MEDIA WATCH: Scottish independence inevitable”

FORMER  SCOTTISH National Party (SNP)  leader Alex Salmond has warned  the UK’s new Prime Minister Theresa May: “Don’t mess with the people of Scotland”, as she visits Edinburgh for talks with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon reports The Week.

Salmond, Sturgeon’s predecessor at Holyrood, told ABC Lateline  that he believes independence for Scotland is now “inevitable”.

Taking a belligerent tone, Salmond warned the PM that “telling the people of Scotland that their own parliament can’t hold a national referendum on independence would be an extremely bad and extremely short-term move”.

He added: “Let’s be quite clear about this. I had dealings with the previous Prime Minister David Cameron, and he said ‘no, you can’t have a referendum’, but as soon as we had a majority in the Scottish Parliament, he backed down.

“If that came to pass, if that was the situation at the end of the negotiations, then exactly the same thing will happen with Theresa May.”

Speaking last night [Thursday July 14 ], May said her message to the Scottish people was that the government was on their side.