NOT least re-invigorated by the drama of Scotland’s Independence Referendum- I turned to my Constitutional Law text-books for reference and guidance. I followed the developing finale in the newspapers, on the radio and on television.

The extraordinary turnout was the consequence of much hard work on the part of many but surely reflected the monumental public commitment to having a say in this final outcome. Would that ALL Elections would be so accompanied by such electoral interest and turnout!

However I felt, as soon as Messrs Cameron, Miliband and Clegg intervened as did ex PM Gordon Brown; the Chair of the Bank of England; a plethora of Chairs/ CEO Business Leaders in Scotland, as indeed the Head of State (Queen Elizabeth II) that the final result would owe more to “fear” rather than “hope”. So it proved!

Scotland to become an “Independent Country”. My Constitutional Law textbooks speak of Sovereign States recognised in International Law, per se, and deemed suitable to be Members of the International Community of Sovereign States through membership of the United Nations.

Thus it was this that Scotland would have become were there a YES result.

Scotland, since 1707, legally united with England, in Great Britain.

Northern Ireland – created in 1920 under the Government of Ireland Act (the Island of Ireland having been united in 1800 as Great Britain (England and Scotland) and Ireland.

Cymru / Wales, lastly but not least, my country, conquered by England, de facto, in 1282. Annexed, de jure, by Henry VIII, in 1536 and 1542.

Cymru / Wales, I hereby contend, so remains, notwithstanding devolution, de jure, a conquered territory!

Messrs Cameron, Clegg and Miliband the “war” to create a more transparent, open, fair and equitable society is a long way from over the “battle”

is just beginning.

LYN LUKE ap TRIN DAVIES

Bancyfelin