Scottish Independence

[Coatigan]

Really? With respect, the SNP is the ideal vehicle for the traditional Scottish working class to ventilate its anti-English prejudice, particularly with the pro-Brexit alternatives on offer there. The supporters of the traditional left on both sides of the border also share an antipathy to 'metropolitan socialist' ideology which in England had no other place to go.

Aaand, shat the bed, again.

 

[Coatigan]

I think they have, bundled up with other factors. It's a key issue insofar as GE results are marshalled as evidence for independence. Not every vote for SNP is a separatist vote, there is much else in the SNP offer which appeals - nor least their hostility to the English.

read what the poster said.

Nobody claimed it gave them a mandate to leave the union.

 

[hilts]

I think the fairest thing to do is give Scotland its referendum post Brexit.

 

[George Hannah]

read what the poster said.
Nobody claimed it gave them a mandate to leave the union.

Not you, apart from its 'symbolical' significance - but here's one (there could be others)

They've just won 80% of the Scottish seats on a nationalist ticket. They absolutely have a mandate to ask the question again. Madness to suggest otherwise.

 

[blueinsa]

I think the fairest thing to do is give Scotland its referendum post Brexit.

Indeed.

 

[Coatigan]

Not you, apart from its 'symbolical' significance - but here's one (there could be others)

'ask the question again' is worlds away from 'leave the union'.

 

[joe123]

'ask the question again' is worlds away from 'leave the union'. C'mon.

Exactly. No one is saying they have the right to leave - they need to ask the question to have that right. And they now have the right to ask the question.

 

[George Hannah]

I think the fairest thing to do is give Scotland its referendum post Brexit.

How long after though? Too soon and it could be a real 'Scottish Tragedy'. Trapped in grinding poverty as a remote and unloved EU satellite behind a new Hadrian's wall - pitied by an unexpectedly successful and independent UK.

 

[Coatigan]

I think the fairest thing to do is give Scotland its referendum post Brexit.

Maybe. But that decision is for the Scots to make, and the Scottish parliament, and those they elect to represent them.

 

[Metal Biker]

I think the fairest thing to do is give Scotland its referendum post Brexit.

Which union do the people of Scotland wish to belong; the UK union or the European union.

Fair's fair. But as you say, and I cannot emphasise this enough; POST-brexit.