Think it was more about the fear of public unrest TET. I always felt that overcoming opposition teams would be the least of Celtics obstacles this season ( granted we made an arse of that )
its possible I suppose
I think we could get social unrest though if indy was voted for,
they still live in the feudal system in their minds
yeomen warders and their apprentice boys going back to the city of London riots not long before union of crowns
yeoman was lowest rank of humanity back then with any rights
the link between no rights and rights was the apprentice systems in big cities run by merchant classes
anything below yeomen aka freemen of city were not classed as commons
House of Lords for aristocrats
house of common for peepo with rights
below commons were the chaff the cattle the serfs
city of London franchise expanded into new world not long after claiming certain cities fora yeoman warders and the freemen in the 3 kingdoms
it led to civil war when the peepo in city of London felt foreigners were infringing on their merchant monopoly rights and the apprentice boys of London not unlike the brown shirts of nazi world but 100s years earlier went on rampage regularly smashing up any foreign merchants who they felt were not playing to their rules in their world.
city of London started the civil war
to create a republic system fora peepo the commons
And to this day the apprentice boy systems of feudal era refer to themselves as ra peepo who have rights
under classes or foreigners have none
but you would need to scour through the academic papers from pre glorious revolt to see the system since it would appear any books on the constitution of uk are non existent
the constitution is there its just not available to read openly unless you go through the ancient charters of which most have never been repealed allowing certain things to be legal that you would expect in modern democracy to be illegal
but as long as its never contested in highest courts
it will remain in the esoteric realm of constitutional law
the peepo always meant something specific
it was yeoman class and above who had real voting rights
to get from non peepo status to peepo stats you must be invited through the guild systems and serve as an apprentice
its the masonic system before it became manifest in 1717 under whiggamore cattle driver governments of uk under their glorious revolution