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The legal opinion and verdict of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom will matter very little the moment the Scottish Parliament truly decides to legislate i
by phoe-krk 4y ago
The legal opinion and verdict of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom will matter very little the moment the Scottish Parliament truly decides to legislate independence. It'll end in use of force, as usual in these cases.
- smcl 4y agoI think we are really far from Scotland unilaterally declaring independence and England rolling in with tanks.
- idontwantthis 4y agoIf only because Scotland has the nukes.
- smcl 4y agoThe British military (certainly the Army) are really, really loyal to the crown. That the British nuclear subs are based in Faslane mean anything in this (extremely extremely unlikely, fictional) scenario - the military would without question all side with the union whether they're stationed north or south of the border.
- OtomotO 4y agoOh boy, I hope you didn't jinx that one. A few years ago I couldn't imagine Brexit becoming a reality or someone invading... well, let's leave it at that.
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- mFixman 4y agoBrexit became a possibility the second UKIP became a threat to the electoral chances of the Conservative party. It's very likely that Labour would have won in 2015 if Cameron didn't promise that referendum. Scottish Labour already has a committed anti-independence position, so they likely will let the SNP win over doing a similar promise. The only other possibility is a coalition government with Labour, but I don't see any government making the same mistake after 2016.
- OtomotO 4y agoThanks for elaborating! For some reason I find British politics very interesting although never having set foot onto British soil.
- smcl 4y agoHa yeah. Honestly though if Nicola Sturgeon had the sort of control of Scottish politics (and "popularity") that Putin does in Russia or Orban in Hungary, then some kind of escalation could have been on the table. But I imagine she knows that making any kind of move like that would be political suicide and would kill off a lot of the hard-won support for independence that they've grown over the years.
- fnord123 4y agoYeah, do you really think British soldiers would murder unarmed British civilians on British soil!?
- pavlov 4y agoThat kind of thing would definitely raise Ire in the land.
- aldanor 4y agoTime to start finally building that [Irish Sea Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Sea_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Sea_Bridge)?
- causi 4y agoI can't tell if you're being sarcastic or if you've actually never heard of Bloody Sunday. Apologies if the former.
- fnord123 4y agoIf the soldiers really did that then don't you think Lance Corporal David James Cleary of the Parachute Regiment would have been arrested and charged with murder instead of covering it up and granting him anonymity as Soldier F?
- smcl 4y agoI don't get why your comments are downvoted. I think there must be a few people here who aren't aware of the actions of Lance Corporal David James Cleary of the Parachute Regiment aka Soldier F during Bloody Sunday - those being that he is accused of murders which were covered up, and was weirdly granted a level of anonymity during his trial for said murders.
- smcl 4y agoThe unilateral declaration of Scottish independence is the unlikely part. I am quite sure the Army would be willing to defend the union by committing the same sorts of acts they did in Ireland with the same level of enthusiasm.
- LatteLazy 4y agoYou're probably right but one thing that worries me is I think both governments would sort of like that result...
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoSo Scotland can become bigger Northern Ireland?