Scotland’s Future — 14 Dec 2022 at 18:49

That this House believes it should be for the Scottish people to determine the future constitutional status of Scotland; and accordingly makes provision as set out in this Order:

Timetable for the Bill on Tuesday 10 January 2023

Timing of proceedings and Questions to be put on Tuesday 10 January 2023

Consideration of Lords Amendments and Messages on a subsequent day

Reasons Committee

Miscellaneous

“provide every child in Scotland with a device to get online, including a free internet connection and the support to use it”,

“The Scottish Government lacks a clear delivery plan and has not offered a coherent explanation for how its policies will achieve Scotland’s…emissions reduction targets”.

“the sovereign right of the Scottish people to determine the form of Government best suited to their needs”.

“prevents Scotland becoming an independent country in the future should the people of Scotland so choose.”

“Power lies with the Scottish people and we believe it is for the Scottish people to decide how we are governed.”

“No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country-thus far shalt thou go and no further.”

“We’re bought and sold for English gold-

Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!”

“trapped within a UK economy that is overwhelmingly shaped in the interests of the South-East of England and the City of London”.

“this broken UK economic model does not deliver prosperity to Wales and”-

“offers no prospect of doing so.”

“We fight, when they ask us

We boast, then we cower

We beg for a piece of what’s already ours”.

“That this House believes it should be for the Scottish people to determine the future constitutional status of Scotland; and accordingly makes provision as set out in this Order”.

“a critical once-in-a-generation election.”

“that they had reached it, but we do not believe we have reached it now.”

“We don’t want open borders. Freedom of movement has gone and it’s not coming back.”

“Power lies with the Scottish people and we believe it is for the Scottish people to decide how we are governed.”

“have an undoubted right to national self-determination; thus far they have exercised that right by joining and remaining in the Union. Should they”-

“determine on independence no English party or politician would stand in their way, however much we might regret their departure.”

“Power lies with the Scottish people and we believe it is for the Scottish people to decide how we are governed.”

“As a nation, they have an undoubted right to national self-determination… Should they determine on independence no English party or politician would stand in their way.”

“no nation could be held irrevocably in a Union against its will”.

“I felt, as the prime minister of the UK, I had a choice. I could either say to them”-

“‘well you can’t have your referendum, it is for us to decide whether you should have one.’”

“So I did what I thought was the right thing, which was to say ‘you voted for a party that wants independence, you should have a referendum that is legal, that is decisive and that is fair.’”

“If the people of Scotland ultimately determine they want to have another independence referendum, then there will be one…Could there be another referendum? The answer to that question is yes.”

“It seems hard to block a”-

“referendum but we should push the timing until after Brexit so the choice is clearer for people.”

“I want to take her on and win the argument on the union because I passionately believe in it”.

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