Lawyer dismisses plans for votes threshold as useless
Writing in The Scotsman, Christine O'Neill said: "Such an act could have no practical value. If it could be repealed by 50.1 per cent of MPs – and given that repealing legislation could, with a fair wind, be introduced and passed on a single afternoon – this new act would not … present any greater obstacle to bringing down a government than exists at present."
Her comments came as Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg defended the new threshold, insisting it would help bring stability and pointing out that a much higher proportion of MSPs must vote for a dissolution of the Scottish Parliament.