Re: Breakup of the UK
Originally Posted by
scot37
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Democracy was served in 2014. You cannot keep holding referendums until you get the result you want.
Surely we are in a scenario of fundamentally different situation? In Indyref1 we had a UK in the EU and a EU bunch of politicians against breakaway regions joining the EU. And a UK struggling to deal with self-imposed austerity and come out of the 2008-10 recession.
Now we have an England determined to come out of the EU at any cost, an EU more willing to consider countries such as Scotland as entrants (please, we know there will be preconditions), and a Scottish mindset clearer that the English economic/social aspiration is not that of Scotland. England seeks free market, neo-liberal, low regulation, low cost, low tax, low pay economy. Scotland is, as it has traditionally been, much more sympathetic to the Northern European model. It is time for a break.
I just feel sorry for northern English who will look 30-40 miles north and prefer that country to the southern wealthy run England they live in.