The First Ministers of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland met in Cardiff and called for independence from the United Kingdom. [1] The BBC filed the Monday meeting. [1] The Guardian filed the same table. [2] A call is not a referendum. A summit is not a dissolved union. Print the call. Do not print a breakup.

Three executives in one room can issue a sentence Westminster will not treat as law. Scotland has been here before with a dated vote. Wales has not. Northern Ireland's power-sharing furniture is not a Holyrood bill. Leave a named ballot date to a named act. Print the meeting. Print not a dissolved union.

Print the call. Monday is not a referendum. A memorandum of understanding is still a memorandum. Print the call as Monday's named Cardiff hold. Trump's Ireland visit was Saturday's street file, not this table. Print the meeting as still not a ballot. Print the call as still the only honest Monday word.

-- CHARLES ASHFORD, London