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.

Three executives in one room can issue a sentence Westminster will not treat as law, and Westminster's reply will be funding formulas, not a ballot order. Trump's Ireland visit was Saturday's street file, not this table. Memoranda accumulate; unions dissolve only by statute. Monday produced the former.

Called summits call; Monday's called. Calling is the update. Statutes dissolve unions, not summits.

Westminster has heard this chorus from Edinburgh for a decade and treated it as weather. Adding Wales and Northern Ireland to the same sentence makes the noise louder without making it law. A union that requires an Act to end will not end because three First Ministers shared a Monday.

Three First Ministers sharing a sentence is noise, not an Act. Monday prints a call. A referendum would need Westminster's permission this page does not invent.

Monday prints a call. Monday prints a call, not a referendum. Westminster's permission is not in this file.

-- CHARLES ASHFORD, London