likely as me ever running the London Marathon in under 2 1/2 hours. And as you say, the rest of the UK might have something to say about that if it ever were to be mooted in future... the resulting referendum campaign might be interesting though! That’s not how I took it. Commenting on whether Scotland could return to the UK post-independence (presumably meaning the reinstatement of the Union of the Parliaments), Salmond said:

“It can vote to become independent and it can vote if it so chooses to become un-independent, that’s the prerogative of a nation and Scotland, of course, is a nation.

“It’s a country – it has the right of self-determination. So no, it’s not a one-way street, theoretically a country could do that.”

And theoretically, I suppose it could. However, its also about as likely as me ever running the London Marathon in under 2 1/2 hours. And as you say, the rest of the UK might have something to say about that if it ever were to be mooted in future… the resulting referendum campaign might be interesting though!

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