Post by thomas on Jan 28, 2023 14:21:23 GMT
In fact, the UK govt. could hardly have done any more to help the independence movement over the past 6 or 7 years with all of the shenanigans at Westminster, culminating in Johnson and Truss, and the UKIP-lite Tory parliamentary party currently ensconced on the government benches. If the dial didn’t move massively and permanently in favour of independence against that back-drop then when will it ever?
Of course, the Indy movement, with its obsession and focus on securing another referendum, and on creating and exploiting petty grievance stirring opportunities (which doubtless kept the faithful happy but left most of the rest of us feeling unmoved or cold at best) failed spectacularly to take advantage of this ripest of opportunities, and now that window is narrowing and will soon be closed when a Labour govt. takes over power.
Lets deal in fact rather than speculation.
In 2014 , scotland voted to stay in a uk that was in the EU. Fact.
When asked the question on the EU two years later , an even higher percentage of scots voted to remain in the EU , but England took us out. Fact.
Clearly at the time scotland wanted both unions , but now cant have both , so need to choose.
If the uk government ,however unwillingly , can agree by international treaty for one part of the current yookay to have an independence referendum every seven years , then scotland can have the same.
I dont think anyone is under any illusion or suprised that the uk government doesnt want to publicly talk about scotish indy anymore , and wishes to quietly brush it all under the carpet and hope us jocks get back in our boxes.
Thats too bad. The power ,as anyone with an ounce of sense knows , doesnt lie with the imperial overlord .......it lies with the people under thier rule. When the people get tired of that rule , the uk ends.
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.