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In reply to the discussion: Scottish referendum predictions thread. [View all]LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)I don't think it would have been good for workers or the poor, either way.
There would have been a lot of expensive chaos for at least a couple of years after a Yes vote, and guess which groups would have suffered the most (not the very rich, for sure!) And if times were different, the EU could have helped out and kept things relatively stable, but they're in a mess too at the moment.
Not good news of course that the Scots have to continue under the rule of a Tory government that most of them didn't vote for!
If the British government are scared enough to increase devolution as they promised; not to mention refraining in the future from using Scotland as a lab rat for horrible policies like the poll tax, as Thatcher did, then something good will have come out of the referendum.