The vote was the people of the UK unless every area that voted to remain admittedly not that many should declare itself independent.
All been covered, so i'll limit the repetition best i can.
Yes, indeed. And that is the point, for many, it shouldn't have.
If the UK is not a sum of its biggest part, then it is a union of four nations, which should all be equal or have an equal say, particularly in such monumental, arguably one-off, shifts.
Scotland, Wales and N.I are always going to get outvoted (outnumbered) by England, no matter what. I know, that's not England's fault for having that population, but neither is it the other three's for being smaller. Every country in the EU has a right to veto, regardless of its size. The democratically elected leader of a nation (two actually) requested that the referendum require an overall majority as well as a majority in each nation. This was denied, by a PM bullishly pandering to English nationalists (something he'd been doing a while).
So while that is what happened, i hope you can understand why i beleive it to be wrong. And as such, can't help feeling wronged.
And yes, ive read the arguements otherwise, and recognise some of the logic, but that is how i feel about it.
i do also appreciate it is a bit of a lose lose situation, i.e if brexit wasnt happening because Scotland and N.I didn't want it, but the UK numbers overall did, it would leave many (more) feeling wronged, and the resentment to scotland and the union (which is already evidently pretty fucking strong btw) would fester, on the English nationalist side (which is already evidently pretty fucking strong btw). Which in turn would further feed the snp narrative regardless. You'd hope that the unionism and logic of respecting all parts of the union equally would have prevailed, but honestly, who could truly say (and believe) that.
