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The point is somewhat moot, because a majority of Scotland doesn't want independence: http://whatscotlandthinks.org/questions/how-would-you-vote-in-the-in-a-sco
by pebers 10y ago
The point is somewhat moot, because a majority of Scotland doesn't want independence:
http://whatscotlandthinks.org/questions/how-would-you-vote-in-the-in-a-scottish-independence-referendum-if-held-now-ask#line http://whatscotlandthinks.org/questions/how-would-you-vote-i...
And if it appears a referendum on independence wouldn't pass, one asking whether they should join Canada certainly won't, because it'd lose a lot of the force of nationalistic pride behind the independence campaign.
- ubernostrum 10y agoPolling models predicted that a majority of the UK population didn't want to leave the EU, so...
- rleigh 10y agoWe don't need to rely on polling though. We already had a actual referendum on the matter not less than three years ago.
- vertex-four 10y agoThen we went through a major political upheaval where the result on something that many Scottish people who voted No find quite important was something directly contrary to what the Scottish people wanted.
- pebers 10y agoYes, but Scotland had a referendum on this relatively recently, and polls prior to that were generally similar to how they are now, so it seems pretty reasonable to see the most likely outcome as another No vote.
- collyw 10y agoAnd we have seen how all the promises turned out to be lies after the vote. One of the major reasons for not splitting form the UK was that we would get to stay in Europe.
- pebers 10y agoIn what way was that a promise? The Conservatives clearly intended to hold a referendum (they had campaigned on it in 2010 but weren't able to get support from the Lib Dems) so future membership was already in question - although voting Yes would have meant Scotland's exit anyway.