Scotland will consider independence vote after Brexit clarity, says Sturgeon
Source: Politico-Europe
Scotlands first minister says she wouldnt block another vote on EU membership.
By JACOPO BARIGAZZI 5/20/18, 2:13 PM CET Updated 5/20/18, 2:14 PM CET
Nicola Sturgeon will consider another vote on independence when Westminster offers greater certainty on Brexit, Scotlands first minister said Sunday.
Once we get some clarity, which hopefully we will in autumn of this year, about the Brexit outcome and the future relationship between the U.K and the EU, then I will consider again the question of the timing of an independence referendum, she said on ITV s Peston on Sunday program.
Sturgeon also said her Scottish National Party would not block a vote on any Brexit final deal, but worried about what would happen if the different parts of the U.K voted for different outcomes in the same way they did in 2016.
In the Brexit referendum, Scotland voted in favor of the U.K staying in the EU by 62 percent to 38 percent. Sturgeon said after that vote that Scotland had delivered a strong, unequivocal vote to remain in the EU.
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TimeSnowDemos
(476 posts)Scotland will be free and Ireland reunited... If Brexit happens.
OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)Most likely first
1 Brexit doesn't happen
2 Brexit does happen
3 Scotland becomes independent
47 United Ireland
Voltaire2
(13,023 posts)which Irish integration has already happened within the EU framework and how massively painful implementation of brexit would be. It just might be the catalyst that ends the 400 year sectarian conflict.
OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)section of this island who will never accept a United Ireland. The Good Friday agreement says a UI cannot happen without a plebiscite on both sides of the border, it's not a gimme that some might think.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)it's a slow process but it looks like the kids now are growing up with much less of the old bigot nonsense. It might take a couple of more generations but the future looks good.
How are the Irish young ones on both sides of the border? Are they getting tired of the fighting or learning how to better fight?
OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)distant from the cycle of violence, and that's great, but there is still that unease amongst predominately the working class. While passing time is good for peace, I believe it has the opposite effect on any prospect of a United Ireland. We're coming up 100 years of an independent republic and 100 years away from being British.
A friend of mine, from Moville, just over the border from Derry, said she had more in common with me down in Cork, than those a few miles away in Derry. Many of the young Catholics in Ulster, identify themselves as Northern Irish and are content within the current structure. If they can't also see themselves as European, that may change.
From a southern point of view, the economic cost of taking in the North has been glossed over, but could potentially be crippling.
paleotn
(17,912 posts)Lets hope the next few generations think better of a united Ireland.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)ever thought that the IRA would lay down their weapons and make peace, either, but it happened. Over 20 years ago, and that peace had held. I never thought I'd ever live to see the day. Perhaps you feel the same way. So, maybe there is hope for reunification.
Eire Aontaithe, Le Cunamh De.
TimeSnowDemos
(476 posts)Except that I'd say if it DOES then they're all essentially guaranteed on a long enough time line.
OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)get there, but there would be another vote. The electorate voted Leave based on lies, but more importantly, not knowing the terms of their departure.
jrandom421
(1,003 posts)All the planning and scheming Mary and James did to take over the throne and unite Britain under Scottish rule comes to nothing because of these clowns.