as a follow on question to one i asked ealier. Alex salmond is an mp sitting in westminster yet wants to be first minister in scottish executive. would this be allowed or would he have to resign his seat as an mp and stand as an msp in the scottish elections the future of the scottish people are at stake if this nutter should ever get control
2007-03-17 03:17:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Being an MP and an MSP simultaneously is allowed and that is exactly what Alex Salmond intends.
There is little doubt he will be elected as the MSP for the Gordon constituency in the Scottish Parliament elections in May and while Scotland remains in the Union there is no legal reason why he should then have to resign from his Westminster seat for the same constituency. The people decide who represents them and the respective parliaments have to accept their choice.
2007-03-17 14:20:46 · answer #1 · answered by Frog Five 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Once elected as leader He should give up his seat and announce that SNP mp's will not sit in a foreign parliament. Scotland has a fortune in oil revenue that it can utilise, besides independence creates its own positive economic trends, being second fiddle to London, is damaging to North England, never mind Scotland. If only Scotland had people that were willing to defend it militarily, rather than be cannon fodder in Basra. Scotland had the highest rate of casualties of any nation that fought in WW1. They were brave soldiers, but wouldn't it have been better to be fighting English troops in Scotland, and achieving freedom for themselves, rather than keeping the colonies under the yoke of the English empire. (and not the MI5 crew that call themselves the SNLA). Scotland an independent nation or a province of England.
2007-03-21 02:59:36 · answer #2 · answered by danny s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, he shouldn't have to resign his seat, he should be sacked, and as for being elected as First Minister of The Scottish Executive, it would serve the Scots bloody well right.
They wanted independence, and Alec Salmoln appears to be independant - of his brain. That's just my own humble opinion of course.
2007-03-17 03:36:33 · answer #3 · answered by bicballpoint 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
its a question of where the heart is, is it in london or is it in scotland, if its in both london and scotland then that is half heartedness. the efforts for a free scotland means that london should be seen as what it realy is, an extention of brussels, and if scotland wants to be free of foreign influence and be her own boss then the scotts parliament should be exactly that. total and utter self dominion. no london and no brussels.
this is one battle charge scotland is affraid of, true freedom.
2007-03-17 22:54:24 · answer #4 · answered by trucker 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-03-17 08:05:38 · answer #5 · answered by KARWAN M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋