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I posted this and went out for the day, so I'm a bit late now to comment but here goes. I'm Scottish and I voted no the first time round. My arguement was alwa
by binbag 4y ago
I posted this and went out for the day, so I'm a bit late now to comment but here goes.
I'm Scottish and I voted no the first time round. My arguement was always "I've more in common with people from Manchester, Liverpool or London than I do with Highlanders and 'nationalists'" (I'm in Glasgow, which is the third largest UK city and the largest in Scotland). But then we were taken out of the EU and since then the UK has become (been unmasked as?) very right wing, led by a deeply unpleasant right wing of the nominally centre-right Tory party. Centre-left politics (primarily social but also economic) have been ruined, as a result of various factors at play in the last 5 years or so. My kinship with other UK cities is no longer reason enough to support the union.
I manage a company registered in Scotland and it is now as difficult for us to do business with France or Spain as with India or Canada. Unlike those business owners who like the idea of a captive UK market, I want our company to compete and export globally, and we have been deprived of simple access to the world's largest trading bloc.
As for the prospect of an independent Scotland joining the EU, I see no hurdles to that. Now that the UK has left the EU, it is absolutely in the EU's interest to allow Scotland, having left the EU unwillingly, to rejoin.
For these reasons I'm inclined to vote yes if a second referendum is held, but I'm not 100% sure and could change my mind depending on the economic and social plans put forward.