final year’s independence vote was not the constitutional full stop that many pundits claimed. Scotland is still rushing for the exitsIt was the day that was supposed to resolve Scotland’s constitutional future forever,or so pundits had claimed. Scotland would reject independence in great numbers. Their very raison d’etre defeated, the Scottish National party would be consigned to irrelevance. The union would be secure for a generation or longer.
This is politics according to the “Very Serious People” of the commentariat: dramatic and lasting challenges to the prevailing political consensus are treated as impossible, and absurd,or childish fantasies. But we now know that what was supposed to happen in Scotland a year ago when far more Scots voted for independence than was originally predicted – did not advance to pass.
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Source: theguardian.com