Interesting article from George Osborne predicting the break up of the UK
Scotland doesn't really need another referendum on Independence anyway.
All they need is Scotland having a referendum on re-joining the EU.
Different method, same outcome.
If Scotland vote in favour of that and Westminster cannot facilitate it, then we have a serious political crisis on our hands …the precedent was already set with Northern Ireland - which will not face non-tariff barriers as it will effectively remain within the EU's single market for goods. Thus it cannot be denied to Scotland.
They will simply claim it's undemocratic and indefensible for Scotland's democratic mandate to be ignored and for them to effectively be kept prisoner (in a failing country). It's probably also illegal.
How would the world react to that?
We wouldn't have a leg to stand on, as far as Crimea is concerned.
Alternatively, Scotland and Wales might advocate for staying, but only on the condition of UK re-entry to the EU.
No matter how Boris tries to play this one, he's in
checkmate.
George Osborne already admitted the same and said he will be remembered as the worst PM in British history - the one who broke the Union.
Osborne in fact advocated for simply denying Scotland any form of referendum at all.
In the famous words of JFK:
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable".
I suspect he actually did that to
increase the pressure on Boris - as Cameron and himself famously detest Boris, and vice versa.
Everyone in Europe looked on helplessly when the Tories pulled us out of EU, but they're positively aghast at the Tories tearing up of the Human Rights Bill and wrecking the Council of Europe.
Has anyone thought about how the world will react when the Tories start executing their plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people? lol!
We are slowly sliding into the lunatic fringe with Turkey, Hungary and Poland.
Compared to a few years ago - the Scottish now have an array of genuinely tangible and highly emotive economic consequences to contrast against staying in the Union.
My prediction is that Scotland will leave. They'll drop their Corporate Tax Rate, hoover up Foreign Direct Investment and Northern England will suffer the brunt of the economic fallout as business will flee over the border (and from London, no doubt).