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Originally Posted by Chris
A third amusing strand of separatist rhetoric is the continual reference to the 17th and 18th centuries as evidence that Scotland is somehow a prisoner. How desperately they wish to forget their leaders declared a “once-in-a-generation, if not once-in-a-lifetime” referendum, whose result, just 6 short years ago, was Scotland’s continued partnership in the U.K.
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You are the one who contested that Scotland has in the past benefitted from the Union. I simply agreed with you, I fail to see how that can be considered “rhetoric”.
I’m asking someone to make a 21st century case for one.
“Once in a generation, once in a lifetime“ was an obvious error to say, as it has no legal standing and you cannot reasonably bind those joining the electorate to the decisions of the past for longer beyond the point where it is no longer democratically tolerable. Politicians got caught up in some grandiose rhetoric to underline the historic occasion upon them, but it’s demonstrably ridiculous to bind a country to a decision for “a lifetime” considering tens of thousands die, and join the electorate, each year - never mind some change their mind.