Should a re-vote be called?
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If Scotland votes yes, we have a lot of uncertainty as to what is going to happen in the next 18 months.
When the terms and conditions have been worked out, what would be the case for rUK and Scotland having a vote on do we accept them?
The vote would be something like.
Do you accept the terms of Scottish independence?
YES
NO.
IF no Scotland returns to the UK!
When the terms and conditions have been worked out, what would be the case for rUK and Scotland having a vote on do we accept them?
The vote would be something like.
Do you accept the terms of Scottish independence?
YES
NO.
IF no Scotland returns to the UK!
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Good idea.
Whatever the outcome of the vote for independence, the UK government will acknowledge their decision.
This is of course one of the issues with the independence debate - Alex Salmond has wanted independence but has not thought how it would work in practice.
Personally I do not think Scotland will find it easy - it will be indebted, a slower economy, high taxes. It might even happen that in a couple of decades Scotland will want to return to the UK - just as happened when James VI of Scotland became James
Regardless of that opinion - if the Scottish decide to leave the UK - then that decision stands.
Agreed but will the rUK and Scottish people agree to the terms.
These will effect everyone in the UK not just Scotland.
Are we saying independence at any cost?
It would be too important not to that's why.
Is that possible?
They need to grow some balls and just stick with their decision.
The vote would be for the whole of the UK not just Scotland. The terms would effect citizens south of the border!
The rUK may say yes and kick Scotland out anyway!
Sounds like something the EU would approve of.
This is all hypothetical, that the public will have any say, the UK government will be handling the negotiations with the Scottish. I can't remember much public involvement in negotiations, the government will just go ahead and make the decisions for us, as the UK representative. Besides, a referendum takes a lot of resources and time to get organised, it took years in the making for the Scottish Referendum, it very unlikely that an referendum would be organised in the space of a couple of months after a possible independence.
What the Scottish referendum means, is a mandate or will of the Scottish people for independence. The UK being the democracy that it is, won't go against the wishes of the people of Scotland. This doesn't mean the UK government will give Scotland whatever it wants.
However there are certain conditions that both sides will not agree on, for example the Currency Union. It will still boil down to the best interests of their own country, as each will be separate nations.
there will be a currency union, they just won't call it a currency union, to save Westminster blushes.
monetary partnership, shadowing, something like that
No. They should lie in their bed, and accept their fate.
That's a very big assumption, when the UK government has already said "no" to it twice. They don't have to agree to such an arrangement.
I think, and I hope, you are dreaming.
I would be completely against that. And I'm not joking either.
No their wont be. The referendum needed to implement it would be lost in the UK. Any matter of such constitutional importance is put to referendums, and with a massive public opinion against any form of currency union in the rUK its a certainty to be lost.
If this is the case then could the next general election, which may have nothing to do with Scotland be decided by policies that are all about Scotland?
Will Scotland have an advantage in negotiations as the people they are negotiating with might not be the ones who ultimately agree to things?
Scotland wouldn't have left the UK, so the question of "accepting it back" doesn't arise.
Good grief.
How many times does it need to be said before it finally sinks it that there will NOT be a currency union?