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# SNP set out referendum plan
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/snp-set-out-referendum-plan/
- Published: 2007-08-14T12:08:46.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:37:04.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

**Guy Aitchison (Bristol,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** Alex Salmond today [launched](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6944934.stm?ref=opendemocracy.net) the SNP government's White Paper on Independence which he hopes will begin a "national conversation" on Scotland's constitutional future. A range of possibilities will be debated, said Salmond, though the existing settlement was "no longer an option". The three opposition parties at Holyrood have united against the White Paper in a Unionist coalition. In a joint statement released yesterday they said that they would consider “how best the interests of the people of Scotland can be served", [suggesting](http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/briantaylor/2007/08/ground%5Fshifting%5Ffor%5Fmore%5Fpower.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) the prospect of a parliamentary review on the state of devolution rather than another constitutional convention.

Full analysis will follow shortly on OK. In the meantime it's worth checking out Frank Field in the [Telegraph](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=Y40YG4Z0CYYIZQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/opinion/2007/08/14/do1401.xml&ref=opendemocracy.net) on what this all means for our relationsip with the EU