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Hello and welcome to this special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shops.

I'm Katie Bulls and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Versaif.

This week the Supreme Court ruled that Nick the Sturgeon does not have the power to hold an referendum

about the UK Government's consent on Scottish independence.

Fraser, is this a matter of case closed?

Nothing is ever case closed for the Scottish Nationalists not even losing referendum in 2014

and was case closed but that's the nature of the movement.

What I think this whole drama is testimony to is the S&P's ability to create kind of drama and doubt

whether it is none.

Those of us who remember the passage of the Scotland Act and rules of devolution

remember it was very explicit at the time that there was no way the Scottish Parliament

was going to be given the power to hold the referendum.

The idea was that only the UK could decide on the future of the UK.

So it says so explicitly in the Scotland Act but still the S&P managed to go to the Supreme Court

and ask for its interpretation of the Scotland Act.

Now this was always a bit of a, it was never really in doubt.

It's a lot of strange sort of theatre as well that belongs to other countries other than Britain.

I mean the America for example hang on what how a Supreme Court interprets the Constitution.

So the Supreme Court in America can decide something over the head of the government.

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