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Quite the case. One of the key reasons that the Scottish referendum in 2014 was not won was because of uncertainty about continued EU membership and the currenc

Quite the case. One of the key reasons that the Scottish referendum in 2014 was not won was because of uncertainty about continued EU membership and the currency that the country would use. To make that decision and less than two years later be dragged out of the EU anyway has pissed off a bunch of people. Lots of noise coming from former 'no' voters and media about how they feel misled. And now that Scotland has resoundingly - 24% margin! - voters to remain in the EU, it seems there is a bit of a mandate. I am not enjoying the atmosphere here at the moment. This whole thing has been a colossal fuckup which has permanently damaged the UK.

nolok 10y ago
> This whole thing has been a colossal fuckup which has permanently damaged the UK. For me that's the biggest take away from it; half of the scots voters said they wanted out of that union, which usually means "we don't feel that country represents us properly". Now, that's not irreparable and you have a perfect, even stronger example in recent times with Quebec and Canada. The solution was "simple"; listen to them and go their way, if only a little. Show them that you care about them being in. Laugh all you want about the French labels everywhere in Canada but they're basically Canada saying "ok Quebec, we need you, let's stay together". With that Brexit vote, the UK has thrown away one of the biggest thing scots were sure about; they wanted to be in the EU. Even if they manage to not lose them through independence, it has been marked in the sand that England decides and Scotland follows, even if they really don't want to. (I mean 68% for remain ? I'm not sure any other EU country would get that at the moment, maybe Germany)