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They're changing their tune now. Reports are coming out that they may be prepared to offer a fast track to Scotland and NI if they hold independence referendums as they didn't vote to leave the EU.

But if you were the leader of the SNP, a party that has a long history of wanting independence, what would you do? Your country has voted resoundingly to stay in the EU. The EU are making noises about making an exception to the usual process should Scotland and / or NI wish to join. You could...

Haven't seen a breakdown like that, where is it from? The only ones I've seen have been around median age Problem is younger voters have been conditioned not to vote as they feel their vote doesn't count under our usual electoral system and that none of the major parties represent their views...

Not sure this Labour coup is going to have the intended effect.

Take your time says Townsend with 30 seconds left :facepalm:

How did he miss that? Keogh was nowhere near him.

Wheels are coming off here for Ireland. They need to clam themselves down.

This is why we need to act quickly, that's not the same as saying we need to rush as we need to get it right. But time is of the essence, the longer the period of instability continues the more stories like this we will see and the longer it will take to recover and start growing as a non-EU...

Unfortunately they aren't the only country in the EU. And if you actually look at what was said "It shouldn't take forever, that's right, but I would not fight for a short timeframe" it doesn't indicate to me that Germany are happy to wait around indefinitely with no timescale given for us to...

Exactly, 'believes' it's not cut and dried because the Act is written in a somewhat ambiguous manner so as I said if Scotland doesn't give consent Westminster will either have to ignore and overrule or accept their decision. In either case the whole thing will likely end up in court for a very...

Donald Tusk, president of the European council, Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European commission, and Martin Schulz, president of the European parliament along with Mark Rutte, prime minister of the Netherlands and EU president have said any delay to Britain’s exit would “unnecessarily...

That's being charitable. Wouldn't be surprised if they don't have 11 on the pitch by the end of the match either.

And in practice how would that work? The Sewel convention states that Westminster needs the consent of Holyrood to legislate on matters that have been devolved. The Scotland Act binds the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government to act consistently with EU law. To amend the Scotland Act...

They've said there's no need to rush, that's different. Its not saying it can be put on hold indefinitely with no indication of timescale given.

What do you think will happen if Holyrood and Stormont don't give legislative consent to leave the EU?

Indeed the clock doesn't start ticking until we invoke article 50 but that is the only thing on our side, everything else is stacked in the EU's favour by design to make leaving an unattractive prospect. They will not be happy to let us just sit on the result for months without doing anything. A...

It's not legally binding at all. I think it would be unlikely that would happen though. I think there are two possible scenarios for it to be blocked. Firstly if we have a general election and a party wins on a remain platform. They can claim that mandate overrides the referendum result. The...

The best solution to that would be to sort tax avoidance and tax evasion. Also work to control the transfer of wealth to the richest people in the country. Immigration certainly isn't the problem. The net fiscal impact of immigration is generally accepted to be no more than +/- 1% of GDP.

The rest of the EU don't appear to want to wait around. The way the exit procedure works we're not really in the driving seat here, the EU can apply a lot of pressure in terms of the negotiations to push the UK to a swift exit.

I'm starting to have my doubts. We could really have done with one side or the other having a decisive victory. With it being so close and not a unanimous result across the four countries of the UK it seems to have brought about a situation that wasn't really considered, or at least the...