
How radical is Scotland?
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The Risky Game of the S&P
I think the S&P were playing a very risky game with their most recent strategic developments, says Lord Tebbit. They couldn't whip up some kind of disruptive movement to get a referendum because frankly, nobody is particularly interested in that kind of nationalism in Scotland. So what they had to do was attempt to do it through the British state, which we already knew was hostile to this idea. And so the Supreme Court said the Scottish Government doesn't have a right to have a referendum, and the S & P said well, I guess this just proves that the UK doesn't care about us, so you should vote for us again. But even then, we're looking unless something wild
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