The Scottish pro-independents now to say no

Alex Salmond, leader of the Divided National Scottish pro-independents (SNP) and chief of the Self-government of Scotland, confirmed yesterday in London that the law proposal to summon a referendum on the independence will offer the voters three options: to remain within the United Kingdom, the independence or to extend the power that now the Self-government possess, established in 1999.

With this offer, which the dichotomy independence either breaks or leaves it status quo, Salmond hopes to obtain the support of the liberal - democratic Scots, opposed to the independence but have divergent internal positions on the referendum issue. The liberal ones will decide on it in an extraordinary congress on October 30 if they decide to support it.

Given the fact that the SNP governs Scotland from the opposition benches, what it needs is the external support so that the Parliament of Edinburgh summons the referendum. Although the opinion polls predict that the independence would be refuted, the great majority of the voters is in favour of the referendum. If the legislative Scotsman summons it, it might be celebrated on November 30th, 2010, festivity of Saint Andrew, a patron of Scotland.

Salmond declared yesterday in a meeting with foreign correspondents in London that if the Parliament does not accept the voting he hopes to obtain absolute majority in 2011 to summon it. The SNP has thrown a national debates campaign across a vast population in order to debate on the independence. If the arguments in the past were turning upside-down concerning similar questions, the fiscal scales or the pillaged oil assumption of the Northern Sea, the pro-independents focus now on defending the practical advantages of the independence.

Although according to public opinion on the financial crisis and the economic collapse of a model countries such were recently considered to be Ireland or Iceland have damaged the independence perspectives in Scotland, Alex Salmond defended the opposite dissertation on having underlined that the crisis only emphasized Scotland's dependence on Westminster in taking the key decisions in moments of crisis, in decisions made concerning the fiscal stimulation to reactivate the economy, the public investment levels to reform the public services, the aptitude of the Self-government to resort to the indebtedness to finance the accomplishments achieved or simply to perform the changes in the systems of public assistance, pensions or fiscal tax reliefs. In addition to other fields of importance, like the infrastructures being able to export the Scotch system surpluses of renewable energy to the continent, a politics of defence without nuclear weapon or the arrival of foreign students, all of this depend today on London.

The leader of the SNP admitted that the independence legally must be voted before the Parliament of Holyrood as much as before that of Westminster, but in any event this would only mean that without any further ado the pro-independents will gain a referendum because the British politicians have always promised to accept the will of the Scots. And the Scotland will remain a part of the EU because there are numerous studies that go in favour of this conclusion, although some of us will say that the whole thing has been wrapped up without previous consultations with the Brussels.