MARTIN Keatings’s pioneering case to prove Scotland could hold an independence referendum ultimately failed – but his bid has formed the cornerstone of arguments heard both for and against indyref2 in the Supreme Court last week.
But Keatings maintains the SNP have wasted precious time in getting a referendum through, though he says he is “cautiously optimistic” the court will side with the Scottish Government.
“Like watching a car crash in slow motion,” says Keatings when asked how he found watching the hearings last Tuesday and Wednesday, in which his name was mentioned frequently by both sides of the argument.
