I'm highly in favour of the union remaining, with devolution revoked and a return to the days of the Scottish office, simply because it's simple, avoids constitutional confusion and wastes less money.
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Originally Posted by Deffeh
However, whether people like it or not, the truth is the center ground in Scotland is considerably left of the center ground in Britain as a whole. Scotland as an independant country wouldnt have gone to war with America in Iraq, is a pretty prominent example.
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This is absurd. Just because Britain votes in absurd right wing governments, doesn't mean the Scottish can't vote in equally absurd left wing ones, like that libdem/labour coalition you have. Crap governments are crap governments whatever wing they are on.
Talk of Independence/devolution from my point of view is just a gimmick to gain votes by playing on nationalism, and nothing more. Ultimately it's a move that would be utterly counterproductive for both sides of the border, probably less so for England economically but more so on the international stage. Scotland would probably come out the better of the two if I had to make a choice.
The fact that labour even allowed the suggestion of devolution in the first place is scandalous.