Nicola Sturgeon gave a predictable response to the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Scottish government does not have the power to legislate for a referendum on Scottish independence. The First Minister dialled up the grievance factor by claiming the decision ‘exposes as myth any notion of the UK as a voluntary partnership’. If only there was a vote in the past eight years which disproves her point.

The court’s ruling, delivered in the clipped tones of the Edinburgh-educated Lord Reed, was a fitting coup de grace in response to the grandstanding of the Scottish government and Scottish National Party.

Rallies and protests are reportedly being scheduled the length and breadth of Scotland by the faithful of the nationalist movement in response. MPs and MSPs are already tweeting that the decision proves Scotland is not an ‘equal partner within the Union’. Such talk bears more than a little in common with the ‘Stop the Steal’ tin-hattedness of president Trump’s supporters and the FBPE brigade’s perpetual marching to stop Brexit.

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