This was down to a low turnout of just over 60 per cent. All the sources used in our checks are publicly available and the FFS fact-checking methodology can be viewed here. Want to suggest a fact check? Email us at factcheck theferret. While your assertion of mostly false maybe correct. It was honoured, but the vote was rigged. It was an affront to democracy. It was yet another example of the wafer thin veil of democracy we have in this country, and the democratic deficit we endure in Scotland.
So, all in all a clause wrapped in abject hypocrisy was then used to overturn a democratic vote of the electorate. Smacks of the lies from the quitters. Did you live through it?
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Any cookies that may not vital for our website to function. By accepting this type of cookies you agree to let us record more information about you and your use of our website. This is not true. The incoming Thatcher Government rejected the Referendum result. John Nicolson, former MP. For more information see The Imp Site - Linwood. The Scottish town of Paisley is the focus of this article by the Alison Gilmour.
Immortalised in the now famous song by The Proclaimers, Letter from America describes the devastating impact of economic closures on Scottish society. Read more about the songs lyrics here. Support for some degree of Scottish control over economic decisions, therefore, was an important dimension in the growing clamour for a high degree of autonomy in relation to regional economic management.
The political controversies and arguments around oil revenues in the s have of course continued to and beyond the Scottish Independence Referendum:.
Support from the Labour Party and Trade Unions for devolution has to be seen very much in this economic context. However, there was another development taking place in Scotland, itself not unrelated to the economic picture: the first real signs of the emergence of the SNP as a political force, albeit at this time this was quite tentative and short lived, but nonetheless enough to force both the Labour and Conservative political establishments to take note.
The establishment in of a Commission to look at Constitutional Reform under Lord Kilbrandon led to a report in recommending the establishment of a Scottish Assembly. Another economic development that was to take Scotland by storm in the decades that followed was marked by the discovery of North Sea Oil in From this point until the Independence Referendum and its aftermath, oil reserves and revenues have rarely been far from the competing arguments around Scottish devolution and or independence.
That the overwhelming bulk of the oil was to be found in Scottish waters, gave the SNP a hugely effective weapon that they deployed to its full. The SNP were to increase their popularity during this period, registering In February they took third place behind Labour and the Tories, on This reminds us that the political decline of the Conservatives in Scotland is very much a relatively recent development.
To not vote at all, therefore, was effectively being counted as a No vote. While there had been considerable support for devolution in the opinion polls, the Yes camp was divided. And this was also true of both Labour and the SNP. Within Labour, there was strong support for devolution and strong support against it. While overwhelmingly the Tories were opposed to it, there were Conservatives who indeed supported the creation of a Scottish Assembly.
The Scottish Devolution Referendum took place then against a backdrop of economic decline — indeed chaos — rising industrial militancy and strikes, rising inflation and unemployment — and in the context of political tensions and in-fighting within the main contending pro- and anti-devolution camps. When the vote was counted, there was a relatively slim vote for devolution, by With the pro-side only receiving With the failure of the pro-devolution camp the SNP backed a Tory motion of no confidence in the Labour Government which saw the General Election being called and, well, the rest is history as they say.
The hostility which exists between the Labour Party in Scotland and the SNP has its origins in the period we have discussed here. Labour MPs and supporters in Scotland are not slow to remind the SNP that they were culpable in the election of Thatcher and the social and economic ravaging of much of Scotland that was to follow her victory.
The SNP lost 9 of its 11 seats in the General Election and it was not until the early s did it really being to show clear signs of a political recovery. This series of articles introduces you to the main themes and issues that informed the Scottish Independence Debate. This collection of articles outlines the debate being held in the run up to the Scottish independence referendum.
It is hope and fear that continue to drive the Scottish debate rather than evidence-based politics, argues Bram Gieben. We invite you to discuss this subject, but remember this is a public forum. James Callaghan's Labour government had a majority of only three after the October election and by had no majority at all after a series of by-election defeats.
The Kilbrandon commission had reported in , recommending the establishment of a Scottish parliament and endorsing the principle of devolution. A combined Scotland and Wales Bill was introduced in November It gained a second reading only after referendums in both Scotland and Wales had been conceded. On the first day of committee amendments were put down. Michael Foot, then Lord President and Cabinet Minister responsible for the devolution bill was reluctant to impose a guillotine.
After nearly hours of debate only three and a half clauses of the bill had been considered.
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