Hello and welcome to the Spike podcast I'm Tom Slater filling in for Fraser Myers who's away this week.

I'm delighted to be joined by two very special guests Luke Gitos a Spike columnist a lawyer and

director at the Freedom Law Clinic.

Luke, thanks for coming back on the show today.

Yeah, no problem.

And joined again by Anaya Follering, a man who is also a spike columnist and a broadcaster.

Coming up on the show, the prospects for Scottish independence, I speak to Kevin Newell about

euthanasia in Canada and we discuss all the latest from the Woke World Cup. So to kick things off, a big week in the story of the fight for Scottish independence,

Scottish secessionism, so there was this ruling on Wednesday at the Supreme Court

on the question of whether or not the Scottish government could legislate for a referendum, an

advisory referendum, but a referendum nonetheless, a complete denial of that really

from the justices there.

You had the President of Supreme Court not only saying that they weren't able to do this but also

rubbishing a lot of their arguments surrounding the idea that Scotland was

effectively a kind of oppressed colony who had rights to self-determination and so on.

But of course there's loads of conversation now swirling around what's this mean for independence and so on. But of course there's loads of conversation

I swirling around what's this mean for independence and so on but just on the on the

ruling loop we surprised by what took place there was this always a kind of

done deal given the fact that Scotland is an intrinsic part of the union as a matter of law and Constitution and so on.

Yeah, I'm not sure anyone was surprised who knew about constitutional law.

The decision was very short, which does give you an indication that although it was a relatively complicated question, the answer was quite simple.

The Scottish government presented, as you suggest, a couple of key arguments, the first being that they had effectively the power under the legislation which gave rise to devolution to hold a referendum without Westminster consent.

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