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Originally Posted by Chris
She’s marmite, that’s for sure. The polls may have swung slightly the other side of the separatist divide in recent weeks - doubtless entirely because of Covid - but Scotland is still, essentially, split right down the middle thanks to 6 years of her agitating and fostering division rather than healing. She has caused a mess that will take a generation to fix and if (a mighty big if) there was another referendum, delivering a Yes vote, then Scotland would become a very unpleasant place to live for years into the future. For all the Nats’ banging on about separatist movements in places like Norway, successful votes to hive off part of a nation state are invariably carried by comfortable, sometimes overwhelming, majorities. A Yes by a whisker is the worst possible outcome, for all involved.
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In almost any other democracy, and certainly those multi-party systems, splitting the country “down the middle” and carrying 50% of the vote consistently after 13 years in Government that would reasonably be considered resounding success.
What Brown would have given for that in 2010. I’m sure Boris would settle for that in 2022/7.