Scotland better be careful what it asks for. If they break away from England, they will have to pay for their own welfare programs. The EU certainly isn’t going to do it.
We’ve had our referendum (2014):
Supporting separation: 1,617,989
Supporting our Union: 2,001,926
And this with an electorate artificially increased by the SNP to include 16 year old schoolies and EU citizens.
While the 2015 GE saw the SNP painting the electoral map yellow, winning 56 of Scotland’s 59 seats, this was courtesy of little more than a third of our electorate, such are the vagaries of Constituency FPTP. And in 2017, the SNP haemorrhaged votes, losing almost half a million, along with 21 MPs; even in the seats they held, their majorities were slashed.
One prominent SNPer saw his 9,641 majority reduced to 21.
At Glasgow East, the SNP saw a 10,387 majority reduced to 75.
At Glasgow South West, their 9,950 majority was reduced to 60.
At Fife North East, their previous majority of 4,344 was reduced to 2. 2! T-W-O, TWO!
In total, SNP votes were down 32.79% from 2015. From representing barely a third of Scotland’s electorate in Westminster, the SNP now represent less than a quarter—24.51%.
In contrast, the Conservatives saw their votes increase 74.6% making them the second party in Scotland in both votes and MPs. Maybe not in the rest of Britain but June 8 was a Tory night in Scotland—and as Ulster’s Arlene Foster (DUP) remarked, it was a ‘good night for the Union’.
Enjoy the OP’s Berlin story for what it is… hilarious. This is what Scottish separatists are reduced to: a few—or just a couple even—dozen parading outside the Reichstag. The ““““““““Reichstag”””””””” (good optics). Could they BE any more embarrassing?
The Union is safe. God Save the Queen.