"Separatists in Britain’s oil-rich north said this week that they would hold a fresh independence vote only a few years after previously being narrowly defeated, in a major escalation of the political crisis consuming the divided Atlantic seaboard country.
Announcing the vote on Monday, the Scottish Popular Liberation Movement said that it could take place as soon as next year — openly defying the United Kingdom federal government in the far-off southern capital, London.
Preparations for a vote would underline the fragile authority at home of a revisionist power as it prepares for a simultaneous confrontation with 27 of its near neighbours over what it sees as the injustice of the regional order...
The office of premier, which is not directly elected despite its effective presidential authority, controls the parliament on behalf of the state’s traditionalist supreme leader — who at the age of 90 will soon present the country with another fraught transition... "
FB: "Premier May — a feared former state security minister — seized control of the state last year during several weeks of political chaos unleashed by the vote, and after all her rivals in the EPC’s ensuing power struggle withdrew in suspicious circumstances.
According to demoralised civil servants, May is said to be concentrating decision-making from a ‘bunker’ somewhere in Whitehall, a leadership compound named after the palace of one of the bloodiest warlords in English history."
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