Scotland

590 readers

20 users here now

Fàilte gu Alba!

Mon in tae Scotland!

Welcome to Scotland!

Quick rules:

dinnae be a cunt
posts should relate tae Scotland

Have at it, and haste ye back

Related communities

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Support for Scottish Independence is Generational and Inexorable (bellacaledonia.org.uk)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

18 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Fuck all good news, so here's some opinion. Unionists will dismiss the polling company, but me - an ex-cybernet - dismisses the NI fudge. I'd rather see control of a referendum tied to an election result or Scottish MPs get a vote with which rUK MPs don't get to overturn. It is interesting that Kezia even comes round to these ideas though, I do wonder given another 5 years where she will be

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Few things are inevitable. But support doesn't seem to be dropping even 11 years after the first vote. I'm not certain when the next will be, it took from 79 to 97 to get a second devolution vote. But it looks untenable to me for His Majesty's Government to deny the Scottish people a vote based on their actual election choices

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, they'll keep harping on about "once in a generation" as if multiple loads of crap hadn't hit the fan. Brexit of course being the big one, but Labour following up the Tories with more austerity and generally conservative governance also won't help.

The upcoming (Scottish) election cycle will probably matter a lot for indy and seeing how Scotland reacts to Labour. The SNP did get hit by a lot of scandals so things might get shaken up a bit. I wonder how many will put another referendum as one of their main points.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The need to unshackle ourselves from brexit britain isn't going anywhere, I suspect cosying up to Trump isn't going to help the UK either. Calls to rejoin the EU are only growing louder

Scotland should have that option

[–] my_hat_stinks 4 points 1 week ago

The "once in a generation" argument was always bullshit but over time it's just got more and more ridiculous. If we had an independence referendum today people who were five years old in the last one could now vote. How could any sane person consider that the same generation?