No Tory Veto Over Holyrood

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The UK Government has published proposals for sweeping new laws in a White Paper on the “UK internal market” that would undermine environmental and social protections across the UK and fundamentally change the devolution settlement, putting the Scottish Parliament in a straitjacket by giving the UK Government a veto on everything it does.

Currently Scotland is free to take its own path in devolved areas. Free to keep the NHS in public hands, to prohibit fracking, to provide public transport for free… but these proposals would end that. Of course, the UK Government will insist that whilst the would have the power to strike these policies down they won’t. But they expect us to take their word for it whilst voting against laws that would, for example, explicitly protect the NHS from privatisation.

The UK Government plan to impose their will on the devolved nations without their consent. The Scottish Greens are calling on everyone who values Scotland’s ability to run its own affairs to resist. You can help by flooding the Minister responsible with emails asking him to bin this dangerous, anti-environment and undemocratic law.

Say No Tory Veto Over Holyrood now

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Dear Minister,

I am writing in relation to your white paper on the “UK Internal Market”, published on July 16th.

This paper contains proposals which would seriously undermine both the democratic legitimacy of the Scottish Parliament and the efforts which have been made to achieve strong social and environmental protections for the people of Scotland.

Since the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, we in Scotland have had the opportunity to choose parliamentarians and a Government in the knowledge that the scheme of devolution is clear; those matters explicitly reserved under Schedule 5 of the Scotland Act remain under the control of the UK Government, and all other matters are devolved. The proposals in your white paper would cut directly through this principle, and would require UK approval for action by the Scottish Parliament or the Scottish Government in areas which are clearly devolved. In essence, you and your colleagues would have a veto over the actions of the democratically elected Scottish Parliament.

I urge you to withdraw the white paper, and to work in a genuinely open and collaborative spirit with the other governments and parliaments within the UK, to develop an alternative approach which can proceed on the basis of consensus.

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