The drama surrounding last week’s Brexit vote gets stranger and stranger.
Yesterday, Scotland’s first minister said Scotland may veto Brexit altogether. Under devolution rules, the parliaments of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales must consent to any EU divorce, a report by the House of Lords’ European Union Committee said.
“If the Scottish Parliament was judging this on the basis of what’s right for Scotland then the option of saying look we’re not to vote for something that’s against Scotland’s interest, of course that’s got to be on the table,” First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on a BBC Sunday morning talk show.
But a constitutional law expert and member of the Scottish parliament tweeted Scotland didn’t have the power to block the UK’s withdrawal. “Holyrood has the power to show or to withhold its consent. But withholding consent is not the same as blocking,” he tweeted.
Meanwhile, Sturgeon said Scottish officials will begin talking to EU officials in Brussels next week about Scotland remaining in the EU.
Meanwhile, both major political parties are in turmoil in the UK. At this point, no one knows where or how this ends.