Scottish Daily Mail

Not Kosovo

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THe Supreme court made their nobrainer decision yesterday and vetoed the SNP.

Their summing-up also destroyed three nationalis­t lies.

under internatio­nal law the right to self-determinat­ion rests on the claimant being either a former colony, oppressed or occupied by a foreign power, or not having enough power to pursue its economic, cultural or social developmen­t. These

opinions are based on the Quebec and Kosovo independen­ce cases and judgments. These situations absolutely do not exist in Scotland. In fact, we haven’t been occupied or oppressed since 1745 and the SNP don’t fully or properly use the devolved powers they have.

To paraphrase Deputy First Minister John Swinney, the only ‘too wee, too poor and too stupid’ areas in Scotland are in the brains of the civil servants and politician­s who thought up this costly, diverting wheeze.

ALLAN SUTHERLAND, Stonehaven, Kincardine­shire.

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