So the 2019 UK election came in and painted the UK like this
Yellow represents the Scottish Nationalist Party, they won 47 seats out of 59 in Scotland. Blue is Conservative, Red is Labour.
The vote for Brexit in 2016 looked like this
Scotland actually managed to vote 100% in favour of remain in all the constituencies. Some won by a few %, but still, it's impressive compared to England/Wales.
For a bit of history, the last time Scotland returned a majority Government for the Tories was 1955
So we have a country that is part of a Union which repeatedly votes for the Conservatives and the largest country, England, pretty much dictates how the smaller countries in the UK will be governed. Whilst Scotland has some devolution, many matters remain reserved to Westminster in London. One important example, social security. Universal Credit (the Tories new benefit system) has destroyed the UK in the last 10 years. As is defence (the SNP and Scotland wish to denuclearise but cannot).
While I won't put too much media in the OP, here is our First Minister on the morning of the election results
Both the UK Government and the UK media are incredibly hostile to Scotland and often hold us in contempt, no matter how the Scottish people decide to vote
Right now Boris Johnson is playing hardball and stating he will never allow the Scottish people to decide again on their right to self-determination (independence). It makes the UK sound like North Korea.
The biggest issue Scotland is facing is the way the Union is setup, Westminster/England, have reign over every country and it is legally up to them whether they allow us or any other country in this Union the powers to ask their people if they wish to be independent. Yes, you might have visions of British colonialism, and you wouldn't be wrong to think such a way. This is not a union of equals and never has been.
For us to rejoin the EU we need to separate legally from the UK, this will avoid any Catalonia like situations. However, even now the point is being made around civil disobedience if the UK Government really does intend to keep saying no to the Scottish people
Yes, we voted NO in 2014, probably one of the only countries in history which would vote NO in the face of escaping British ownership. Feel free to laugh at us given our current predicament. However, some of that vote went to the Better Together campaign which told Scottish people if they voted NO, they'd stay in the EU with the UK, guaranteed (versus an independent Scotland reapplying) and Scottish Labour who backed NO, also implied they'd fight to deliver Scots a progressive Labour Government in England. Corbyn has just been humiliated and he's the most progressive Labour leader I've seen in my lifetime. The UK is leaving the EU even though Scotland was told to stay inside the UK to stay in the EU.
Thankfully now though some in Scottish Labour, a party which has been wiped out in Scotland, understand the tides are shifting
I understand Americans, and many others in Europe have their own political battles to fight, but the UK is a very interesting political study right now, with how divided Scotland is from the rUK. I would hope us Scots could get some international support from like-minded progressives and campaigners who can lend their verbal support to us leaving this broken UK Union. Hopefully we can return to the EU where things were better, or would be better, than a Tory-led Britain outside of EU protections/laws currently begging Donald Trump for a trade deal.
English people who support Brexit and support the Conservatives can celebrate all they like, if they actually support democracy they should have the ability to see how Scotland wants different from the UK and not keep being so hostile to us leaving. The cynic in me has always felt the main reason the UK wants to keep Scotland is oil/gas, much like the reason for the US/UK to go kill hundreds of thousands in Iraq was about oil.
If Scottish Oil/Gas had been better managed over the decades by the Conservatives, and the few Labour Governments we've had, maybe the UK would be sitting on here
Yes, there's Norway, a country with the same population size as Scotland, 5 million, sitting in 3rd with over 1 billion in assets thanks to their Oil. Makes you think. The UK is currently something like 1.3 trillion in debt.
People in the UK always screaming "Scotland can't go alone", would be best to pay attention
Now cue the Braveheart gifs and sign the petition
Yellow represents the Scottish Nationalist Party, they won 47 seats out of 59 in Scotland. Blue is Conservative, Red is Labour.
The vote for Brexit in 2016 looked like this
Scotland actually managed to vote 100% in favour of remain in all the constituencies. Some won by a few %, but still, it's impressive compared to England/Wales.
For a bit of history, the last time Scotland returned a majority Government for the Tories was 1955
So we have a country that is part of a Union which repeatedly votes for the Conservatives and the largest country, England, pretty much dictates how the smaller countries in the UK will be governed. Whilst Scotland has some devolution, many matters remain reserved to Westminster in London. One important example, social security. Universal Credit (the Tories new benefit system) has destroyed the UK in the last 10 years. As is defence (the SNP and Scotland wish to denuclearise but cannot).
While I won't put too much media in the OP, here is our First Minister on the morning of the election results
Both the UK Government and the UK media are incredibly hostile to Scotland and often hold us in contempt, no matter how the Scottish people decide to vote
Right now Boris Johnson is playing hardball and stating he will never allow the Scottish people to decide again on their right to self-determination (independence). It makes the UK sound like North Korea.
The biggest issue Scotland is facing is the way the Union is setup, Westminster/England, have reign over every country and it is legally up to them whether they allow us or any other country in this Union the powers to ask their people if they wish to be independent. Yes, you might have visions of British colonialism, and you wouldn't be wrong to think such a way. This is not a union of equals and never has been.
For us to rejoin the EU we need to separate legally from the UK, this will avoid any Catalonia like situations. However, even now the point is being made around civil disobedience if the UK Government really does intend to keep saying no to the Scottish people
Yes, we voted NO in 2014, probably one of the only countries in history which would vote NO in the face of escaping British ownership. Feel free to laugh at us given our current predicament. However, some of that vote went to the Better Together campaign which told Scottish people if they voted NO, they'd stay in the EU with the UK, guaranteed (versus an independent Scotland reapplying) and Scottish Labour who backed NO, also implied they'd fight to deliver Scots a progressive Labour Government in England. Corbyn has just been humiliated and he's the most progressive Labour leader I've seen in my lifetime. The UK is leaving the EU even though Scotland was told to stay inside the UK to stay in the EU.
Thankfully now though some in Scottish Labour, a party which has been wiped out in Scotland, understand the tides are shifting
I understand Americans, and many others in Europe have their own political battles to fight, but the UK is a very interesting political study right now, with how divided Scotland is from the rUK. I would hope us Scots could get some international support from like-minded progressives and campaigners who can lend their verbal support to us leaving this broken UK Union. Hopefully we can return to the EU where things were better, or would be better, than a Tory-led Britain outside of EU protections/laws currently begging Donald Trump for a trade deal.
English people who support Brexit and support the Conservatives can celebrate all they like, if they actually support democracy they should have the ability to see how Scotland wants different from the UK and not keep being so hostile to us leaving. The cynic in me has always felt the main reason the UK wants to keep Scotland is oil/gas, much like the reason for the US/UK to go kill hundreds of thousands in Iraq was about oil.
If Scottish Oil/Gas had been better managed over the decades by the Conservatives, and the few Labour Governments we've had, maybe the UK would be sitting on here
Yes, there's Norway, a country with the same population size as Scotland, 5 million, sitting in 3rd with over 1 billion in assets thanks to their Oil. Makes you think. The UK is currently something like 1.3 trillion in debt.
People in the UK always screaming "Scotland can't go alone", would be best to pay attention
Now cue the Braveheart gifs and sign the petition
