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Originally Posted by Chris
Party manifestos cover a range of issues and are generally reversible by throwing out the party that implemented it after 5 years. Major constitutional change, such as Scotland breaking the union with England, is not reversible. It is not a policy on the same scale and with similar significance to, say, NHS funding and cannot properly be considered alongside it.
This was - belatedly - recognised for the first time in the British constitution by the holding of a confirmatory referendum after our joining of the EU. With referendums since held on Welsh and Scottish devolution (twice in Scotland), Scottish independence, the Westminster voting system and again on membership of the EU, it is now a well established precedent in our constitution that major changes to the constitution of the UK require the specific consent of the people to that specific issue.
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I agree. The manifesto commitment (holding a referendum) isn’t major constitutional change in itself though,