The Scottish Assembly was a proposed legislature for Scotland that would have devolved a set list of powers from the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Labour Government led the Scotland Act 1978 through Westminster which provided for the establishment of the Scottish Assembly.
Although Scotland voted in favour of the Act in a referendum on 1 March, 1979, the Labour Government in London refused to accept the result, and repealed the Act, inadvertently causing its own downfall when the Scottish National Party refused to support it in a later vote of no confidence. Home rule for Scotland would not become a reality until 1999 following the Scotland Act 1998 establishing the Scottish Parliament.
Read more about Scottish Assembly: History, Scottish Constitutional Convention
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“We’ll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.”
—18th-century Scottish proverb, collected in James Kelly, Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs, no. 351 (1721)
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—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)