Quote Originally Posted by WBA123 View Post
I'm not sure 'much of the country wants to leave' is a fair reflection. The referendum was 5/6 years ago where they voted to stay and the last Scottish independence poll I saw a few weeks ago was in favour of remaining in the UK rather than leaving. And this business with Sturgeon and Salmond probably won't help support the leave argument.

Scotland, in my opinion, is an important part of the UK. It doesn't make any sense to me English people who want Scotland to leave the UK, but don't say the same about Wales. Scotland is far more economically self sufficient than Wales.

My guess is that Brexit will lead to the break up of the UK anyway. And I'm sure every Leave voter on here will tell you they knew exactly what they were voting for, including this.
I think it is much of the country; 38% in the last referendum which will have risen post-Brexit given that 62% voted to remain in the EU. 38% isn't a majority but it's a heck of a lot of a country to vote for drastic measures. I bet Wales would be much lower than 38% and there certainly isn't publicised discontent coming out of Wales.

Again though, the argument that Scotland is an important part of the UK...why? What do they give to the rest of the UK that supports that argument?

Much of the literature is around why Scotland should stay in the UK or leave the UK, but no questions appear to be asked about why we are indeed a United Kingdom and given that they have political ideologies ofd holding a second referendum; I feel we should also be considering the impact of an independent Scotland and a reduced United Kingdom.

I just see that Scotland has many expensive socialist policies (prescriptions, uni fees) without the means of funding it through increased taxation. So guess what, the rest of the UK pays for it. Seems like they get a great deal to me.