{"id":13416,"date":"2014-03-17T09:08:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T09:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13416"},"modified":"2014-03-17T09:09:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T09:09:58","slug":"scottish-independence-to-derail-2015-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13416","title":{"rendered":"Scottish independence to derail 2015 election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/scott.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13417\" alt=\"scott\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/scott-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/scott-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/scott-148x98.jpg 148w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/scott-31x21.jpg 31w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/scott-38x25.jpg 38w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/scott-323x215.jpg 323w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/scott-535x356.jpg 535w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/scott.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fears grow in Britain of a &#8220;constitutional crisis&#8221; which would put the election in doubt, as legal expert warns that Scottish independence could bring down the next government<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2015 general election will be thrown into turmoil if Scotland votes for independence in September\u2019s referendum, according to government legal advice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An election is scheduled to be held on May 7 next year but by then Scotland could already be preparing to separate from the rest of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The leading lawyer who wrote the Westminster government\u2019s legal advice on Scottish independence is now warning that a \u201cYes\u201d vote in the referendum would have major ramifications for the election, and could destabilise the next British government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cabinet ministers fear that if Alex Salmond\u2019s independence campaign succeeds, the general election would be in grave doubt, plunging Britain into an unprecedented \u201cconstitutional crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a memorandum for the House of Lords, Professor Alan Boyle, a specialist in international law at Edinburgh University, outlined two options for the election if Scotland chooses independence on September 18.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears grow in Britain of a &#8220;constitutional crisis&#8221; which would put the election in doubt, as legal expert warns that Scottish independence could bring down the next government The 2015 general election will be thrown into turmoil if Scotland votes for independence in September\u2019s referendum, according to government legal advice. An election is scheduled to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scottish independence to derail 2015 election?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[8660,1096,1945,8661,1946],"class_list":["post-13416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-constitutional-crisis","tag-independence","tag-scotland","tag-scottish-independence","tag-uk"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/scott.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13420,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416\/revisions\/13420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}