[Twosugars]

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has implied the Queen should refuse to be drawn into a future vote on Scottish independence after David Cameron admitted he asked the monarch to intervene in 2014.
The Guardian


Thoughts?

[bots]

Yes, she should be impartial. If Scotland break away from England it is a political separation, the queen would still be queen of Scotland as she is now

[Alf]

No! She should put her foot down with a firm hand.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Alf

No! She should put her foot down with a firm hand.

She's probably not that flexible anymore

[Tom4784]

She's retained impartiality in everything else and she should remain impartial here.

[joeysteele]

Yes she should remain impartial.
I'm sure however she would be sad to see the break up of the United Kingdom and of course Great Britain too.

[Cherie]

Yes she should stay out of it

[smudgie]

Yes.

[arista]

No Cameron the Sneak
lets that out tonight 9PM BBC1HD The Cameron Years.


To Help Sell HIS book


The Queen will no longer get involved.
after this bad leak

[MTVN]

Thing is she is the head of state so in some ways it would be odd for the head of state to be neutral on the issue of splitting their nation up..

I think she did exactly the right thing in the last referendum by hinting that she wanted Scotland to stay without explicitly stating anything

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Thing is she is the head of state so in some ways it would be odd for the head of state to be neutral on the issue of splitting their nation up..

I think she did exactly the right thing in the last referendum by hinting that she wanted Scotland to stay without explicitly stating anything

Nobody is splitting the nation. Scots are not English.
She will remain queen of Scotland.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

Nobody is splitting the nation. Scots are not English.

She will remain queen of Scotland.

Would she? She didn't remain our queen when we became a Republic

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Would she? She didn't remain our queen when we became a Republic

Yeah the Scottish independence campaign always said the Queen would still be head of state. I don't think there's any issue as such with the monarchy in Scotland with most people as they always had one and it was a Scottish king who first united England and Scotland so that predates the UK as it is now

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Yeah the Scottish independence campaign always said the Queen would still be head of state. I don't think there's any issue as such with the monarchy in Scotland with most people as they always had one and it was a Scottish king who first united England and Scotland so that predates the UK as it is now

Thanks

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

Nobody is splitting the nation. Scots are not English.
She will remain queen of Scotland.

The nation is the UK not England - obviously Scottish independence splits it

[bots]

Originally Posted by MTVN

The nation is the UK not England - obviously Scottish independence splits it

The queen is not queen of the uk, she is queen of england, scotland etc, therefore she has no stake in the game

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

The queen is not queen of the uk, she is queen of england, scotland etc, therefore she has no stake in the game

Umm I'm afraid I don't think that's true at all. The UK is a nation - England and Scotland are only constituent countries within that nation. There is no such thing as the 'Queen of England' anymore.

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by MTVN

The nation is the UK not England - obviously Scottish independence splits it

Disagree. UK is an union of nations.

[joeysteele]

I understand Her Majesty's title is.
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and other Commonwealth Countries.

I can't see her not wanting to be, still Queen of Scotland if Scotland voted for independence.
I think they'd want her to be so too.

[Twosugars]