I’m not surprised. Most people vote their heads than their hearts.
Scottish nationalists got an unambiguous question posed before the voters and they lost. People just thought in the end the benefits of independence weren’t worth the risk.
>> Most people vote their heads than their hearts.
Really? “Thinking people” voted in Obama? TWICE??!? Somehow I doubt that.
A predictable, yet ultimately insignificant loss. That the Scott did so well towards Independence is indeed a sign of the times. But Allegiances don’t change without causes dire, and had the English had a more intolerable attitude there would be no contestant in the case for Independence except with the English.
As for the Risks, I find it laughable how vastly overstated they were by various men of power worried needlessly about their vast investments and global financial empires being ticked by a slightly more diverse legal landscape.
Would it have hurt the economy of Scotland? seriously i doubt it, although that very much depended upon the subsequent will of the Scottish people and government towards internalal and domestic trade. Frankly if the Scot’s can’t trust themselves they have no business trusting the English either.