Interesting. I don't know enough about how these things work to have an opinion about how likely this is. But it's a couple of years off, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
I am surprised to keep reading that "results suggested a strong wish to keep Scotland's 307-year union with England". I mean I'm glad that Scotland stayed in the union, but surely 54% of the vote isn't that great a majority when it suggest that nearly half of the voters did want a change?
Agreed. Maybe it's because ALL of my friends in Scotland were very firmly in the yes camp, but I kind of got the idea that there were a bunch who were reluctant no voters, some of whom even regretted it after the fact, and a lot who were scared about things like whether they'd get to keep the pound, the NHS, and their pensions.
Honestly, I get the "yes" side. I don't think it's racism/nationalism-- the SNP is nothing like UKIP or BNP. Scotland has, in recent years, been consistently more progressive than the rest of the UK, and they have to deal with a Tory government in London at the moment.
From what I remember hearing from a survey, the majority of younger people were voting yes, but the majority of older people were voting to stay with the UK, so if there is another vote in 50 years or so then it's very likely to go the other way I suppose
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ETA: the parliamentary union is 307 years old. The union of the crowns is roughly a century older.
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Honestly, I get the "yes" side. I don't think it's racism/nationalism-- the SNP is nothing like UKIP or BNP. Scotland has, in recent years, been consistently more progressive than the rest of the UK, and they have to deal with a Tory government in London at the moment.
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