Scotland, a halt to the independentist Sturgeon: the British Supreme Court stops the referendum-bis

An abrupt stop to

, to be relaunched with a

for the Scottish secessionist leader, Prime Minister

has come from

of the United Kingdom.

The verdict, delivered today in London, bluntly denies Edinburgh the ability to convene a new popular consultation (after the one in 2014, won by the unionist campaign) on detachment from Great Britain, without the consent of the Westminster Parliament.

The leader of the

wanted to call on her compatriots to answer the fateful question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?".

Thus the objective indicated in recent months by the

of going to the polls as early as

, a completely symbolic date proposed by the Scottish independence party, with little chance of becoming a reality, given the opposition of the central government.

In the reading of the verdict (passed unanimously) the President of the Court, Lord

, rejected the legal arguments of the Scottish lawyers on all lines: in a compact and unanimous way, it is affirmed that the convening of a referendum on secession, destined to have effects on the United Kingdom, it cannot pass through the mere approval of a law by the parliamentary assembly of Edinburgh but

.

Calls for the right to self-determination were also dismissed, including comparisons between Scotland and other realities such as

and

.

The British supreme judges said that the matter had already been resolved at the time of the first referendum in 2014 and is therefore now closed.

A bitter alt, which burns even more since the SNP could have counted on a sure majority in the Scottish Parliament, in favor of a second consultation.

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Another picture of Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon

Sturgeon "disappointed", the hopes on next year's policies

Sturgeon said she was "disappointed" but at the same time respects the response of the judges, who "don't make the laws" but limited themselves to "interpreting" the existing one (the

).

Her first statement was then followed by an attempt to relaunch the pro-independence program, with a "plan B" that still remains rigidly within the legal and institutional boundaries, avoiding coups as happened in Spain between Catalonia and Madrid.

In fact, Sturgeon had been all too clear: well before the verdict of the British Supreme Court, she had specified that "

" would not follow in the event of a "legal defeat" of her own requests.

Her strategy is to stake everything on the field of political battle, making this objective the dominant theme of the

for the following year's vote.

The

therefore trusts in

: those, in her opinion, will be a "

referendum ", with a great victory for the SNP.

For her, voting is the only "democratic, legal and constitutional means by which the Scottish people can express their will".

The clash in the Municipalities with Sunak

Shortly after the Edinburgh premier's speech, discussions began in London with British Prime Minister

engaged in

in the House of Commons.

After affirming that today's judgment is "clear and definitive" - ​​above all if one considers that both parties undertook in 2014 to accept the result of that referendum as a valid response for "a generation" - the conservative prime minister opened to

on a range of issues, from the economy to the war in Ukraine.

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Rishi Sunak in the House of Commons

Reassurances that were rejected by

, head of the SNP group, who added that "democracy will not be denied", despite the judges' sentence.

The pro-independence advocate in the Commons then used even harsher words: “

”.

Blackford then met in the same session in a discussion with the Tory government minister for Scotland,

insisting on the thesis according to which the right to reopen the question of independence derives from

(approved after the Scottish referendum with the majority of British voters, but only a minority of Scottish voters).

According to

regarding a possible secession from the Kingdom, the

are

, against the result of 2014 in which the "no" prevailed over the "yes" with 55.3% compared to 44.7% .