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The worst outcome is increasingly looking like what will actually materialise: a narrow margin. It doesn't matter who wins, if either side does not win with at
by PaulRobinson 12y ago
The worst outcome is increasingly looking like what will actually materialise: a narrow margin.
It doesn't matter who wins, if either side does not win with at least 60% of the electorate, it's going to undermine their position going forward. We could see Referendum v2.0 in 2-10 years, quite easily.
Nobody on either side wants that, but it's starting to feel inevitable.
- fidotron 12y agoIndeed. I can't see the rest of the country being happy with a limbo that ends up giving Scotland ever more powers in order to prevent a by then meaningless "No" in the next round while they all live in statusquoville. Combined with the apparent rise of UKIP the situation is all looking to be a bit of a mess. The SNP may have successfully engineered the divisive conditions that the Parti Quebecois never quite managed, with the PQ example being that the uncertainty is almost more damaging than what is being debated.