If elections mean anything then Scotland has a right over its own future, which it has voted for 4 times in three years.
Slim...we have already done this.
There are 4 million voters in Scotland. 35% voted SNP. Of the people who did vote 45% voted SNP (1.4 million) yet 54% voted pro-union parties (1.5 million). And of the 45% that did vote SNP 25% of them voted for SNP tactically against Brexit and nothing to do with independence.
In 2015 49% voted SNP, just after the failed independence in 2014.
The SNP say Scotland have voted and now must be heard? SNP do not represent Scotland when more people voted for pro-union parties.
35% of voters voting SNP is not a majority. 45% of votes being for SNP is not a majority. The majority voted for pro-union parties.
Of the 48 seats won by SNP only 10 were won by 50% of the votes.
Scotland has no right to another indy referendum because a) nothing has changed since 2014 and b) the majority voted for pro-union parties last week.
Add in other factors like the SNP's horrendous track record with the powers devolved to it since 2007 and the £10 billion black hole in our finances if we went independent that we need to find its not too hard to see Westminster saying no.
If Scotland were independent our deficit would be 7% and as the SNP's own Growth Commission report outlined in 2018 it would take decades of tax rises and austerity measures to get it down to 3% just to apply to get into the EU.
Nothing about independence makes any sense financially. The UK know this as their deficit is 1% and they support Scotland.
£65 billion is raised in taxes in Scotland but we spend £73 billion. Where would the money come from?
Then there is the divorce bills...setting up a currency...Foreign Office, bank regulating body, armies, defence etc. Everyone knows a divorce costs you but when you are ten billion down already???
I say Boris gives the mandate to have it in 2020 because the SNP would crap themselves given the stats indicate if anything independence is less likely than in 2014.
Then the SNP can get on with their day jobs and sort out the utter mess that our NHS and education system is in.
I'm a passionate Scot about my country and there is huge issues with independence and huge benefits being in the union.
I still scratch my head at the reason why we need indyref2 is because we are being pulled out of the EU when we trade 23% with the EU but trade 60% with the UK.
How can coming of of the EU be bad affecting 23% of our trade but pulling out of the UK affecting 60% of our trade be good?
We voted in 2014...that should be respected.
#makesnosense
