Part of Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 January 1978.
This amendment raises some fundamentally important principles. I do not think that as a House of politicians we should overlook the fundamental schism which a block grant inevitably will create.
It is the stated policy of the Scottish National Party to create an independent State in Scotland, and it is its political intention to use the Assembly by whatever means it can—fair or foul—to achieve that aim—