What matters is the motivation to make it work. There was none whilst the UK was still a member - there would be where a nation was being forced to leave against its will. For example if the referendum took place within the two year exit window and Independence won then all that would happen would be that three regions of the UK left and one remained. They wouldn't need to fast track a process where Scotland never left.

No.. you and Kermit are being silly.

The SNP and Sturgeon are just blatant opportunists, trying to get traction for their own agenda.

Remind me where on the voting slip it mentioned anything about the decision to leave being dependent on Scotland voting overwhelmingly for it?

As I stated before Scotland represents less than 7% of the UK population.

The poison dwarf was told as I have said previously that IF the UK leaves then so does Scotland there are no special clauses for Scotland and whether or not Scotland have another referendum, which I doubt very much as again the poison dwarf has been told in no uncertain terms by our prime minister they had their chance and the Scottish people voted to stick with the UK. You cannot keep having votes here there and everywhere just to please the losers. WHEN we leave so does Scotland and the way their finances are at the moment the EU will not take them back as it would be like another Greece in the pack....NO MONEY!

Supported Palace for over 69 years since the age of 7 and have seen all the ups and downs and will probably see many more ups and downs before I go up to the big football club in the sky.

I would still expect representatives from California to oppose Trump, and push for the interests of those who elected them.

The people of Scotland. Now I do agree, that they are bound by the referendum on the EU, but that its a contradictory position compared to the independence referendum.

The SNP are representing their constituents, who clearly aren't keen on leaving the EU, but also want to remain in the UK. Realistically, I think that ultimately results in another referendum on Scottish independence.

Oddly, I wouldn't be surprised to see at least one of the UK political parties at the next general election pursue campaign on a second referendum. For someone like the Greens or Liberal Democrats it could really garner them political capital.

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Where I live there were a number of other issues on the ballot too. e.g. Whether to approve a casino, a bond to help the local university to expand its engineering programs, etc. I like being able to vote for things like that. The system is not perfect, but it does allow people to vote on things that too often are pushed through parliament or Congress via a pork barrel.

In Vermont they still have the only town meeting day in the nation (they used to be the norm). Whereby the town meets and votes on the town's budget, line by line. Whole family's show up, and a buddy and I went one year with a picnic, and sat for the day and voted.

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If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Taking your post para by para:

1. You can flip that round and say it's weird for the SNP to demand freedom and self-governance from the UK but wish to be a part of the European Union.

2. Scotland did have the right to determine whether to be a part of a larger union. It voted as part of the UK in the EU referendum. It had just as much of a say as every other part of the country. Just because it moans the most about it doesn't give it special status. They've also had their own Indyref, how much more of a say does it want???

3. The fault for that lies squarely at the door of the SNP. For what it's worth, I think the Scots would never be daft enough to vote for independence, and are actually even less likely to now than they were before Brexit.

4. The SNP didn't win a majority in the Scottish Parliament so they can't call a referendum as they're (just) outnumbered by unionist parties anyway.

5. Agreed.

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