If this vote is yes, and #Scotland is independent, does it mean its forever? If things don’t go as planned, could Scotland vote again to rejoin the UK?
People are discussing consequences of independence. I’m just wondering that if independence doesn’t bring hoped for results, is Scotland allowed to change their minds in another vote?
I understand there are serious repercussions from this, but not sure if irreversible damage is done as a result of this potential split.
If a bare majority vote for independence, will those who voted against independence move to secede from Scotland? Will there be two Scotlands like there are two Irelands?
Referendums cant be hold for another five years.
BUT the SNP would have to keep winning the Scots elections and pass another bill to hold another vote. IMO if the NO’s win, we’ll see a resurgence of antinationalism: Labour, Tories, UKIP, Liberal Democrats. Esp Labour.
If Scotland was to leave, there is no way they would ever get back in. Firstly, even if they realised what a catastrophic error they had made, they could never turn round and admit it, it would be an abject of utter national humiliation. They’d just have to carry on muddling along as best as they could.
Secondly, they’d have to face a referendum from the people of rUK on letting them back in, and I can’t see people here wanting to do that after the Scots had just told us to go and f ourselves because they thought they could create a socialist paradise using all the oil they’d took with them from the North Sea. The attitude would be ‘you jacks made your bed sleep in it’. Even now, there are plenty of little Englanders, growing in number, who after years of resentment at the Scots having devolution but nothing for England, want Scotland to get out and are rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of watching the Nats fall on their faces, as they inevitably will because Salmond’s economic and monetary policies were basically scribbled on the back of an envelope whilst he was sitting on the toilet.
This whole dogs dinner that we have today is because of the utter uselessness of the main three parties, who have ensconced themselves in a London bubble for years, and failed to truly reform the UK into a federal nation as it should have been when Scottish and Welsh devolution was granted in 1999.