Thank you again, (and again and again), for supporting this petition! If you can help to promote it, share it tweet it talk about it, in any way you can you will be standing up to all the things that have persuaded so many Scots that our current political systems are broken. The implications of the chicanery going on in Scotland's referendum beggar belief. And even though we cannot undo what George Osborne and Gordon Brown have already done to the campaign, by pushing to enforce the law we CAN achieve some profoundly important results: 1. In order to make these last minute promises of a brand new kind of union, the pro-union campaigners have broken the existing promises and undertakings given at the Edinburgh Agreement and enacted in the provisions of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2013. Official recognition of this fact,via injunction, would put these new bribes into the context of the bad faith in which they have been made and help to mitigate some of the damage they may have done. (People who break their given word in order to make a new promise are self-evidently untrustworthy.) 2. There's more ... Sometimes the most dangerous and pernicious political moves aren't recognized for their real action and effects until it is too late. We are not only seeing a cynical disregard for the law, here, as well as egregious bad faith with those who have already voted but also an act of betrayal of the people, not just of Scotland, but of the UK as a whole.I will let The Telegraph's (yes, The Telegraph's!!), Dan Hodges explain: “A new Union is being forged in the heat of debate”, he (Gordon Brown) said. Great. But what debate? I’m not involved in it. You’re not involved in it. Unless I’m missing something, no one in England, Wales or Northern Ireland is being given a say over this radical new constitutional arrangement. I’m not missing something. Gordon Brown was crystal clear yesterday. “These reforms will confirm that Scotland has helped changed not just our own country but the United Kingdom,” he announced. Well, thanks for that. But I’m afraid that’s not Scotland’s prerogative. Scotland is currently holding a referendum over whether it wishes to secede from the Union. It’s a simple Yes/No question. Do you want to stay, or do you want to go? Not, “do you want to unilaterally establish the English, Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh Federation.” I’ll repeat, what do our politicians think they are doing? Whether or not Scotland remains a part of the Union is a matter for the Scottish people alone. It’s right they are having their referendum, and that they should have sole say over their destiny. But that is no longer what is on the table. What is now being proposed – we are being told – is nothing less than an entirely new constitution for the United Kingdom as a whole. And no one other than the people of Scotland appears to be getting a say on whether they agree with it or not. Actually, let me rephrase that. No one but the politicians appears to be getting a say. ... ...I’d assumed that if the Scots voted “No” then each of the major parties would then come up with their own ideas for a new framework for Scottish devolution, and put those ideas to the British people at the next election. Crazy, old-fashioned stuff like securing a democratic mandate. But that’s for the birds. Instead, each of the parties has been bounced into supporting the Brown Plan, which is now going to be presented to the Scottish people as a binding commitment. No one, not even the voters of Scotland, are going to be offered the chance to actually vote for it. This is utter madness. I’ll repeat, it is precisely this sort of arrogance by the political class that has created this crisis in the first place.” In other words, the 'Keep the Scottish independence referendum fail and legal' petition is now doing more than trying safeguard the integrity of Scotland's referendum, as vitally important as it is. The panic in the No camp is so great that it has put us in the ironic position of defending the right of everyone in the United Kingdom - as it exists right now - to a say in what that UK, their UK too, would look like after a 'No' vote. Ironic or not, it's a good thing because it demonstrates that this petition, like the referendum itself is all about freedom, democracy and the rights of the people! Let's make it count. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100285785/scottish-independence-what-does-the-political-establishment-think-its-playing-at/#dPostComment