Posted on 08/05/2019 3:25:00 PM PDT by Cronos
A majority of Scots are now in favour of independence amid growing uncertainty over the terms of Britain’s departure from the European Union, a major new survey has found.
... the result is 52% to 48% in favour of independence.
...First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the “phenomenal” result showed that Scots were unwilling to be “dragged towards a no-deal Brexit”, reports The Times.
“More and more people think it’s time that Scotland took our own decisions and shaped our own future as a fair, prosperous, outward-looking nation,” she said.
...The first referendum was described as a “once-in-a-generation” vote, but the SNP says the subsequent decision by the UK to leave the EU inexorably altered the terms of the last debate and effectively nullified the result.
The party argues that 62% of Scots voted to stay in the European Union in 2016, a far bigger margin than the 55% who voted to remain part of the UK back in 2014.
“It is arguable that the United Kingdom that Scotland voted to be a part of in 2014 no longer exists,” writes Louis Staples in The Independent. The fact that a majority of Scots face the prospect of being taken out of Europe against their will has only strengthened the case for a second referendum.
...A majority of Scots believed that Scotland would become independent, with only three in ten saying they thought the nation would vote to remain.
..The poll also revealed that 46% of Scots believe that a no-deal Brexit would be “disastrous for Scotland”, and 60% said Brexit made it more likely that Scotland would become independent in the foreseeable future.
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.co.uk ...
“The party argues that 62% of Scots voted to stay in the European Union in 2016,”
Gain independence from the UK, so you can join the EU...?
Doesn’t make any sense at all.
What is really phenomenal is that a majority of Scots want independence from the U.K. (given history, not unreasonable) but still are OK with being enslaved by the E.U.
Make Hadrian’s Wall great again! (and 10 feet higher)
They don’t makes Scots like they used to.
How will Scots feel when the call of the mussein is blaring from high mounted PS systems , at 10 til 5AM every morning , with the call to prayers ?
Adhering to the EU open borders and inviting to Muslim immigrants policies will ring just that . In every town and village
“They don’t make Scots like they used to.”
I think it’s an EU mandate or something.
I say this as an American with both Scots and English heritage (and Irish too but that’s another story)... be very careful what you wish for. My expectation is that the Scots think they can avoid paying certain expenses (like skipping national defense for one) that they pay now. Live off others as it were. Thank God my Scots ancestors left that socialist s______e. It’s beautiful (and cold and wet to my taste) but they peeps have lost their way.
Well, bye!
All of the good Scots left for Ulster, North America, and Australia hundreds of years ago; or died defending the Crown. Those who remain are like our own Democrat Party.
The Scots probably think that the U.K. isn’t importing the Middle East fast enough.
“They don’t makes Scots like they used to.”
The new Scots are brown. :)
Let the parts that want to go, just leave.
The parts that want to stay can become rump Scotland.
scotland is basically 1 big council estate that’s been sucking on the teet of the English taxpayer for generations. scotish independence would guarantee the labour party would never win another election
Scotland is basically now a sh*thole as is Ireland. What difference does it make?
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