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Originally Posted by LondonRoad
Twas worse than that. The Better together campaign repeatedly empahasised that the only way Scotland were guaranteed membership of the EU was to reject independence.
There seems to be quite a few No voters now saying that they would vote for independence because of this significant shift in the political landscape.
The United Kingdom seems to be less united than ever.
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Yes. The stability argument has gone for Better Together this time as has the 'you won't be able to join the EU' argument. I also think the vote was far better evidence of a division between Scotland and England than anything the SNP has come up with so far.
My hope is that Sturgeon doesn't have the appetite for the risk involved. If they have this vote now and they lose, independence is over for a long time. There are still problems facing Scottish Independence, questions over how a retained EU membership for Scotland would work and of course the price of oil. So it's not 100% they'll win although I think they probably will.
A lot of it probably depends on if the EU give Scotland any indication they'll stay. If the EU really wanted to screw us then they would offer Scotland our terms (minus keeping the pound I guess) and they would give her encouragement to run with it.
As you've said though there are a lot of switchers now. If that support is sustained it's curtains for the UK.