You are bang on about that divide, i have been stressing this every now and again. And how big it is getting. And if this thread is even a teeny sampler, comments like we pay for your perks, if it was up to england you'd be independent etc. show it, i actually can't off the top of my head think of any nationalistc jibes from any of the scottish posters here, notbin a while anywlway. Yes ok we can debate whose oil it is (i don'treally care about the oil tbf), that it is a nation not a region etc, but that f.u. sentiment, is pretty damn one sided.
Brexit has very much sped that up, not just in difference, but in the buoyant attitudes that have become acceptable commonplace. Indyref started it coming out to the surface. I would like to think most of those making such remarks didnt think that way pre 2014, but who knows. Either way, pretty damn entrenched now. Whereas, from how i understand what i read, many of the scot posters still seem to have some degree of flexibility and room to make minds up.
I myself feel that, economy, politics and technicalities aside, socially and culturally, the differences are so vast now that i genuinely can't see a way back, the way things are going. Both politicians also tapping into this and using these ideals to sell themselves and get numbers behind them doesn't help any. Nicola knows fine well she is winning votes by policies that care for all parts of society of any background, because people welcome that. Boris similarly has made a point of prioritising those who 'feel left behind' or think 'that they deserve more'. It's not like people don't see through that. Thing is, with nicola, i take it as a bit less cynical, as she has at least been a lefty activist all her life. With boris, i see it as opportunism, like his two letters on brexit.
It isn't in the slightest bit pleasant, typing the above btw, and this divide is certainly not one thing i like at all.
