If Scotland secede from the UK

[The2ndAmendment]

Which has a more than 50% chance of happening now, it will be the first time a Far Left territory has seceded from its tax base.

Let's see what happens!

Scotland secession could lead to re-Balkanization of Europe - The Washington Post

The ripple effects would not be limited to the United Kingdom. Other separatist movements in Europe are watching the Scottish debate with undisguised interest. In Spain, more than a million Catalans have turned out in the streets calling for independence. In the Basque Country, separatist violence has waned, but the desire for a separate state remains. In Belgium, whose unity hangs on a thread, Flemish nationalists have made it clear that if Scotland has a free pass to the European Union and NATO, they would be next in line. There could be more breakaways to come.

Although the Scottish Independence Movement is heavily far left, such a secession would also have a MAJOR MEDIA IMPACT in the United States as well. First, our chief ally (UK) would now be severely diminished and destabilized. Second, the idea that people can vote to secede --- the Ninth and Tenth Amendments reserve those rights to the People and the Several States, even if the North won the Civil War and forced them back into the Union, secession is legal nonetheless. There would be a "mini-Enlightenment" and the talk of secession, NSA, NDAA and gun grabbing would be at the forefront of American politics.

 

[percysunshine]

Far Left?

Care to back that up?

 

[auditor0007]

Which has a more than 50% chance of happening now, it will be the first time a Far Left territory has seceded from its tax base.

Let's see what happens!

Scotland secession could lead to re-Balkanization of Europe - The Washington Post

The ripple effects would not be limited to the United Kingdom. Other separatist movements in Europe are watching the Scottish debate with undisguised interest. In Spain, more than a million Catalans have turned out in the streets calling for independence. In the Basque Country, separatist violence has waned, but the desire for a separate state remains. In Belgium, whose unity hangs on a thread, Flemish nationalists have made it clear that if Scotland has a free pass to the European Union and NATO, they would be next in line. There could be more breakaways to come.

It's not happening. A certain percentage of Scots have called for secession for ages, but the majority of Scots are not that dumb to get sucked into that line of thinking.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

It's not happening. A certain percentage of Scots have called for secession for ages, but the majority of Scots are not that dumb to get sucked into that line of thinking.

Except everyone thinks it's going to happen...

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Far Left?

Care to back that up?

They admit that... That's the stronghold of the Labor Party you dimwit.

 

[Moonglow]

Scotland had a chance to leave GB when they defeated them..but didn't...

 

[percysunshine]

Far Left?

Care to back that up?

They admit that... That's the stronghold of the Labor Party you dimwit.

Ok....I did more research....my wit is undimmed.

 

[frigidweirdo]

It's not happening. A certain percentage of Scots have called for secession for ages, but the majority of Scots are not that dumb to get sucked into that line of thinking.

Except everyone thinks it's going to happen...

No they don't. Polls go backwards and forwards however it never gets to the point where people think it will happen.

UK Polling Report

Most recent yes is 35%, highest in the last year was 38%, hardly going to be "the people think it will happen", especially when 41% is the lowest no vote on there, but which hangs around the 50% mark on average.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Far Left?

Care to back that up?

They admit that... That's the stronghold of the Labor Party you dimwit.

Scotland is more left wing than England. However the SNP is a Nationalist party which could be considered right wing on certain things and populist left wing on others.

Scotland is generally poorer than England, or poorer than Southern England at least. Yes they have the oil but Glasgow and Edinburgh, for example, are northern cities which aren't doing as well as southern.

 

[Kondor3]

Perhaps the Irish should take advantage of the confusion to complete their own Reconquista in the North?

And then send troops to Scotland to protect their ethnic Celt and Briton ethnic brethren?

And hold a plebiscite asking whether Scotland should secede from the United Kingdom along with Ireland, and make Scotland part of the Celtic Federation?

 

[frigidweirdo]

Perhaps the Irish should take advantage of the confusion to complete their own Reconquista in the North?

And then send troops to Scotland to protect their ethnic Celt and Briton ethnic brethren?

And hold a plebiscite asking whether Scotland should secede from the United Kingdom along with Ireland, and make Scotland part of the Celtic Federation?

Unfortunately Northern Ireland is majority Unonist.

 

[Grandma]

Scotland's "secesssion" would be no different from Canada's. They'd have their own government, yet they'd still be subjects of the Crown.