Jdsk wrote: ↑29 Jun 2022, 7:42pm
Tangled Metal wrote: ↑29 Jun 2022, 1:39pm
I don't think SNP leadership really want independence. What will that get them? Their whole reason for existing will have been achieved and they might have to start looking around for another battle with a group a lot of Scots can hate as much as England and Westminster.
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Perhaps the SNP leadership and many of their supporters simply think that independence would be better for their country.
Beyond that they're a social democratic party with policies rather similar to many others.
Jonathan
I've heard several times now, from reliable sources North of the border that if the YES vote is successful, the SNP will disband (having achieved their primary objective) and open a new era of politics with the many emerging parties which have been brewing in Scotland over the past few years, in anticipation of this very thing. Radical political ideologies have always been part of the Scottish psyche.
Personally I think it would great to see an independent Scotland lead Europe in a new governmental system, because let's face it the one we have in England at the moment is utterly broken.
Lord knows what the Scots must think when they open the newspapers or turn on the telly. Perhaps the Scots on here can tell us? We may not like what they have to say.
Perhaps the break up of the UK will have positive benefits all round? I wouldn't criticise the Scots at all, it's Westminster politics that will be to blame for the dissolution of Britain, and in particular the corruption and underhand dirty politics of late. We've got no one to blame but ourselves, for voting in such a pile of political excrement.
Go Sturgeon!