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Old 16-11-2020, 23:48   #3504
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Re: Will Scotland Leave the UK?

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
BoJo gives the Scottish independence cause a helping hand.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54965585
Relax, everything a Tory does or doesn’t do, gives independence a helping hand (or so we’re always told). It’s pretty much priced in.

Besides, he’s right, devolution is a disaster, because it was designed with the assumption that Labour would always be the largest party in Holyrood and the eternally successful New Labour project would be in power in London as often as not. It was recklessly constructed without any consideration for what would happen if the governing party in Edinburgh actively sought out and exploited its weaknesses. The SNP is very good at maximising grievance, complaining that it doesn’t have the powers to Make Scotland Great Again and not properly exercising the significant powers that it actually does have.

The Tories have had a good showing in Scotland of late but the nationalist madness isn’t really going to end until Scottish Labour works out what it’s supposed to be for, an exercise it hasn’t seriously undertaken for the best part of a century since it started taking the Scottish voters for granted. The SNP is being almost entirely propped up by the votes of the scunnered working classes of Glasgow and Dundee, who at present continue to buy the lie that independence will pave their closes with gold (as opposed to the reality, which is that the poor always suffer most at times of great social and economic upheaval, which is precisely what the SNP’s independence would be).
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