Quote Originally Posted by noahrab View Post
Any referendum will fail unless the SNP start coming up with answers to the economic conundrum. Honesty is required which is a trait sadly lacking in most politicians but more so the SNP. They rely on independence supporters being too thick to understand basic economics.

Anyway, won’t be one anytime soon.
You are right that the economic fundamentals are a problem that the indenpendence supporters have not managed to solve but I think the Brexit vote had the same flaws and yet it was voted through. The difference was that it wasn't a referendum where the people were asked whether they wanted to leave the EU or stay. They voted for political parties and the one that favoured Brexit on the ballot paper won.

I think that if we had had a referendum then the vote might have been in favour of Remain.

We have this situation in Scotland where many people vote for the SNP not because they want independence but because they represent something that is supposed to be distinctly Scottish and not part of either Labour, Conservatives or Lib-Dems.