The Scotland Act was only last year - that was a major bit of discussion over the rights of Scotland, and what the remainder of the UK was willing to negotiate with us. I'm not convinced that there was any appetite to negotiate further.
Yeah – we could have negotiated further but we didn’t. So now we’re going to have a fight to discover what we probably already knew; that most Scot’s want more autonomy but want to remain in the UK for the time being. Two teams, sitting in trenches shooting at each other, both slowly realising that everyone else in the No Man’s Land they’ve created.
I think if one were a Unionist one might be irritated with one’s senior leadership who have turned a sitution where they could have had a vote on greater devolution within the UK and won by about 75% to 25% and turned it into a situation where the best possible outcome they will get is the highest ever vote for independence and looking like they’ve been scared into granting as few extra powers as they think they could get away with.
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Yeah – we could have negotiated further but we didn’t. So now we’re going to have a fight to discover what we probably already knew; that most Scot’s want more autonomy but want to remain in the UK for the time being. Two teams, sitting in trenches shooting at each other, both slowly realising that everyone else in the No Man’s Land they’ve created.
I think if one were a Unionist one might be irritated with one’s senior leadership who have turned a sitution where they could have had a vote on greater devolution within the UK and won by about 75% to 25% and turned it into a situation where the best possible outcome they will get is the highest ever vote for independence and looking like they’ve been scared into granting as few extra powers as they think they could get away with.