WORDS FROM WIKIPEDIA SHOWS HOW WE WERE CHEATED IN 1979 BY WESTMINSTER. LETS MAKE SURE THEY DONT CHEAT US AGAIN, VOTE YES The referendum was held on 1 March 1979. The electorate were asked to vote yes or no: Parliament has decided to consult the electorate in Scotland on the question whether the Scotland Act 1978 should be put into effect. Do you want the provisions of the Scotland Act 1978 to be put into effect? The result was a narrow majority in favour of devolution. However, Parliament had set a condition that 40% of the registered electorate should vote Yes in order to make it valid. The amendment to the Bill which set this condition was moved by George Cunningham, the Scottish-born Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury. Thus, despite a turnout of over 60%, devolution was not enacted since less than 40% of electorate voted yes. The Scotland Act 1978 was repealed in March 1979 by a vote of 301-206 in the UK House of Commons. Scotland Said Yes[edit] In the wake of the referendum the disappointed supporters of the bill conducted a protest campaign under the slogan Scotland said yes, officially launched in a Glasgow hotel on 7 March 1979.[3] In particular, the SNP carried out a survey of the electoral register in the Edinburgh Central constituency. This appeared to show that the register was so out of date that even in an area where major support for a yes vote might be expected, achievement of 40% of the electorate was virtually unattainable. This was because the majority of electors lived in older tenements or newer Council blocks of flats where specific flat numbers were not specified. The work of electoral registration staff to obtain an accurate current register was almost impossible.
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