Orwellian UK BANNED Press TV: The controversial comments by Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, who
has also branded the UK coalition government as “xenophobic,” triggered
joy among republican supporters of the SNP.
This is while the comments contradict the Scottish government’s policy of having Queen as head of state.
Speaking at a public meeting in Midlothian on Wednesday last week,
the Justice Secretary suggested that “it will be for the people of
Scotland to decide” on the Queen’s role if Scotland is no longer part of
the UK.
“The position of the Scottish government is that we will inherit the situation we have with the Queen as the head of State in the ceremonial capacity that she has. She will not interfere with the government of the day, which she doesn’t do to her credit. But it will be for the people of Scotland to decide,” said MacAskill.
“If and when that would occur, if they wished to have a referendum,
and we would hope we would become the government post-2016, it will be
for whoever is in office then,” he added.
The prospect of a referendum on ditching the Queen as head of state
has also been raised by a number of other SNP ministers including
Culture and External Affairs Secretary Fiona Hyslop and Children’s
Minister Aileen Campbell.
“It will be up to the people of Scotland to decide but our policy is that the Queen would continue as the monarch in an independent Scotland,” Hyslop said last year.
This comes as to even “imagine” toppling the Queen or the abolition
of the monarchy remain punishable by life imprisonment in each and every
country under the reign of the Queen, particularly in the UK.
The monarchy in Britain is not only an unaccountable, totalitarian
and expensive entity, but also a hereditary institution within which the
Queen and her family cannot be held to account at the ballot box.
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