Do you think Scotland Will Seperate From the United Kingdom?

Question

Whats your opinion, im Scottish and I Say Why not lets Go for It we need to Stand on own own 2 feet

Answer 1

It is time for independence. We could go it alone. A lot of countries with less resources than Scotland manage fine.
However, the Unionist lobby is strong and as we have seen they are pulling out all the stops to discredit the calls for independence. Isn't it strange that the Unionists disparage Scotland and say we are subsidy junkies. If we are such a strain on the UK surely they should let us go.

Answer 2

this has been going on for centuries---could Scotland stand on its own to feet, possibly, that would remain to be seen. However, this falls into the same category as will there ever be peace in the middle east, that has been going on since the days of Moses, so I don't foresee a split of Scotland and England, not in our lifetimes anyway

Answer 3

It may be that some brave Scots do decide to secede, because of England's pusillanimous response to social problems that are bubbling up to a new high in South London. Maybe some Scots may decide it is time to clean up the seedier areas of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee etc, and find that their Parliament is not able to pass the appropriate laws because of interference from England or Europe.

I am born English, but with Scots and Ulster blood. A lot of English do not realise that life is very different in Elgin when compared to Esher, and that some Scots may wish to maintain that difference. Currently, England, from Brighton to Ipswich, is becoming homogenised into a portmanteaux society speaking Estuary . Wick differs in many respects from Widnes, as does St Andrews from St Albans, and a massive gulf exists between Arbroath and 'Ackney. England, south of the Trent, is impoverishing itself culturally and intellectually, whilst Scotland is turning out Classical music composers (e.g. John Lunn; MacMillan) when the best us English can do is cover rap.

Economically, England depends increasingly on service industries, and the Esherites, working in the City in the Financial sector, grow rich, whilst the impoverished in the former industrial heartlands of Liverpool, Manchester and Tyneside resign themselves to life on sink estates and a few jobs in call-centres for the lucky.

This leads to two interesting hypotheses.

1. Scotland could make it in her own. If England can plan her survival on a service economy, and her manufacturing capacity dwindles and her oil wealth declines similarly, Scotland could do the same. An aggressively Nationalist Scots government coud harness what is left of its oil revenues, attract foreign investment, use the money to both tackle the social problems of Easterhouse etc and to create industry. Scotland still sits on large reserves of coal, the mining of which was sacrificed by an English PM in a maelstrom of political pique to smash the working class. Scotland can still make ships and steel. The Republic of Ireland is almost devoid of natural resources, but look at how she is prospering.

2. If Scotland secedes and makes a success, this could lead to England dismembering herself. Most of the English regions are virtually ignored in favour of London and the South East. Perhaps the Mancunians, Scousers, Yorkshire folk, Geordies, along with those of Devon and Cornwall, may get equally sick of the hegemony of London and decide to revolt and seek their own destinies, free from the thralldom towards Chelsea Tractors and the 'you wot!' language and concomitant duplicity of attitudes.

Watch this space!

Answer 4

Just realize you'll need a helluva lot of military power to punish England into letting you separate . If you took the diplomatic route you will be waiting 100 years for anything to happen. Just just think if Ireland had a military larger than Englands a long time ago, they probably could've got away by making Englands position desperate during WWI. Like for example England just saying " Ok theres your country, we dont need another front right next door to us when were trying to fight the Axis" That is just a pipe dream,but you really do need some in your face military action to convince the other country to do something.

Answer 5

NO - most Scots have the intelligence to realise that the country would sink without trace if it happened.

We can't produce enough of anything to feed or support the population.
Scotland would become a 'poor' country.

The SNP are dreamers and unless GB is broken up by parliament, then we'll stay part of the UK.

Answer 6

in anouther 100 years scotland will seperate from the uk due to global warming and high sea rises the only problem that will cause will be more english living in scotland.

Answer 7

eventually yes to their detriment I think and its makes you wonder how it will affect the scotch who have lived here for years and this is their home and that is a great number of people

Answer 8

Yes if you get a big stick and push it away