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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Weenie such calls for a vote are not because of a dislike or anything negative towards scots as a people but this issue just won't go away even when the snp say it's a once in a generation thing. Repeated independence referendums create issue's for the entire UK not least because independence would severely affect the structure of the UK. I know the majority of scots don't want another vote but on the flip side a lot of scots voted for the snp whose only purpose is independence so it sends a bit of a mixed signal and it's not as though they are voting for the snp on their stellar handling of the usual services and such.
The last campaign was highly damaging both for the people of scotland and the image of scotland and now wanting to do it all again so soon is going to provoke negative views and opinions.
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Scottish politics is a bit more nuanced than you're suggesting, Rizz. The SNP has been very good at making itself look like a centre left social democratic party and the natural alternative to Labour in Scotland. At the last Scottish elections they spent a good deal of time saying "what referendum?" and accusing Labour, Tories and the rest of being obsessed with the subject. There are therefore a significant number of people who voted SNP in the last Scottish elections, and indeed the last UK elections, who don't support independence and believed that in voting SNP, normally as an alternative to voting Labour, they were not voting for a referendum.
Fewer of them are likely to make the same mistake next time.
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