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**Chris** · 20-01-2016, 20:14

Wee Nippy's threats of a fresh referendum in the event of a vote to leave the EU is a lot of hot air. It's party management, pure and simple. There are about 100,000 permanently outraged Yessers in the ranks of the SNPee now and the last thing she wants is them getting rowdy, or worse, defenestrating her for not being nationalist enough. So, she plays to the gallery and keeps them hanging on.

Meanwhile, those in the nationalist movement with a brain (and there are some), know that the fundamentals of Scottish independence have not changed. For most Scottish voters it is a simple calculation of convenience, primarily economic convenience. Scots may prefer the EU, but they know that being in the UK, even if it is outside the EU, is preferable to being in the EU but outside the UK. The arguments over economic and monetary policy in 2014 were decisive and have not changed (if anything they have got worse, and it doesn't help the Nats that some of those that drew up the so-called white paper have now admitted that they knew it was nonsense on stilts even then).

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,134	re: [Update] The UK votes to leave the EU Wee Nippy's threats of a fresh referendum in the event of a vote to leave the EU is a lot of hot air. It's party management, pure and simple. There are about 100,000 permanently outraged Yessers in the ranks of the SNPee now and the last thing she wants is them getting rowdy, or worse, defenestrating her for not being nationalist enough. So, she plays to the gallery and keeps them hanging on. Meanwhile, those in the nationalist movement with a brain (and there are some), know that the fundamentals of Scottish independence have not changed. For most Scottish voters it is a simple calculation of convenience, primarily economic convenience. Scots may prefer the EU, but they know that being in the UK, even if it is outside the EU, is preferable to being in the EU but outside the UK. The arguments over economic and monetary policy in 2014 were decisive and have not changed (if anything they have got worse, and it doesn't help the Nats that some of those that drew up the so-called white paper have now admitted that they knew it was nonsense on stilts even then).