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Originally Posted by Damien
Sturgeon has worded it very carefully, she says single market. London will push for that too.
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Sturgeon dances round the ring like Muhammad Ali. Her statement was threaded right through with caveats. She had to make referendum noises this morning because her party has a massive lunatic fringe since 2014 and she can't afford a split, or even a hint of disunity. On the other hand she simply isn't stupid enough to call a referendum she might lose. She wants independence and she knows the next referendum will be the last, so she will keep her powder dry and only go for it when she knows she'll win.
What she really wants to do right now is ally the result in Scotland with that from London and NI in an attempt to give the nations and London the whip hand in planning for Brexit. It is very much in her interests to see the UK remain on good terms with the EU, because if the UK is totally disengaged it will make a future referendum argument all the more difficult. Scotland's economic and cultural ties are still overwhelmingly with England, not Europe, and she will lose any future argument that makes independence a straight choice between the two.