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Originally Posted by Puhbear69
Those phrases are the basics of any "nation of law".
One can't change the "contractual base" of a referendum for example or simply a business, and saying afterwards "April, April" it wasn't meant like this.
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Okoto probably knows more about legal principles than I do, but I did have to study contract law a little bit as part of my professional training. As I remember it:
Offer + Acceptance = Contract.
If the contract is accepted it becomes binding on both parties. You dont get to walk away because you changed your mind afterwards; though you can re-negotiate if the other party is willing to compromise, or you can merely break the contract, in which case there are penalties.
The rest of the UK has neither broken nor varied any clause in its contract with Scotland. We share a common identity and must all stick together. That is the contract. It seems to be the SNP which wants Scotland to break the contract with us. I do not know if the rest of the UK has a legal power to refuse Scotland a fresh independence referendum but if we do have such a power then it is up to the SNP to explain why we should not invoke a power of refusal. We will, of course, listen to whatever they have to say to us.